This presentation will cover how to properly virtualize any business critical application with specifics on databases.  A database is a very resource intensive by its very nature and one of the most resource intensive applications you will ever virtualize. If it is not done correctly you will not be successful. This presentation will teach you…

Original Broadcast: February 26, 2015 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CDT Shouldn’t applications that are critical to your business be treated differently from internet video downloads? To conventional storage systems they are all the same. Learn how the new Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System uses patented Quality of Service Plus to place data across flash…

Oracle 10g introduced Data Masking to hide sensitive data. It is primarily designed to be used when copying data from production to non-production environments. Oracle 12c Data Redaction can be used to partially obscure or completely hide sensitive data when the information is displayed on a screen or a printed report.This presentation will first contrast…

Enterprise applications must provide reasonable performance on a large scale. One of the most important ideas in application development is to build instrumentation into applications to enable performance tracking and tuning. Oracle ADF provides multiple mechanisms for instrumenting and tracking performance. This session will show different options for Oracle ADF instrumentation and how they might…

Attendees are introduced to the new and improved features of Oracle 12c that directly impact application development. Special emphasis is placed on features that reduce development time, make development simpler, improve performance, or speed deployment. Specific topics include: IDENTITY columns, improved SEQUENCEs, INVISIBLE columns, improved defaults, JSON enablement, APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT function, security enhancements, PL/SQL interoperability improvements,…

Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) was often described as the “killer feature” of Oracle 11gR2 and it has been enhanced in Oracle 12c. EBR was developed to drastically reduce downtime required when updating Oracle E-Business Suite’s. Using EBR your organization can provide an “Online Application Upgrade” eliminating or drastically-reducing outages due to PL/SQL software upgrades and even changes…

Original Broadcast: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Looking for IT consolidation or the ability to deploy a complete application on a single system? The new Oracle Database Appliance X5-2 has more resources that provides the ability to rapidly and simply deploy a highly available database in hours with a single command.  Join us to learn why…

Moving ASM database files of any kind in various scenarios is presented with the purpose to discuss the various utilities, tools, PL/SQL supplied packages, SQL API, Enterprise Manager Cloud Control visualization, and an array of methods and techniques available in order to accomplish this task successfully and appropriately in each scenario. This session establishes the…

Back by popular demand;  the purpose of this presentation is Inform the audience how to be a proactive DBA by simply using this new tool. This tool and my presentation will help database administrators provide to their customers a way to reduce the cost of ownership by reducing the time to trouble shoot anomalies. It will also help…

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