Original Broadcast: June 8, 2017 Version management of the PL/SQL source code has always been challenging. Database programmers lack the tools and utilities that make version control easy for developers who code with file based programming languages such as Java and JavaScript. In fact, this is one of the primary reasons why large software teams…

Original Broadcast: May 25, 2017 Hey ZFS Storage Admins! Are you running the latest 8.7 OS with your ZFS Storage Appliance? Are you wondering if your current ZFS Storage drives, enclosures, controllers, cards and other hardware components will work with the newest release? Well, if you are... join us in this exhilarating webcast to learn…

Original Broadcast: May 2, 2017 IT organizations running Oracle RAC are faced with a wide range of choices to evaluate when considering a move to new infrastructure. Flash Storage is growing rapidly but what benefits does it bring to Oracle? What are the key best practices to follow to ensure a balanced configuration which can…

Original Broadcast: April 27, 2017 As DBAs already know, storage responsiveness is critical to database performance. Unfortunately, most storage arrays are unaware of database workload requirements and treat all I/Os the same. To solve these challenges, Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol (OISP) was introduced with Oracle Database 12c With OISP, the database sends hints to Oracle…

Original Broadcast: April 26, 2017 Featured Speaker: Gary Crisci | Download Slide Deck | | Download Recording |

Original Broadcast: April 26, 2017 I've been working to bring Exadata into Walgreens Boots Alliance EMEA since mid 2015. The first workloads are now live and we're planning other ones.    WBA is the world's largest pharmacy-led pharmaceutical company, with nearly 500,000 employees, globally, working in at least 45 countries.    The level of technical…

Original Broadcast: April 25, 2017
Exadata has become one of the most popular Database machine recently and I have seen a lot of Exadata customer trying to Implement Exadata themselves. Customers have many reasons to implement Exadata by themselves but most of the time its money, they think it’s too expensive to hire a True Exadata Consultant. It’s important to understand that there is a different between Exadata Migration and Exadata Implementation and If you don’t have skills to implement Exadata in-house, most like your will end up just doing a data migration. Not only, you will not achieve extreme performance from your Exadata Machine, you will not get good return on your investment due to higher utilization of Hardware Resources.