This session will discuss the new pluggable database feature of Oracle Database 12c, what it is, how it works, and why would you want it. Pluggable databases are yet the latest tool we have to improve database and server consolidation in the datacenter to reduce operating costs. Learn how to have multiple applications each in…

The information technology industry has been a tremendous growth in Cloud delivery models for IT services in the past couple of years. More recently, the PaaS service model including Database-as-as-Service (DBaaS) has been gaining traction rapidly. Amazon's RDS public DBaaaS service supports Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server and enable rapid development lifecycles by giving end-users…

With organizations facing both increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks and rising levels of internal data theft, several highly respected research companies have issued reports calling for stronger measures to defend enterprises’ most valuable IT assets - their data. According to survey reports, only 21% of enterprises are pursuing advanced security measures, whilst the others remain soft…

Present and discuss content migration strategies, tools and techniques. Considering large-scale content migration from legacy content management systems, email, and shared drives. Whitepaper PowerPoint

With the plethora of new features in Database 12c, one of the more interesting ones to me are Flex ASM and Flex Clusters. Offering an improved way to decouple the dependency on a local ASM instance, Flex ASM allows for an excellent alternative. Flex Clusters on the other hand, is DB12c's answer to "running of…

Oracle Database Release 12cR1’s new Automatic Database Optimization (ADO) features now make it possible to automatically locate data within the most appropriate storage tier and at the appropriate compression level based on its usage patterns. Oracle DBA and Oracle University instructor Jim Czuprynski will demonstrate how to take advantage of these features to speed queries…

IaaS, DBaaS, PaaS… these are all terms that are being tossed around when discussing cloud. Each has it’s place, but how do you managed all of these options? OEM 12C allows you to managed your cloud solutions, whether they are Database (DbaaS) , Platform ( PaaS) or Infrastructure (IaaS). This session will should you how…

Content has historically been migrated by leveraging existing database data to generate an Excel, CSV, or text file, and then transforming that file into a batchloader file. Join this session for a new approach that might eliminate the need for the intermediate file manipulation. We’ll walk through some code and provide a demonstration.

Original Broadcast: 3.13.14 You chose Oracle Database and Real Application Clusters to help your organization deliver superior business results. Now learn how to further enhance the Availability, Scalability and Performance of RAC by staying on top of the latest Success Factors and Best Practices developed by RAC and Database experts. In this session, Oracle Proactive…

Oracle's Recovery Manager (RMAN) uses the dbms_backup_restore procedure to write and retrieve files from it's backup sets. There is little documentation on this procedure even though it is one of a handful that will run without a database instance. This presentation will show you how you can use this powerful feature to restore exactly what…