The ecosystem of the Oracle Real Applications Cluster (RAC) gives lots of space for creative solutions, optimized concepts and --- intelligent questions! The Grid Infrastructure framework is highly flexible, ASM opens many performant and safe options of mass storage administration and RAC is the measure for scalable database power in the market. But every single…

Diagnosing and resolving Oracle RAC database problems has required extensive knowledge not only of database internals but networking, storage and O/S interactions. Frequently, these issues needed to be escalated to Oracle Support Services delaying their resolution. New in Oracle Database 12c / Rel. 2 is the Cluster Health Advisor that continuously analyses database ASH/AWR data…

In this session we will share some of our experience on upgrading different versions of Oracle databases to the  latest Oracle 12c. Attend this session you will learn the upgrade tools and various upgrade paths that help you plan your upcoming database upgrades. This will include upgrade methods for multitenant databases.  Another focus area of this…

Have you every wondered what it takes to BLOG about technology? This Quick Tip will cover how to start BLOGing, from what not to say, though the process of editing and publishing your BLOG using a few free tools. Presenter: Erik Benner, Enterprise Architect, Mythics

Part of a DBA's job is diagnosis of database issues and the detection of potential issues that adversely affect the performance Oracle database systems. Both databases and Operation Systems have become more complex.  Add in clustered systems such as RAC and it becomes quite difficult to manually find all the relevant bits of information required to…

Nobody likes surprises when it comes to database upgrades and migrations. Because the upgrade or migration usually is not complicated by itself, the most important task is ensuring good performance afterward. This presentation discusses a straightforward, step-by-step approach to ensure not only plan stability but also proper testing; secret tweaks; and helpful tips and tricks…

What you wanted to know about the Alert Log all the time. A contribution about formats, contents, versions and differences. We will learn about different tools and also, what we can't see from this famous log file. The lecture also includes a quick overview about the components of an Oracle Database System. This allows the listener to…

Learn the how and why of running Oracle on Windows, and some tricks to help you along the way.  This session will benefit the Beginner to Mid-Level Oracle DBA faced with running Oracle on a Windows Server, and may also teach some old hands a trick or two.  Instead of delving into topics that would…

Learn how you can setup Data Guard in easy 1-2-3 steps.  Attendees will learn what is new in Oracle Data Guard 12.2.  In addition to demonstrating how simple it is to setup Data Guard, this session will disseminate fundamental Data Guard best practices and reference architectures that DBAs need to know to protect their Oracle…

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 offers so many new features that only a panel of Oracle ACEs can do them justice. In this session Oracle ACEs Jim Czuprynski, Anuj Mohan , Kai Yu and Seth Miller  from IOUG will discuss about key new features introduced in Oracle 12c R2 . We will share our experience…