Oracle Database 12c introduced an exciting new feature called Flex Automatic Storage Management (Flex ASM) that can dramatically enhance key areas in clustering and manageability. These enhancements benefit customers managing dynamic and flexible environments, often associated with cloud computing, as well as Oracle’s engineered systems. This session presents an overview of Flex ASM and related…

Raise your hand if you've heard this: "It takes too long to deliver new content with Oracle Business Intelligence". While in practice this statement is basically true, the goal of this presentation is to prove that it doesn't have to be. Continuous Integration is the practice of integrating, testing and deploying automatically as part of the…

A successful real-time BI implementation involves integrating the logical and physical model, source and target databases, ETL subsystems, and front-end dashboards and reports. Agile methodologies often struggle to deliver real-time implementations due to the complexity of the intermingled moving parts. Using the Oracle Information Management Reference Architecture as a backdrop, attendees will see how to…

Session about potential unexpected problem and issues you can hit during patching your exadata. What things should be done in advance to avoid frustration and dissappointment.

The subject is how to prolong life for your exadata when it has exhausted all capacity and cannot support existing load. I am going to discuss about upgrading,expanding and reconfiguring exadata machines. In one case it could be old exadata which is replaced by a newer version and in another case it could be a…

A little used feature of Oracle Databases is the ability to create a virtual database using application contexts. This feature not only allows creation of a virtual database, limiting the rows of data visible to various user classes, but can also be used to manipulate the values of data columns in an efficient manner. This…

When I wrote Optimizing OraclePerformance with Jeff Holt back in 2003, my goal was to define areliable, teachable method for fixing software performance problems. After a few months of contentment after finishing the project, I began to notice a trend in how people were responding to it. Many of the questions coming in had started to…

While High Availability is critical to our jobs, the cost of licensing may be prohibitive.  Alternative methods for standby databases, real time logical database propagation, and real time replication to diverse platforms without sticker shock will be presented.  These are compatible with Standard Edition of Oracle, Standard One, or even Oracle XE – greatly reducing…

Flash disk and/or SSD technology options have been creeping into Oracle database deployments more and more. Oracle ACE Bert Scalzo will present the many and significantly different alternatives for utilizing flash disk and/or SSD in Oracle deployments. Moreover Oracle 11g and 12c features supporting or best utilizing such flash will be reviewed. Knowing what's out…

There's been a lot of buzz about Oracle 12c's new IN MEMORY COLUMN STORE. Oracle ACE Bert Scalzo will share experience and conclusions from benchmarking this new feature against more traditional SGA memory allocations and 11g Database Smart Flash Cache. The findings, scripts and conclusions from this exercise will be shared. Benchmarking Oracle 12c IN MEMORY COLUMN STORE Benchmarking…