As more businesses are adopting agile development methodology, frequent deployment of production changes is the norm. This places unrealistic testing expectations, often resulting in incomplete testing thereby impacting to production instability. Additionally, it is cumbersome and expensive to provision a test system with current data set to perform realistic testing. However, Real Application Testing introduces…

Oracle Solaris systems running Oracle Database are ideal for running mission-critical applications that require high performance, best-in-class availability, unmatched scalability, and high consolidation density. This session provides an overview of the unique capabilities of Oracle Solaris servers and how to optimize your configuration for the best-possible performance. It presents tuning tips for reliable performance in…

Business applications—whether mobile, on-premises, or in the cloud—are the lifeline of any organization. Don’t let even planned outage events such as application upgrades or database/OS migrations hinder customer sales and acquisitions or adversely affect your employees’ productivity. In this session, hear how organizations today are using Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle Applications such as Oracle E-Business…

Transitioning your data center to an on-demand, self-service cloud management model will improve your ability to respond quickly to business needs, increase the utilization and ROI of IT resources, and enhance IT operations. However, many organizations are struggling to determine how they can make the transition. This session covers key planning and architecture considerations such…

Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CDT Is your exploding data growth consuming your IT budget and bogging down your response time? Did you know you can use a private cloud to enhance your current consolidation strategies? Imagine better scalability and reliability without significant downtime to implement, a 50% lower TCO, and…

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 The tripod of Oracle database as a service (DBaaS) rests on the strong legs of Oracle Multitenant as the enabling database architecture; Oracle Enterprise Manager for orchestration; and Oracle’s engineered systems, such as Oracle Exadata and Oracle SuperCluster, as the consolidation platforms. This total solution from a single vendor is unmatched.…

Do I have enough memory? Why is my free memory so low? Am I swapping to disk? Can I increase my SGA (db cache) size? Can I add another instance to this server? Are my system resources used optimally? These are all questions that often haunt DBAs. This presentation is The Answer. It covers in…

In this session we explore the promise of near linear scalability that Oracle RAC makes. We investigate several common problems in detail and present solutions that are transparent to the application. Cache fusion contention, write-write contention, application partitioning and indexing are some of the topics discussed.

In memory database option is the most significant new feature in 12c database. It has the ability to make problems disappear with a single switch. It's as close as possible to fast=true parameter everyone is looking for.Question is, how to you find which tables need this feature the most. How do you find the tables…

A case study of an a-typical SSD implementation.  We were able to make use of our existing SAN by adding a flash storage tier.  We will discuss the problem and how the problem was addressed.  Plenty of charts/stats to highlight a very impressive result.  This is a real world implementation in our highly available production…