Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

For administrators and developers with little exposure to and new to cybersecurity, this presentation demonstrates various exploits across multiple tiers; in web servers, application servers, code, and even the operating system. Observe firsthand how easy it is for hackers to break into an unsecured system and learn about real-world consequences. Learn about cybersecurity risks, research findings, and CVEs. As an IT administrator or developer, find out where to start and what is needed to properly lock down your environments and applications.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Oracle provides a number of "vanilla" recipes in the Docker repository but these don't cover the needs of modern enterprises. This presentation discusses methods for creating images to support Data Guard, OEM, APEX, Sharding, rapid container deployments, Gold images, and transportable datasets. Participants will learn how to develop and customize Dockerfiles and orchestrations and apply them to their needs.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for your on-premise, hybrid, and cloud estate through a single pane of glass. Through its holistic approach, Oracle Enterprise Manager offers rich features as a foundation for monitoring all components of your IT infrastructure. This session gives valuable insight into monitoring best practices with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c. Learn practical tips and strategies with common use cases to simplify and streamline monitoring of your IT ecosystem. Drill-down topics covered include best practices, common challenges, and new features in monitoring including Intelligent Incident Compression, Always-On Monitoring, login page customization, consolidating alerts, and more.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

You've got lots of languages to choose from when it comes to building apps. You could do "ground up" - 100% hand-coded - yet that often leads to over-engineered solutions completed behind schedule, over budget, or both. But have you heard of low-code tools? You're still going to do some coding, but these products will help you deliver your app faster and cheaper, with more consistency and built-in security. Attend this session to learn about the low-code approach and related tools. You might discover a fast track to delivering all the applications your users are clamoring for.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Correctly setting up your SGA correctly goes beyond simply setting MEMORY_TARGET and MEMORY_MAX_TARGET. There are minimum settings for various pools that need to be considered. A methodology for setting these as well as ongoing tracking and adjustment is presented here, along with a handy worksheet for working calculating your settings.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Many DBA's want to be better DBA's, and many non­DBA's want to become DBA's. Often the primary training for this is in technical topics, memorizing tons of details, or being able to be the first to solve a technical issue. Yet some of the best DBA's I've known over the past 25 years start with "I don't know." So what 10 things do you need to do to be a great DBA that has nothing to do with databases?

How you interact with others in writing, reading, communication, talking, presenting, being able to repeat things, and more.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

To properly secure an Oracle database requires significant effort and often expensive security add-on products.  The Thrifty DBA likes having secure databases but doesn’t like to spend money on expensive security products when equivalent zero or low-cost solutions are available.  The Thrifty DBA will review and demonstrate open source security solutions that are effective in solving your database security challenges such as tools for database auditing and checking database security as well as useful security-related SQL Developer extensions.

Database 19c pluggable databases offer numerous options for the cloud. In this session, walk through Exadata Multitenant for cloud/on-premise databases. Topics covered include container database (CDB)/pluggable database (PDB) concepts, PDB value, shared/exclusive components, and accessing CDBs/PDBs. The session briefly covers migration options to 12c/18c from previous versions and then delves into Oracle Database 12c R2/18c features including PDB relocate, lockdown profiles, system global area/program global area for PDB, memory I/O resource prioritization, snapshot carousel, dynamic lockdown profiles, CDB fleet management, and new features in Oracle Database 19c if time permits.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

New in Oracle 20c is the Autonomous Health Service that supports centralized diagnostic monitoring of your on-premise Oracle RAC database clusters. Learn how to free up local cluster resources and improve monitoring efficiency with this centralized service-based solution. Practical tips and best practices for setup will be covered along with a demonstration of its responsive browser-based dashboard and triage console. Specific RAC database, ASM, and cluster issues will be rapidly triaged utilizing the built-in support for Trace File Analyzer and ORAchk/EXAchk collections, Cluster Health Advisor problem diagnosis, Hang Manager and Memory Guard events and QoS Management workload performance metrics.