What’s next for career Database Administrators (DBAs) in 5, 10 or 15 years? If you are a DBA, what should be your next career move?  Whether you would like to remain technical, or make a lateral career move into another area of IT e.g. Leadership, what will be your career path? In this session we…

Business Intelligence development teams strive for Agile development but often fail because migration between environments can be tedious and time consuming. But now the problem of disruptive environment migration can be eliminated by having seamless environment integration. How do you achieve seamless environment integration? By implementing Continuous Integration Tools in combination with Business Intelligence Tools.…

The goal of this presentation is to help people understand Usability - what it is and isn’t. Attendees will learn that it is not a test of the user, but a test of the product and how it differs from other software testing. In this presentation we will debunk false statements such as “Usability testing…

Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CDT If you’re like most Oracle technology professionals, you feel increasing pressure from your company to increase the speed of software deployment and limit downtime. Did you know that there are Oracle tools to help you quickly deploy complex software assemblies with just a click of…

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CDT Part 1 of this webinar set discussed the performance challenges caused by plan instability. Using SQL profiles and SQL patches are mechanisms that can provide targeted relief to individual SQL statements that have plan regressions. However, Oracle provides SQL Plan Management features that are intended…

Protecting the mission-critical data that resides on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a top priority. The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is ideally suited for this task due to superior performance, enhanced reliability, extreme network bandwidth, powerful features, simplified management and cost-efficient configurations. Come learn how the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance can fulfill your data…

Original Broadcast: 9.2.2014 Oracle ZFS Storage has an ideal architecture for consolidating virtual server environments.  To take better advantage of this, we have just released a set of VMware Storage API integrations (SRA, vSphere client, VAAI NAS primitives).  Join us to get a look at what we've done so far, and to be part of…

Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CDT Until now, storage has always been a major bottleneck for delivering application SLAs and DBA productivity.  Eliminate the constant application and infrastructure tuning required to meet the SLAs and inefficiency & overhead involved with large copies required for production, Dev/Test and analytics & reporting with…

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CDT Do you know every aspect of your Oracle database? From each parameter, to the data health, down to the data block level? If you did and you were able to stay on top of all those details when a crisis occurred, would you immediately have…

Original Broadcast: 10.28.2014 Big data promises big benefits to your organization, but real barriers exist in achieving these benefits. Today’s big data projects face serious challenges in terms of skills, application integration, and security. Oracle Big Data SQL radically reduces these barriers to entry, by providing unified query and management of data in Oracle Database,…