While organizations build ever more complex, capable, and governed data systems, they continue to add “uncontrolled” unstructured content to shared drives and silo repositories. This content becomes “dark” over time and adds little or no long term value. An effective Information Governance program will enable you to understand and react appropriately to this 80% of…

Sometimes you need to dig deeper than Oracle allows you to see. This can be in the case of internal errors (ORA-600/ORA-7445), but also if you want to truly understand what is going on. This is where GDB, the GNU debugger comes in. With GDB, you can profile the Oracle executable at the C-function level. As with anything, digging deeper comes at a cost. In order to use GDB you have to understand how a C is executed and program works in Linux.
This is where this session is about: to give the attendee a brief introduction into how C/C++ programs work, and why GDB can be used, despite debugging symbols (what makes debugging happening) not being available for the Oracle executable, and give some basic recipes to certain use cases.

Arthur C. Clarke wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This has been proven true in many technologies, and it makes troubleshooting of that technology seem like art. But it is not art, it is process, and the intent of this presentation is to use one case study to demonstrate a process…

GoldenGate is widely used technology to replicate mission critical OLTP databases to separate database for consolidated and real time operational reporting. This session will provide overview as well as many specific performance tuning techniques used at U.S. Celluar to replicate 3-5 TB trail files generated daily. The techniques include GoldenGate 12c infrastructure design, source and…

Provides understanding Responsive Design principles (RDP) and how they apply to your Oracle Content Management system. Introduces basic pirnciples of Information Architecture and User Experience Management. Review real world examples of financial, marketplace and business process level impact of implementations where RDP are not applied. Help Oracle professionals to quickly identify areas of sub-standard performance…

There are two types of table compression available in the Oracle database: basic/OLTP and HCC. While there has been a great deal of discussion of these methods over the past few years, what isn't often discussed is that there is a third form of compression, known as "trailing NULL columns", which can be considered a…

This session presents the high performance security and secure consolidation strategies for business-critical, multi-tier/multi-tenant cloud applications and databases on Oracle SuperCluster and Exadata Systems.

This session highlights the unique security features, strategies and architectures of the Oralce SuperCluster platform made possible by the integration of high performance cryptography, hardware virtualization, networking and operating systems. Further, this session will share high performance security and virtualization strategies and best practices for secure database consolidation and multi-tier/multi-tenant cloud-enabled application deployment scenarios to reinforce how the Oracle SuperCluster and Exadata systems delivers secure consolidation of business- critical, multi-tier and cloud-enabled applications.

Oracle has a number of authentication methods, but by far the most popular is prompting users for passwords. Just how safe are Oracle passwords? How vulnerable are they to malicious attempts to breach their security? In this Quick Tip, we'll touch on the various authentication methods available along with their relative strengths and weaknesses. And…

Performance tuning tips & techniques across the various components of the Oracle Webcenter 11g environment. DB, storage, network, application, webservers, etc. Whitepaper PowerPoint

Oracle’s AWR (Automated Workload Repository) provides a plethora of information for understanding what your database is doing during specific periods of time. The AWR consists of 111 DBA_HIST% views, 281 metrics, 652 statistics and a multitude of other interesting DB performance snippets that can be used to assemble a cohesive picture of the performance problems…