Database as a Service Enters the Enterprise Mainstream: Survey on Database Cloud Executive Summary

If you’re an Oracle Forms user, you must be stuck at a crossroad:  Should you migrate your Oracle Forms systems to new technologies, hibernate and do nothing hoping that these systems will not fail in the future, or start thinking about the next generation of the existing system with Forms 12c, and modernize existing applications…

Are you looking to accelerate both Data Warehouses and mixed workload OLTP databases? Do your availability and scalability requirements suggest using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) or have you may be standardized on Oracle RAC? Then this session is for you. Based on a brief overview of the latest version of Oracle Database In-Memory and…

The next version of Oracle Database will include features as revolutionary as the 12cR1 release. While much of this newest release is still being extensively beta-tested, this presentation will discuss some of its most intriguing new feature sets and what they mean to a typical Oracle DBA. And while everyone involved with Oracle knows the…

In the seven years since Oracle released the Real Application Testing (RAT) suite as part of release 11.1.0.7, this powerful set of diagnostic tools has received significant upgrades. This session will illustrate how the latest version of RAT in Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 is still a primary contender in the battle to identify potential bottlenecks in application performance before any database is migrated / upgraded to a newer version. We will offer some real-world examples of how to best to leverage RAT’s several new features in 12.1.0.2, including Workload Intelligence, Workload Scale-Up, and Consolidated Database Replay, as well as its original key features – Database Capture and Replay (DBCR) and SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA) -to avoid unnecessary application performance regression, especially when transitioning to Oracle Database 12c.

If you’re new to Big Data analytics or looking to try new technologies Spark is one to watch. Spark performs anywhere from 10x faster on disk and 100x faster in memory than MapReduce. These significant gains in performance could provide your company the capacity to take a deeper look into your business, or simply save…

This session is part of Oaktable World at COLLABORATE 16. Come find out what Dan Norris has to say about IPv6, Linux and Exadata!

Oracle Database Appliance has specific and unique capabilities that make it an ideal consolidation platform for organizations. The Oracle Appliance Kit software shipped on Oracle Database Appliance contains tools for managing the lifecycle of the appliance from initial deployment of the operating system, firmware, Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database software to patching and upgrade…

The terms Big Data, NoSQL and IoT are on every Database related technical article but what do they really mean for you, the Oracle professional? Come hear from a longtime Oracle ACE what they really mean and how they will affect your future. Includes some practical advice from the speaker on how to learn, use…

A database is a database, right? Wrong! Come learn from someone with the scars how the new NoSQL kids on the block want to grow up to become a SQL database, and how Big Daddy Oracle wants to skate with the database upstarts. As part of this talk, we will learn just enough to understand…