Upgrading an Oracle Database provides an excellent and unique opportunity to improve database security and implement new security features. This session will highlight Oracle Database 11g and the next generation of the Oracle database security enhancements and new security features that can be implemented during a database upgrade with minimal effort or risk. A framework…

Original Boradcast: 4.23.2014 Oracle Database Administrators have traditionally been challenged in analyzing performance across the infrastructure layers. It’s not uncommon to have meetings with all the infrastructure owners to determine the source of the performance bottleneck. This impacts the business as performance might remain an issue until the infrastructure owners examine their respective areas of…

To better facilitate uniform implementation of storage policies, compliance with rules and regulations, and departments sharing documents instead of copies, the EDMS Team at the University of Washington is implementing Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC) as an enterprise document management system. Complicating this implementation is that each department has its own legacy business applications that WebCenter…

Original Broadcast: 4.17.14 Rapid Oracle databases and application growth has crippled the ability of legacy RAID-based and scale-up storage architectures to keep pace without imposing significant operational headaches and unnecessary capital outlays. Specific database operations where these challenges are most acute include: • RMAN merge windows • Data Guard Standby lag • Query response time,…

Original Broadcast: 4.15.2014 With powerful advancements in Oracle Database 12c come several areas of new functionality that streamline management, improve capacity utilization, and increase overall storage performance.   With Oracle Database 12c you can now track utilization, view data heat maps, and automate compression selection with policies which enable lifecycle data management across storage tiers.…

Learn how to apply Machine Learning methods for the tasks of database administration like anomaly detection, classifying various database events as well as SQL and PL/SQL code. We will use example operational events from the database like alert.log, listener.log, trace files as well as common database performance statistics.

a 2 hour session on infrastructure / architecture Each of the experts would be challenged to put together a green field design / architecture that would provide the storage, server and network services for a small to mid sized manufacturing company. They would have to provide a high level design (one slide), a high level…

Bugs. Errors. Slowdowns. Complete meltdowns. We've all run into performance issues. Most of the time, we focus on improving the obvious: indexes, query plans, and database hardware. But what about those things which hide beneath the surface? What about the network? Sure, you've had your share of disconnections caused by idle timeouts. But do you…

Release 3 of Enterprise Manager gives the command line interface for EM a distinct advantage by moving the EMCLI functionality into Jython, a Java implementation of the Python programming language. This session will provide an introduction to Python and give attendees a crash course in the newest version of EMCLI so they can get started…

Oracle Database 12c introduced the Heat Map as well as various partitioning and compression enhancements that can help you wrest back control of your data. In this session, you will learn how this works and how to implement Information LifeCycle Management (ILM) for Oracle based databases to take charge of data growth PowerPoint