This will be a moderated Panel involving industry practitioners, Oracle Product Managers and implementers. This interactive panel will allow audience to ask questions ahead of time time as well as during the panel. The session will cover the Cloud Computing industry landscape covering IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Coverage will be given to new products like…

Pluggable databases are “not your mother’s database”.   Efficient use of a pluggable database requires attention to not only the SQL being used to access the data in the pluggable database; but also components of the container database and even the structure of both the pluggable and container database.   In a multi-tenant environment, the DBA for the pluggable database might not even have access to the underlying container.  Learn how to use different tools and techniques to ensure your databases are making optimal use of available resources.

Many techies resist side two of the database administration portfolio. Side one is doing the work; side two is documenting what you did. This presentation will instill a sense of responsibility to help erase the "where no person has gone before" syndrome. Technologists owe it to their colleagues to ensure what they do makes it easier for those who follow in the wake of what they have just done.

The time-to-market of many interventions, be one a developer or a DBA, can be shortened by light years if all participants take the time to share with their followers their successes and how they got there.

In the midst of all of the Oracle Cloud buzz and the release of new PaaS/iPaaS offerings such as Integration Cloud Service and SOA Cloud Service, Oracle also put out a new release of Oracle SOA Suite 12c Release 2 in late 2015, as part of a larger Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1) release, which included…

Original Broadcast: February 3, 2016 Join Oracle's experts in Oracle Database acceleration to learn about the M7 processor's revolutionary approach of optimizing SQL queries through Data Analytics Accelerators (DAX) in silicon. They will provide examples of how to use the DAX capabilities to run Oracle Database In-Memory queries much more efficiently, and talk about how the…

Learn how to use Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) to rapidly develop and deploy Web 2.0 applications for desktop and mobile. Oracle APEX leverages SQL and PL/SQL to exploit the power of the Oracle Database Cloud. The declarative, web-browser development environment is tailor-made for the cloud. Further learn how Application Express enables you to design, develop…

The new In-Memory-Option of the Oracle Database is widely talked about. But how do the In-Memory components of the database really work? Is In-Memory really so transparent as we are told? And why/why not? This lecture has its focus on "the idea behind" and is intended to be understandable for less experienced or part-time DBAs. Learn, why…

Original Broadcast: Monday, December 14, 2015 The world's most popular open source database provides a free, open source database management system that is easy to install, manage and maintain. MySQL is fast, extremely reliable and widely deployed by many throughout the world. In fact, many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations such as Facebook, Google,…

Developers need data and environments cloned from production, for coding, for testing, for quality control and performance.  Ideally, each developer should have their own full private environment, representing a full stack of database, app-servers, and web-servers, private to themselves, to allow each to work without interfering with another.  In other words, their own complete build…

 Original Broadcast: Thursday, December 3, 2015 Despite the best efforts of DBA’s everywhere, eventually every organization experiences unplanned downtime from system failure. The difference between the response of successful organizations and those that suffer disastrous consequences is how they prepare for these situations. A strong backup and recovery strategy can mean millions of dollars in difference.…