Original Broadcast: 4.10.15 Oracle Exadata Database Machine combines hardware and software to accelerate performance, increase capacity, and improve efficiency and quality of service for database deployments. This session will provide an overview of the updated Exadata hardware and in depth analysis of the latest features of the Exadata storage server software. Learn how to utilize…

In this session, we will learn the new functionality introduced in Oracle Database 12c, Global Data Services. Oracle Global Data Services extends the concept of Services which primarily has been used for workload management in Oracle Real Application clusters (RAC), to a globally replicated deployment configuration that includes multiple data centers. It supports Services to…

This session will illustrate how the features of the latest release of Oracle Database 12cR1 (12.1.0.2) promise potentially immense performance improvements for application workloads. We will review some actual examples of how implementing the new In-Memory Column Store (IMCS) offers revolutionary improvements in query execution time without any code changes. We will also demonstrate how…

Many software vendors are relying on software audits as a revenue stream and as a result software audits have been increasing significantly over the past few years.   The findings from these audits have put significant financial strain on companies.  Ignoring software compliance and hoping that you will not be audited is a false hope putting…

This presentation discusses the results from a Naval Postgraduate School report that evaluated the Oracle Cloudera solution for big data in the context of a U.S. Marine Corps logistics project. The team began with a Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop cluster and an Oracle Database. After evaluating the initial architecture, they then evaluated how the Oracle…

For Businesses to be successful, mission critical system integrations need to be flexible, efficient and easy to monitor and maintain. This session shows how a leading North American advanced biofuels producer used Oracle SOA Suite to successfully integrate JD Edwards, Oracle Transportation Management, Commodity Trading Risk Management and Third-Party systems. This session begins with an…

Enterprises are spending significant amount of time and money on cloning and refreshing data from production environments for development and test purposes. Enterprise Manager 12c provides a comprehensive data cloning and refresh solution. This session will discuss: - Details of the end to end automation and management provided that includes the ability to mask sensitive…

Original Broadcast: Thursday, April 2, 2015

High performance databases built on Oracle Database 12c require advanced storage systems designed with database workloads in mind. Learn how Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance advanced in-memory architecture combined with unique co-engineered integration delivers superior performance, efficiency, and streamlined management, reducing database and storage footprint, complexity, risk, and total cost of ownership.

Featured Speaker: Doug Chamberlain, Principal Product Manager, ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle

This session discusses how to get the most of your RAC environment now, including ongoing best practices delivered via Automatic Healthchecks as well as the latest in tools that Oracle Support recommends for monitoring, diagnosing and preventing problems in your environment.   The session will go into Oracle's OraChk utility, with input on the team that…

A SQL statement that calls a PL/SQL function is slower than one that defines the same result by using only SQL expressions. The culprit is the SQL to PL/SQL round-trip. Its cost can be reduced by marking the function deterministic, by invoking it in a scalar subquery, by using the PL/SQL function result cache, or…