This is a continuation of “Oracle11.1 to 11.2 – In giant steps” session. The previous session talked about what you need to think about before starting the migration. This session continues the process to discuss the specific steps needed to upgrade from Oracle11.1 to Oracle11gR2.

This is a two-part session that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. This session will discuss how organizations can deploy Fusion Middleware Products into a secure, highly available environment. The discussion will touch on how to Keep your Critical Systems Up and Running in the Face of Disaster with Oracle Fusion Middleware

Discuss best practices and challenges involved in implementing Universal Records Management at Oracle. Discuss what it took to translate a 1200 page retention schedule and translate that to a file plan which could be leveraged by 100K different employees at Oracle to manage the life cycle of their content. Discuss how federated adapters of URM…

It seems that LDAP is cropping up as a data source more and more and DBAs and traditional RDBMS developers are asked to use it. This presentation provides an introduction to LDAP, describes the differences between this hierarchical database and RDBMS, and demonstrates the PL/SQL interfaces provided by Oracle to access and manipulate LDAP data.

Managing complex Oracle database environments often presents many challenges to the database administrators in the area of database performance, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data growth, and development and testing. This session introduces common technologies offered by many disk storage subsystems. It examines how DBAs can combine Oracle features such as Automatic Storage Management and…

How do you design an OLTP system that handles terrabytes of data and needs to scale 200% per year ? Or 200% per month ? By the way, all queries still need to respond in subseconds. And no, your budget is not unlimited. Enter Database sharding - the art of splitting data into manageable chunks,…

OCS (Oracle Collaboration Suite) is a legacy Oracle Middleware offering that was used by a team of researchers to run a KM (Knowledge Management) Portal for DoD (US Dept. of Defense) experimentation. While the team was amongst the beta users and the experience ground-breaking, over time OCS showed its age which necessitated the move to…

Organizations of all sizes face challenges in keeping track of users of Information Technology systems. Siloed applications, cloud based services and legacy systems make it difficult for managers to know "who has access to what". In this session, we will demonstrate Oracle's solution to managing this information; Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) and Identity Analytics (OIA).…

During this deep dive, the speaker will walk you through many database deployments scenarios, explain their pros and cons and demonstrate how to decide on HA architecture that's most appropriate for your project. We will start from learning how to define and quantify high availability requirements as well as how to choose the right technology. Of course, we will cover various Oracle HA technologies such as Exadata, RAC, ASM, Data Guard, Streams, Golden Gate, and various smaller Oracle features as well as some storage technologies and virtualization. This session will be most useful for database architects and database administrators who are looking to sharpen their architectural skills, however, there is no particular prerequisites for the attendees besides general familiarity with Oracle database technology stack. We will go deep into technical details of some features but general background will be provided.

This presentation will focus on the Oracle Clusteware/RAC Installation and Management by using a 16-node 11.2 installation. We will talk about design consideration including pre-reqs, hardware and network setup. We will go over all the Clusterware/RAC installation steps with screenshots. We will then focus on managing this 16-node 11.2 Clusterware/RAC DB including the use of…