Previous migrations of Oracle Enterprise Manager left a DBA with no fallback position and extensive outage periods for the actual upgrade. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c has been completely rewritten that includes a comprehensive step-by-step method of safely upgrading including a pre-defined fallback method to revert to. Best practices on using the new Pre-Upgrade Console to validate your existing Grid Control install and insure a error-free migration to 12c. The three different methods of upgrading will be covered with suggestions on how to migrate depending on your technical requirements.

This talk will provide tips for using SQL against an Oracle Database. It will discuss how to exploit a selection of lesser known features and also how to avoid traps and pitfalls. Examples of redundant and undocumented functions, such as OVERLAPS, REVERSE and the range of SYS_OP functions will be covered and some of the…

Understanding the ‘TRUE’ High Availability (HA) requirements for the systems is the most critical component in providing and configuring the desired HA for the application. Business and IT must have a common understanding regarding the cost associated with the expected HA. The associated cost and the ‘TRUE’ HA requirements primarily drive the solution architecture and…

The design of streams replication involves a pipeline of components that are responsible for capturing, propagating, and applying logical change records (LCRs) from a source database to a destination database. Because of the interaction between streams and the database, there are a number of areas that can suffer performance problems thus obstructing real-time data updates.…

An overview of High Availability Solutions with MySQL with case studies of customer deployments in the field

Oracle VM provides users with an array of new capabilities for managing and consolidating workloads as a first step to a cloud implementation. The underlying hardware needs to be architected to combine compute, network, and storage elements balanced correctly to make sure of maximum performance. Oracle VM on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS)…

This is a two-part session that will take place on Monday and Tuesday. Database shrinking can be overwhelming. Don’t let this feature intimidate you; let it become a powerful friend! This session describes why shrinking is needed and just how to go about using it. Being forewarned and forearmed will decrease the learning curve and…

This seminar will teach you the beginnings of flashback. It will cover flashback from simple like flashback query to complex like flashback database.

This presentation is to provide the audience a look into the open source virtualization tool that is currently available by Oracle free of charge. In this presentation, it will provide the audience information about VirtualBox and its capability. It hopes to educate attendees that the concept of virtualization is not as scary and complex as…

Drawing on his extensive background of solving 7,000 performance issues, Oracle ACE Chris Lawson presents ten surprisingly powerful performance tuning tactics. Some techniques are very simple to use, whereas others require multiple steps.