Oracle SOA Suite is a complex piece of software which required good knowledge and research to install, configure and later maintain it. This session will highlight the best practices to install, configure and maintain for a High availability enterprise and share some real world performance solutions and basic Administrative tasks.

This will provide tips and tricks for simplifying the Oracle 11g installtion when using Oracle Linux 5 or 6.

In this session IBM will discuss the basics about running Oracle database on Linux on System z. IBM will review the infrastructure alternatives for running Oracle on Linux on z including several disk and networking options. Additionally, IBM will discuss the best practices of running Oracle guests (i.e., z/VM guests) on the System z. Various…

Oracle administrators face a daunting task. The time required to investigate all the combinations of server and storage vendors, determine best practices, and feel confident that desired performance will be achieved is extremely limited and further constrained by tight budgets and far too many priorities assigned by management. Wouldn’t it be easier if all of…

This session focuses on deploying Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c in a high-availability configuration that manages and monitors over 1,500 Oracle and non-Oracle environments across a landscape of Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. Secure-24 will provide insights into the challenges of implementing Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c in highly diverse environments. Challenges include managing licensing requirements, automating…

Best practices for Big Data from the authors of the Oracle Big Data Handbook from Oracle Press (being published in 2013). This presentation will discuss use cases where big data is appropriate to be used with the Oracle Database (either on Exadata or other hardware) in order to satisfy requirements. The presenters will describe the…

Mobile access isn't a fad,it's not cutting edge,and its not even new.Forrester estimates there will be over one billion smart-­‐phone customers by 2016. That would include 257 million smart-­‐phone and 126 million tablets in the US alone.What good is spending time and money on mobile access if it's a security risk? Security must be paramount…

This presentation will cover several real world examples of using Big Data with public sector customers (both civilian and defense customers). We will discuss use cases for the Oracle Big Data Appliance (including a Healthcare customer). We will also discuss use cases for the Oracle Big Data Connectors (including a security customer).

Active Session History (ASH) is a time-based sample of session activity in an Oracle database. It is a powerful source of information on how time is spent in the database, however misconceptions about and misuse of ASH data are common. Properly using ASH to understand and diagnose database performance issues requires understanding both its architecture…

Active Session History (ASH) is a time-based sample of session activity in an Oracle database. It is a powerful source of information on how time is spent in the database, however misconceptions about and misuse of ASH data are common. Properly using ASH to understand and diagnose database performance issues requires understanding both its architecture and the theory of time-based sampling. This two-part presentation will give an overview of ASH architecture and the theory and methods for using ASH:

Part 1
• The ASH mechanism: sampling, defaults, controls
• What an ASH row represents and the multi-dimensional nature of ASH data
• Estimating DB Time from ASH using SQL
• Top Activity and ASH Analytics interfaces in Enterprise Manager

Part 2
• The “fix-up” mechanism for TIME_WAITED and other important values
• Estimating event counts and average latencies from ASH
• Finding outlier events in ASH and the risk of sample errors
• Visualizing DB Time and event latencies