You’ve been waiting to upgrade from Oracle 9i (or older) and finally have the resources to do so. Upgrade options from older systems can be limited if you are not on the terminal patch level, are changing platforms, or plan certain other activities at the same time. This session will review a real-world system upgrade…

Architecting Oracle database DR solution on vSphere 5 with Data Guard and SRM Abstract: This session will walk through the architecture and its components of an Oracle and VMware DR solution with Site Recovery Manager and Oracle Data Guard. This session will also focus on how to avoid issues in configuring SRM and Oracle Data…

I would like to have the oppurtunity to present my mobile app that I developed for the Database Admin community. It is the first pocketbook app for the DBA's and is available for the iphone and ipad. It is a free app called dbaBuddy available to download from the apple app store. The feature available…

This session will cover the experiences with and lessons learned from five real life Fusion Applications Installations. These were bare bones installations done on-premise and include the initial release of 11.1.1.5 through 11.1.4. This will not be a session completely comprised of the installation screenshots. For C-Level executives, we will cover considerations for SaaS vs.…

Compliance to industry best practices can easily be achieved with automation. This session will disseminate fundamental Data Guard best practices and demonstrate how DBAs can automate setup, configuration, and monitoring of Data Guard environments with assistance from the Date Guard Toolkit (DG Toolkit). The original Data Guard Menu (DG Menu) was presented and documented in…

This presentation will teach you the basics of Exadata & other Engineered Systems from a beginner's perspective, with experiences and examples that are intermediate level. It will go over the advantages of using this hardware and how the hardware components provide the speed that you'll realize implementing it. We will cover the following topics: •…

This is a beginner level presentation on partitioning. It includes tips for beginners on the four main ways to partition a table. I will show an example of each type of partitioning as well as benefits of each. I will also show how to merge and split partitions. This talk will include the following topics:…

Database Consolidation on Exadata with Deep Dive into I/O Resource Management This session covers the following topics: • Overview of the I/O Resource Management feature of Oracle Exadata • I/O Resource Management architecture • I/O Resource Management rules and planning • I/O Resource Management plans (intradatabase, interdatabase, and category resource plans) • Enabling intradatabase resource…

High availability (HA) is not just a buzzword—it is a fundamental approach to system architecture that helps ensure maximum uptime and minimum downtime for business services. The ultimate goal of HA architecture design is to ensure that there are no single points of failure (SPOFs) in an environment while not making the design so complicated…

Damian will present on new and emerging topics around high availability, maintenance and proactive actions to ensure systems maximise uptime and reduce potential service risk.