William Hardie, Vice President of Oracle Database Product Management, recently shared that customers who are wishing to utilize the Machine Learning, Spatial, and Graph features of Oracle Database are no longer required to purchase additional licenses. This is keeping with Oracle's mission to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities. 

The editors of SELECT Journal are excited to launch the Best Practices Tips and Tricks Contest. In previous years, the editors of SELECT have compiled the best and most practical tips and tricks from users and experts in the Oracle Database community to publish in the annual Best Practice Tip Booklet. We are excited to tell you that we are moving forward to bring you this series again in 2020!

Previously, SELECT published Why Your Database is Not Secure: A Prelude to the COLLABORATE 2019 Session. Over the next few weeks, I thought I would dive in a little deeper into the subject of database security based on that session. The presentation had four topic areas based on the time, effort, risk, and costs to perform. This article provides an overview on three areas that I believe are the lowest in time, effort, risks, and costs. I call these “Easy Pickings.”

Data Guard is one of the best high availability solutions for the mission-critical database, which provides zero data loss, which falls under Maximum Availability Architecture. We know that there is no change in creating a physical standby database and configuring Data Guard broker procedure since 10g except a few minor changes. In this article, we will deploy standby creation and configuration of Data Guard broker completely through Ansible. We find Ansible to be one of the best simple IT solutions of DevOps.

Gartner recently released a list of its top 10 strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond, and it covered topics like artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, digital innovation, and more.

Oracle is offering Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts on Oracle Digital Training! Users groups can enjoy 50 percent savings on all Oracle University digital learning and exam vouchers for Oracle product and cloud learning offerings from November 29, 2o19, through December 31, 2019.