Join us for lunch, and what promises to be a lively and informative conversation with IBM's Chuck Calio as he dives into the next generation of IT Growth solutions, including Cloud, Analytics, Big Data, Mobile, and Social. You'll walk away with new and innovative ideas on how you as an Oracle professional, can take advantage…

Analytic Functions have been available for years, but have not gained good visibility. Discover why these should not be a secret! See real world examples, to be inspired in how complex problems can be solved more easily. The primary goal is to raise awareness, so you can know when to consider analytic functions as an…

Many shops have adopted Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (OEM) for real-time monitoring and maintenance. In this session you’ll be introduced to the extensibility features built into OEM. Custom metrics collection, scripted interfaces, and public reports are all available. We’ll take a look at some of the more popular features and direct you to resources…

OEM 12c comes with a large set of canned Information Publisher reports and some of them are useful without modification. This session will walk you through the process of creating your own custom reports based on a combination of SYSMAN data and information from the SCOOP schema that we'll create.

Application Continuity masks outages from end users and applications by recovering the in-flight work for impacted database sessions following unplanned and planned outages. Application Continuity performs this recovery beneath the application so that the outage appears to the application as a slightly delayed execution. Without Application Continuity, it is almost impossible for an application to…

The presentation focuses on how to detect, analyze, and resolve database performance problems. This session provides a walkthrough using real-life scripts in detecting performance issues along with determining the scope of the issue. The presentation leverages several of V$ views to dig into to uncover the performance problems. The takeaway from this session is: “I…

SQLT XPLORE uses brute force analysis to explore some aspects of a SQL statement. The typical case is this: A SQL statement has a performance regression after a database software upgrade. Setting Optimizer Features to the pre-upgrade release causes the performance of the SQL to be restored, so there is a high level of confidence…

This session is about how Adaptive Cursor Sharing (ACS) actually works. How a bind sensitive cursor becomes bind aware? What are those "ACS buckets"? How the "Selectivity Profile" works? Why sometimes your SQL becomes bind aware and why sometimes it does not? How is that ACS interacts with SQL Plan Management (SPM)? These and other…

Take a plunge into the technical details of Oracle Exadata. After this session, you will understand what has been done to enhance and extend the Oracle Exadata system, database architecture, and functionality and how to take maximum advantage of these new capabilities. The presentation examines in detail the Oracle Exadata hardware and software architecture, Oracle…

Search is a critical part of any effective content management solution. Without it, documents, web pages, policies, and other enterprise resources cannot be easily surfaced to end users. This session will explore the search technologies available to Oracle WebCenter customers including metadata-only search, Oracle Text Search, and Secure Enterprise Search, as well as the search…