There seems to be a mis-perception that APEX based applications are better suited to one off projects than to enterprise application suites. Based on his personal experience, the presenter will show the best practices whereby APEX can indeed be used as a platform for building enterprise wide suites of applications that are quickly and easily…

Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) has been a feature in the Oracle Database since version 8.0, ever since then it has grown into a robust method to backup and recover your database. But with the life of DBA being ever – present in performance issues, user requests and even non related database situations like meetings,…

This session will provide attendees with a discussion on building Master Data Management solutions. It will provide insight into the process as well as provide examples of how an MDM solution may be implemented. This session will focus on creating an MDM solution using the basic functionality contained within the database to merge, match and…

This session will summarize the latest information on best practises for running the Oracle Database on Linux on IBM System z. It will be hosted by the President of the Oracle SIG and speakers from IBM and Oracle. It will be the closing session for the SIG User Group

A database is a very resource intensive by its very nature and one of the most resource intensive applications you will ever virtualize. If best practices are not followed, the database will never perform as needed. This presentation will teach the DBA best practices for Virtualizing Oracle/MySQL databases with a heavy emphasis on VMware.

Behind the scenes, Oracle databases hide a myriad of different processes to ensure that your data can be safely stored and retrieved. But these processes also leave “tracks” (or they COULD leave tracks if you set them up properly). These tracks, together with application-specific data, create a complete representation of the system day-to-day activity. But…

The Automatic Workload Repository is a powerful feature that was introduced in Oracle 10g and improved in Oracle 11g. Learn how you can utilize that power at an Enterprise level by bringing your Automatic Workload Repository data together into a central repository to compare reports across databases in your Enterprise; keeping snapshot data for longer…

The Oracle GoldenGate 11g created a new era in facilitating Very Large Database (VLDB) migrations with near-zero down-time. These migrations could even be between the data centers with minimal interruption to the business operations. The preferred approach for the initial synchronization or initialization of the database at the destination is hard ware replication. During the…

Learn how you can use Oracle Total Recall to easily access historical data in your applications. This presentation starts with a basic overview of Total Recall and Flashback functionalities and how developers and ISVs can use it in their applications including an introduction to the basic syntax of flashback queries. The second part of the…

SAP SIG Round Table