This is a two-part session that will take place on Monday and Tuesday. The database landscape is evolving as new, scalable data stores emerge. Key value stores, large tabular stores, and document-oriented databases offer a compelling alternative to the traditional relational database. By removing joins and loosening ACID constraints, this new class of non-relational or…

More and more companies are utilizing virtualization in their environments to lower costs and effectively utilize resources. Placing Oracle databases in virtualized environments is not just for development and testing anymore. The rise of virtualization is introducing new performance challenges to the Oracle DBA that are not well documented at this time and these issues…

In this session, see how Medtronic’s iPad-based mobile content management system allows sales reps to quickly access the latest product videos, presentations, and PDFs on-the-go, while storing the information centrally and securely in Oracle WebCenter Content. By leveraging Fishbowl’s iOS Mobility Suite API, sales reps can access collateral from WebCenter within an easy-to-use iPad application.…

Even the best-planned database upgrades can leave nagging questions: what happens if my upgraded system performs unexpectedly? Is there a way I can go back to the previous version without downtime and data loss? Oracle GoldenGate allows DBAs to give affirmative answers to these questions. Drawing on upgrade experiences ranging from mid-sized databases to a…

Attend this session to get the inside track on how Oracle Exadata is monitored and managed using Oracle Enterprise Manager. Learn from a real-world implementation on how to effectively instrument and monitor your engineered systems.

In special situations, the Oracle Database generates too many child cursors for particular SQL-IDs. This results in high CPU load on the DB server, coming from heavy mutex access. This is visible as mutex wait events. The lecture will show how this situation arises, how the DBA can try to quick-fix it and how long-term…

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.

WikiLeaks has dramatically changed how organizations deal with data security. Without getting into the politics, this session will discuss how to mitigate data breaches in your APEX applications. It will follow your data through its “chain of custody”, and provide insights on securing it at each step. It will cover not only things to do…

What's the right solution for your content management needs − Oracle WebCenter Content or SharePoint or both. This presentation will try to provide an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these two competing but compatable content management solutions while presenting a business strategy to use both of them at the same time. See how…

Oracle 11g offers several methods for database duplication, including duplicating to the same server or duplicating to an alternate or development platform for use as development instance. This talk will provide a real-life step-by-step example of how I use Oracle Active Duplication in 11gR2 to duplicate or clone my production instance to a development instance…