Manufacturers, oil refineries, energy companies, consumer products firms and many others grapple with challenging environments. These environments demand high-uptime, continuous through-put, high-volume, and other constraints. Whether your toughest challenge is keeping your operations running 24x7, eliminating contaminations, reducing errors, or otherwise streamlining your operations, Business Intelligence can play a key role in your success. Learn…

This presentation deals with creating pre-built Oracle Virtual Machines (OVM) templates for rapid software deployment. A case study implementing Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) in about an hour instead of weeks, using pre-built OVM templates will be shown. Emphasis will be on creating, deploying and customizing OVM templates for rapid software deployment. An overview of…

The Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud is rapidly gaining acceptance as an enterprise-class Oracle platform. In this virgin territory, Oracle professionals need a complete understanding of cloud computing concepts and architectures. This session addresses the basics, and goes further, providing guidance on how best to optimize and configure Oracle for performance, stability and manageability in the…

This is a two-part session that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. “I never had the need for Analytic Functions”, is one of the phrases that is heard quite often. Maybe that’s true, maybe it isn’t. Recognizing the need for a particular feature can only occur when you have enough exposure to the feature.…

Learn from past successful experiences how to best conduct a Proof of Concept to put Oracle databases including 11gR2 and EBS on Linux on IBM System z. The session will discuss the key lessons learned when installing the 11gR2 Oracle Database on Linux on System z . Topics include how to set up z/VM Linux…

In this presentation, I will introduce concepts behind SCAN addresses, SCAN listeners, VIP addresses, VIP listeners, HAIP etc. I will also talk about how to integrate all these new features to setup the RAC environment optimally. It is important to understand the concepts behind these RAC features to effectively implement for high availability.

This session will cover several recent experiences of setting up the the Linux on z environements for Oracle DB 11gR2 with the latest versions of the RedHat and SLES distributions to prepare for the Oracle installation.

This is a two-part session that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The new Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c offers a wealth of new technology including additional abilities for the database administration. Whether a new or seasoned DBA, attend this session for a best practice demonstration and jumpstart on how to use them and make…

Come hear how CenturyLink (CTL) selected the Oracle Database Machine after evaluating multiple platforms to extend or re-platform its current multi-terabyte Oracle data warehouse. CTL is a telecommunications company created in 2009 when CenturyTel acquired EMBARQ. This merger exceeded the capacity of the current CTL data warehouse. To resolve this situation, CTL evaluated the HP…

More and more companies are utilizing virtualization in their environments to lower costs and effectively utilize resources. Placing Oracle databases in virtualized environments is not just for development and testing anymore. The rise of virtualization is introducing new performance challenges to the Oracle DBA that are not well documented at this time and these issues…