Services are a powerful but overlooked aspect of Oracle database configuration (for both RAC and non-RAC). We will discuss their advantages in cluster and single-instance databases from version 8i through 11g â incorporating several years of focused investigation and experience. Topics covered will range from a strategic overview of how services best fit into system…

This will be a panel discussion describing early experiences installing and running the Oracle Database 11gR2 on Linux on System z. It will cover best practices on setting up the Linux and z/VM environment for the 11gR2 Database and lessons learned from installation experiences by the panel members.

To do the Unix philosophy right, you have to be loyal to excellence. You have to believe that software design is a craft worth all the intelligence, creativity, and passion you can muster. - Eric S. RaymondThe development guidelines that made Linux/UNIX so robust and reliable can be applied to the shell scripts we rely…

Using new features of Oracle Database 11g in partitioning and advanced compression, we can maximize cost savings and performance without sacrificing ease of management. New partitioning features can help us improve performance, in combination with Oracle Advanced Compression, to reduce disk storage costs and eke out some further performance improvements. This session shows examples and…

Oracle Streams is a data replication and integration feature of the Oracle database. Streams enables the propagation of data, transactions, and events it is used for data replication and integration either within the database or between two different databases. This presentation will provide an overview of the streams Architecture, will discuss the basic configuration of…

Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g provides an end-to-end solution for automated provisioning and lifecycle management of the entire system stack. This session covers how Oracle Enterprise Manager Provisioning pack can save the time and cost for IT organizations by automatically provisioning Oracle RAC. Attend this session to learn how configure the latest Oracle enterprise manager 11gr1…

In recent years, FEDEX was faced with supporting hundreds of non-homogenous, aging, production database environments. With the corporation moving to Linux as the standard OS, an effort was embarked to productize our database platforms, making them more consistent and lower in total cost. In this session, learn about the lessons learned and the technology utilized…

This two-hour, hands-on tutorial shows how executives and BI users can visually create illuminating ad hoc BI queries, and build insightful dashboards natively in Microsoft Excel directly against Oracle Database OLAP Option. We introduce the business value of multi-dimensional OLAP cubes. Then Excel's PivotTables are used to investigate business measures broken down simultaneously by, say,…