Virtualization brings well documented benefits, but many hidden risks. The operating system lacks visibility into the virtualization layer and conventional operating system level tools provide inaccurate metrics. In this session we will explore how to leverage Oracle Enterprise Manager to uncover performance bottlenecks due to virtualization.

This presentation is about how the Oracle database implements multiblock reads on Linux systems. Whilst this may look like a simple and easy to understand topic (the system fetches multiple blocks conforming db_file_multiblock_read_count blocks instead of one, right?), in reality it isn't. The description of the former line is mostly true for version 10 non-PQ…

This presentation is a must-see for anyone developing or using APEX based-applications! · Various Installation tips · Using SQL Developer with APEX · Setting up Users · Underlying Oracle Account privileges · Other useful tips

This session will talk about OBIEE implementation at Gallup. The session talks about the requirements and challenges faced for this implementation. The session will delve into details regarding performance tests for the implementation with findings. The session will also cover Oracle OLAP integration with OBIEE.

Originally Broadcasted: 2.27.2013 Featured Speaker: Jordan Meyer, Principal Consultant, Rittman Mead Interested in what to do with the vast, unstructured social data on sites like Twitter and Facebook? This presentation will help you discover how to combine social network data, advanced analytics and visualization to find important patterns in the social web. Demonstrations will use…

Get a brief overview of Oracle Social Network and how quick and easy it is to develop Fishbowls GeoTagging Mobile solution in phonegap/ADF Mobile for the Oracle Social Network Challenge entry at Oracle OpenWorld 2012.

With public and private clouds becoming a reality, new VM servers are spinning up in minutes, and databases being self provisioned your empire is growing rapidly. You can lay back in bed pleased with yourself on all that you have built... then the fear starts to creep in. Did you remember to add the new…

Business intelligence dashboards organize and present analytical data and reports for executives, managers, and analysts, but their design is often more a result of haphazard placement and chance than conscious strategy. Oracle BI 11g is perhaps the most complete and comprehensive Business Intelligence platform technology, but because it is so powerful and flexible, careful consideration…

With the exponential data growth, the traditional “one size fits all” data storage strategy of storing all Oracle data into a uniform storage media has become costly and less efficient. To solve this challenge, many IT organizations have adopted the tiered storage architecture consisting of multiple storage media types forming storage tiers. An automated storage…

Active Data Guard (ADG) is one of the best features Oracle has ever introduced, but not much is known about internal workings of ADG. In this session, I talk about how redo apply and queries work in conjunction, impact of delayed block cleanout, how redo apply works in RAC, how checkpoint operation is different on…