As the tools landscape gets overrun with more development tools and buzzwords it becomes less clear when and why we should use what. This session will give an overview of the Oracle development tools landscape. We will discuss each tool, the benefits and drawbacks and which tool is suitable for which type of application. We…

Migration to the cloud is a process that takes significant planning and effort. In this session learn about migration from Oracle Database On-Premise to the Oracle Database Cloud, including examples and techniques for easy migration.

Containers have taken the IT world by storm, and for good reason. The reduction in setup time, administration time, and resource consumption that containers provide makes a very strong case for using container technologies throughout the data center. Docker can be used to containerize many applications, including the Oracle Database. While Oracle Database is not…

EDB Postgres Platform 2017 provides a robust, scalable, and highly available data management solution that supports the PL/SQL standard and offers Oracle customers a way to leverage an open source based solution to lower costs while maintaining compatibility with their existing Oracle DBMS footprint. We'll cover not only the EDB Postgres Advanced Server DBMS, but also…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) automates many of the mundane administrative tasks required to run a database. However, migrating an existing database to the Cloud can be a tricky problem, often requiring an extended outage. In this session learn how you can leverage the AWS Database Migration Service to migrate your Oracle database to RDS with minimal downtime.…

The AWR provides a plethora of information. Many times DBAs and perforance analysts will become overwhelmed with the shear amount of data presented. Thie presentation will provide a glimpse of ten or more performance robbing statistics and indicators that every analyst should check for when reviewing AWR reports.

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…

In this presentation, we will review ASM , high level overview of ASM files, disks, ASM extents, and allocation units etc. Then we will review a few of ASM header structures and how ASM identifies the disks etc. We will dump headers using few tools and show the output of those dumps. We will explore…

Every DBA is very familiar with the Oracle database LISTENER process tnslnr that is required to be running to allow remote connections to the database.  Over the years there has been a number of enhancements, and changes to the process of how a connection is created, but it all starts with the LISTENER process and…