Why are books like "Advanced Oracle Utilities: The Definitive Reference" imperative for today’s DBA’s and senior developers? The answer: Oracle has become so robust and complex; where many new features are implemented not as SQL commands, but as either PL/SQL packages and/or stand alone utilities. Thus to best leverage all that Oracle has to offer,…

There are several Oracle Database security options that are available to secure the environment and provide data protection from unauthorized access. In creating a database environment that is available as a service, the security should be built in for deployment. The Database Cloud changes how the role of the DBA manages and implements security. This…

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service combines the renowned power of the Exadata database platform with the operational simplicity and pay-as-you-grow economics of the cloud. With Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service, you can run your Oracle Databases in the Oracle Public Cloud with the same functionality, performance, and availability experienced by thousands of organizations deploying Exadata…

Version management of the PL/SQL source code in the Oracle Database 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 avoid writing code in PL/SQL

In this presentation you will learn how you can use Git, the prominent open source version control software built for distributed teams, to manage your PL/SQL source code in the Oracle Database. Using these techniques you can manage your source code in the Oracle Database just like any other development team manages their file based code base written in languages like Java, JavaScript or C#.

Companies today ‘breathe’ data, and it is one of the most important assets of any business. The DBA stands at a critical juncture as both guardian and gatekeeper of this lifeblood. As gatekeeper the DBA has an often under-appreciated potential as enabler and information hub. Working from this premise the session discusses this mindset and…

As the complexities of Oracle solutions continue to grow, providing IT environments a simplified way to automate key processes of software delivery and changes within IT infrastructure is of utmost importance. With the use of containers, system administrators, database administrators, and software developers can take advantage of delivering Oracle databases and their closely tied applications…

Oracle Enterprise Manager is one of the most versatile manageability tool in the market helping enterprises to monitor and enabling Application-to-Disk management  through a single pane of glass for all data center components.As an Enterprise Manager administrator you are responsible of a wide variety of tasks including discovering and maintaining targets, deploying plugins, tuning OEM…

One important thing the cloud (r)evolution has already brought is the switch from thinking in classic physical terms, to more (cloud) service based thinking.But just how do you model a (cloud) service in Enterprise Manager? And how can you get the right level of detail information (dashboards) from those without over-alerting or over-monitoring the various…

The importance of adequate code management is well-understood by anybody in the IT. Unfortunately, the practical implementation of this concept is usually left to be defined by managers and administrators, while people who actually write code (i.e. developers) are kept outside of the discussion and just being told what to do. As a result, too…

While APEX 5.0 was primarily focused on developer productivity and creating modern user interfaces, APEX 5.1 will be a huge leap in end user productivity. See how the Interactive Grid will bring dynamic, rich-client reporting and multi-row editing capabilities to your APEX applications and how the new, powerful charting engine - based on Oracle’s own JavaScript…