Reviewing execution plans is a common task for most DBAs, SQL developers, and performance experts. Each execution plan details the steps and operators necessary to execute a SQL statement. A solid understanding the operators and their order of execution makes a big difference in deciding the best execution plan - and ultimately how it effects…

Learn how customers can leverage the software and hardware features of Engineered Systems(Exadata & Exalytics) to achieve performance gains by applying these to their existing data warehouse and business intelligence environment. The presentation will detail the below points on how Oracle's offerings complement each other and provide real-world lessons learned when implementing these engineered systems…

This session presents a customer use case for low overhead virtualization of Oracle Database 11gR2 on Oracle SuperCluster using Oracle Solaris Zones . It includes a general overview of the technology, a specific use case, and best practices, followed by discussion and Q&A. The use case profiles an actual customer implementation of database zones on…

Learn how you can use Oracle 12c Multitenant Database? How will it help you ease in management of your database and reduce complexity and cost the to manage you databases. Get a jump start on how to manage Oracle Container and Plugin databases. Learn how to connect to CDB's and PDBS's, shutdown and restart them…

For a federal government lab where Information Assurance is a key, one cannot just use the Oracle Webcenter install document as is. There are several layers of security, starting with the hardware, operating system, network intranet/DMZ, OAM (OID/SSO), and ADF security. With various server software stitched together one has to mix and match different versions…

Do Japanese, Chinese, Russian, or Arabic characters not display correctly when stored in your Oracle database? If so, it’s time to migrate your database to Unicode. Database migrations to support storage of international, multi-byte characters can be a daunting task. Oracle’s free Database Migration Assistant for Unicode (DMU) tool can make the work a lot…

When Performance problem is reported by database users, DBA’s tend to rely just in what they are reporting, but this is just what users are feeling not what is really happening inside the Database. Are users telling me truth? I asked myself every time while analyzing Database performance problems, knowing that users feel the overall…

In this presentation we will discuss storage performance issues and highlight how they can be directly affect the performance of Oracle applications. We will journey through the storage architecture evolution, touching on the importance of storage performance on Oracle wait events. This is a technical presentations on Oracle internal waits events with many customer examples.…

Kapow Software helps organizations reduce the time and cost of web and document content migrations by 80-90%, all while improving accuracy and eliminating business disruptions. Kapow Software can automate migrations from any legacy source and can do this with no freeze on the content. Companies like Audi, Intel, Fiserv, Lowes, NetApp, and more have leveraged…

Navigating the cloud landscape can be daunting. You are asked how you will integrate cloud in your overall IT strategy, yet questions remain about how to execute well, while fully optimizing your Oracle environment. We've designed this session to assist with your overall roadmap, outlining options, best practices and pitfalls we've seen in Oracle cloud…