Are you struggling with the cost of adding more and more datasources? Of doing complex transformations across growing volumes of data? Of rapidly incorporating complex data objects into your data warehouse? Big data technologies are not just for internet companies or your new social-media application. Attend this session to learn how Oracle Big Data Appliance,…

While SSD may be too expensive to replace your entire database disk, judicial use of SSD in combination with magnetic disk can be a very cost effective way of accelerating Oracle database performance. This presentation will consider how best to use SSD in an Oracle database to get the most bang for your SSD buck.…

Organizations are quickly moving beyond the definition of big data and are starting to implement it in the organization. Understanding the future of big data is crucial in the early stages of decision-making for big data architectures. This session lays out Oracle’s roadmap and strategy for the enterprise big data platform of the future. Specifically,…

Migrating business critical processes from MS Access/Excel, Oracle Forms or other legacy platforms to APEX makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons, but undertaking these projects demands prior analysis and planning that is often overlooked and/or underestimated. APEX migration projects pose challenges and transitions that merit discussion and planning beyond the simple…

In this session, get up to date on the latest features found in the Oracle NoSQL Database. The session will present on the topics of leveraging Secondary Indexes, Security features, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Data Center support and more. PowerPoint

Oracle Golden Gate is quickly becoming the replication and migration tool of choice. Many organizations struggle to implement, run and monitor Golden Gate. Oracle Golden Gate monitoring is critical to any currently running Golden Gate environment or migration project. In this session, you will learn techniques for monitoring Oracle Golden Gate while ensuring operational awareness…

Big Data offers many opportunities for large enterprises to improve competitiveness and to create new, data-driven products. And it offers significant opportunities for IT professional career growth. But these opportunities to not come without risks for the individual and organization. Big data is potentially transformative for some industries and those that cannot or will not adapt may face extinction. Furthermore, big data projects are inherently ground breaking and while many will prevail and lead to fame and glory for the big data pioneer, others will suffer ignominious defeat.

In this presentation we’ll look at the market forces driving big data, drill into the key technologies available to power a big data project and outline the attribute that allow big data projects to succeed.

After assessing the business imperatives that are driving big data projects we will survey the big data technology landscape which includes technologies such as the Hadoop ecosystem, Exadata, Machine Learning, collective intelligence and predictive analytics. We'll conclude with recommendations on how to optimize your big data project, career and architectures.

Orginial Broacast: March 6, 2014, 12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m. CST In this eye-opening session, Oracle® ACE Bert Scalzo will explore the 10 most challenging tasks DBAs face as well as techniques to easily master them. With Bert’s guidance, you’ll know how to leverage the right database administration tools with Toad for Oracle to save time…

Oracle Active Data Guard and Oracle Database 12c are game-changers for real-time data protection and low-risk planned maintenance. Learn from Oracle Product Development experts how to achieve zero-data-loss protection at any distance without degrading performance. This session shows how to save network bandwidth by using off-host compression. See how easy it is to manage an…

Today as more and more IT organizations look ways to consolidate databases, database cloud model is being increasingly adapted. Hosting many databases with different SLAs, high availability becomes extremely critical to a database cloud. This session will discuss how to design and implement such a database cloud infrastructure to meet SLAs. It will cover the…