This presentation will look at which 11g new features should be investigated for use. Most of the features that will be covered will be related to the DBA, but there will also be a few outside that realm. There will be simple examples to show the basic functionality of the following new features: Memory Target…

This presentation is a high-level introduction to Oracle RAC. Many RAC beginner presentations are given by seasoned RAC experts and contain an overwhelming suite of technical discussions, covering a way too much information for the level of expertise of most attendees. This presentation is given by a beginner with the RACand will introduce attendees to…

Set is a card game which is fun to play while exercising your mind. In this session you will learn about the SET game, as well as how you can leverage SQL to solve it really quickly. Learn advanced features of SQL, such as Subquery Factoring and ANSI join syntax while we're cheating in the…

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11gRelease 2 has laid the ground for Oracle's grid infrastructure, preparing the Oracle RAC stack to be the foundation for private clouds. The 11.2.0.2 patch set completes this development, providing an even more dynamic cloud. OracleRAC 11.2.0.2 includes the new Oracle Cluster File System, Cloud Edition, an enriched version of the ASM-based cluster file system. It also includes Quality of Service Management (QoS), a new feature, which allows for optimized workload management in the cluster. In addition, further improvements like reboot-less node membership management and Redundant Interconnect Usage have been introduced to round up Oracle's new cloud offering. This presentation will given overview of these new features and discuss the changes introduced by Oracle's latest database patch set.

What's the right solution for your content management needs - Oracle Content Management or SharePoint or both. This presentation will try to provide an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these two competing but compatible content management solutions while presenting a business strategy to use both of them at the same time. See how focusing on the strengths of both systems can provide your organization with the benefits of both systems without being exposed to the weakness of either of them. The presentation will layout the strategy, highlight the implementation and speak to the business value of using both systems.

MDM sits at the center of the ideal information architecture. It supports application integration and service oriented architectures. It uses its accumulation of quality governed dimensions, cross-references, and hierarchies to support data warehousing and business intelligence applications. It acts as the glue between operations and analytics that has been missing for over two decades. This session covers MDM's support for operational applications and enterprise business processes. It then shows how this foundation for SOA translates into better information for BI.

I have worked with hundreds of MySQL customers over the past 4 years and many of them actually fall into the same bad habits. Whether its over-allocating memory or using GUIDs for primary keys, the results end up being the same...non-optimal database performance. I am going to walk through the most common of these mistakes and tell you why they are bad, and how you can avoid them.

OBIEE 11g Balanced Scorecard is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) based analytic application which generates Balanced Scorecards and other functionality that makes KPI analytics valuable, visible across the organization, and increasingly actionable closer to real time. How does it work? The logical split as well as its reflection in the underlying metadata is twofold: KPI and Scorecard. In this session, you will learn the building blocks of the application, KPI’s, KPI watch-lists, objectives, and strategic initiatives that support a what-if approach to strategic planning, and Scorecard documents. Most important, you’ll learn tips and tricks from real balanced scorecard implementations out in the field.