Behind the scenes, Oracle APEX stores all types of different information about your applications and user access in metadata tables. This session will cover some of the wide and varied uses you can put that data to.

The goal of this presentation is to go beyond the basic features of Oracle’s Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) and SQL Plan Management (SPM) to avoid plan regression and learn to use these tools with new techniques. You will see ways to combine the information stored historically in AWR with the capabilities available with SPM to…

Cloud Computing and Virtualization have been a top priority for IT and Business in recent years. Besides analyst and media focus with very large forecasts, it is also seen as a disruptive way to do business with technologies. Part 1 of this presentation, focuses on Cloud Computing Core Concepts and introduces concepts in an easy-to-understand…

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…

RAC and Clusterware are complex environments to administer and even more so when there are problems. Learn about various tools and utilities which can be used to troubleshoot, instrument and diagnose these problems.

Learn how to architect and implement backup and recovery solutions for large database and application environments. In this session you will learn the backup and recovery best practices of one the world’s largest hi-tech companies and understand how they were able to achieve cost savings and improved performance through unbeatable license costs at 40% lower…

Find out how to control that unruly, unstructured content with metadata. Learn about topics such as metadata discovery, controlled vocabularies and parametric search. See how Oracle WebCenter Content can provide you with technologies and tools to implement these ideas.

SQL is arguably the world's most popular programming language today, and SQL database servers and systems are used in the majority of mission-critical business applications. However, many applications need capabilities such as transactions, concurrency, and high performance usually associated with database servers, without the query flexibility or overhead of SQL. Oracle Berkeley Database transactional key-value…

It is common for large enterprises to have several years of VMware experience, with hundreds to thousands of virtual machines in their data centers. It is also common for such organizations to experience some stall in the anticipation of virtualizing Tier-1 workloads. House of Brick Technologies has co-authored three case studies with VMware Corporation (vmware.com/oracle)…

With the great interest in ‘Big Data’ solutions, hear why the Oracle platform is perfect for ‘Big Data’ requirements with analytic and SQL capabilities to join ALL data types, including relational, Spatial, XML, text, semantics, multimedia and other unstructured data. Get an introduction into the features in Oracle Database for storing, managing and analyzing unstructured…