As IT infrastructure expands to new IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms from multiple vendors, the surface area of risk and threats also increases. Meanwhile, security teams have to contend with silos of visibility and weak monitoring across distributed cloud assets. Unified security monitoring is critical to detecting modern threats that are rapidly evolving to exploit…

RMAN as most know it, is one of the most important utilities in a DBAs arsenal. In earlier releases it is fair to say that occasionally it did create havoc and some DBA's were afraid to use it. Is it too complex? “Backup database” - does not look to complex does it? In Oracle Database 12c, Multitenant was introduced and RMAN received a lot of attention with exciting new options. From full to partial backups, using cumulative or differential incremental backups, image copies or backup sets, in this session we will demonstrate how you can use RMAN to help protect your data as well as manage backup and recovery of your Oracle Database 12c Multitenant environment - including backups in cloud based solutions.

There are often challenges getting applications and clients to talk to our databases. This presentation teaches the basics of the Oracle Server networking by discussing the various components of OracleNet. We will discuss the various ways to connect to the database through the network and some tips to help simplify many of the challenges Oracle networking can pose. #IOUGeniusDBBeginner Certificate

Ever hear the phrase, "When I test, I test in production?" It can be a great way to test an upgrade or migration before you take the outage on your production system. In this session you will learn how the Electric Reliability Council of Texas not only reduced their outage window but also gained confidence…

This panel from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas show how they improved application resiliency by harnessing the features of Oracle 12c Real Application Clusters (RAC) and the Universal Connection Pool (UCP). The results of this project improved the ability for the application to continue during episodes of infrastructure outage.

There is a fundamental shift underway in IT to include open, software defined, distributed systems like Hadoop. As a result, every Oracle professional should strive to learn these new technologies or risk being left behind. This session is designed specifically for Oracle database professionals so they can better understand SQL on Hadoop, both on-premises and…

Going "serverless" is the latest technology trend for enterprises moving their processing to the cloud, including data integration and ETL tools. But what does that mean and when should I use serverless ETL? In this session, we'll dive into the world of Amazon's fully managed data processing service called AWS Glue. With no server to provision or resources to allocate, and an easy to populate metadata catalog, AWS Glue allows the data engineer to focus on his or her craft; building data transformations and pipelines. Gaining an understanding of the similarities and differences between traditional ETL tools, such as Oracle Data Integrator, and Glue will prepare attendees for the new world of data integration.

In forever changing Technology world, What an Oracle DBA should know to support every day activities in MySQL database! This presentation is focused on fast tracking the traditional Oracle DBA into the world of MySQL. Rapidly changing technology makes an Oracle DBA’s daily tasks as challenging as it can be. Instead of supporting only Oracle…

Nearly every conversation with Oracle surrounding hardware includes a discussion about their various cloud offerings.  In the Exadata world, there are typically three choices: the traditional arrangement, an Oracle-hosted Exadata Cloud service, and the Exadata Cloud Machine.  The latter option, also known as "Cloud @ Customer," proclaims to offer the flexibility of a cloud offering,…