Presented at Quest Experience Week (QXW) – Database & Technology Day

The need for immediate applications to manage information has never been greater. Within the past year, countless organizations around the world had unanticipated requirements thrust upon them. Those organizations skilled in Low Code development platforms delivered solutions far faster than their traditional coding counterparts. Learn what their advantage was. This session will be a live demonstration of Oracle Application Express (APEX), the low code development platform from Oracle. In a matter of minutes, we will go from concept to data model to prototype to refined application. We’ll also convert a spreadsheet to a multi-user Web application. Two applications in under 45 minutes. Fasten your seat belt!

Presented at Quest Experience Week (QXW) – Database & Technology Day

Imagine managing your Oracle environment with a unified database operating model while delivering simplicity, performance, availability, and security across private and public clouds. Gone are the late-night outage fire drills and the long hours troubleshooting strange performance issues. Nutanix eliminates database management complexity by up to 90% so that organizations can accelerate time to market by as much as 8X.

Learn how to keep your business running with near-zero downtime and still reduce DBA off-hour workload by as much as 50%. Regardless of where your database resides, find out how Nutanix can save you time and transform you into a business driver.

Presented at Quest Experience Week (QXW) – Database & Technology Day

Come learn about SELECT Journal! Are you interested in getting your writing published, getting ACE credit for your work, and sharing your knowledge with other Oracle users? Quest Oracle Community is looking for writers to contribute to the SELECT Journal for our Quest Database & Technology Community audience. We are looking for writers with expertise in a variety of topics, so if you think this could be a good fit for you, join this session!

Presented at Quest Experience Week (QXW) – Database & Technology Day

Solving today’s business problems increasingly relies on machine learning techniques to leverage the volumes of data enterprises both amass and have access to. Oracle Machine Learning empowers data scientists, data analysts, DBAs, application developers, and executives to realize machine learning-based solutions faster and more easily. Automation of the model building process, referred to as AutoML, along with the ability to scale to enterprise data volumes while maintaining data security in Oracle Database, all come together to meet enterprise needs. In this session, learn about the in-database machine learning features and services, including those related to Oracle Autonomous Database. This session will include demonstrations and previews of Oracle Machine Learning functionality.

Presented at Quest Experience Week (QXW) – Database & Technology Day

You think you have seen it all… and then you see something new. I have studied literally hundreds of AWR reports and thought through thousands of performance scenarios. While I know how to use an AWR or Statspack report to analyze Oracle performance, I have also learned how to totally mess-up the analysis. There are some obvious ways to totally invalidate your analysis. But there are also some subtle mess-ups that fool you into thinking your time-based analysis is rock solid…yet it’s worthless and probably misleading. Join me for a light-hearted session as we explore what NOT to do.

Presented at Quest Experience Week (QXW) – Database & Technology Day

One of the most critical aspects of building effective systems is the successful management of unstructured/semi-structured information. The database is no longer only a place to store dollars and cents for the purposes of accounting. Efficient manipulation of JSON has become one of the most critical elements of contemporary database infrastructure. Even though you can store JSON documents in VARCHAR2 columns, in reality, you will quickly outgrow VARCHAR2 size limitations and will have to switch to LOBs for storage. However, few people in the development community really understand the underlying mechanics of Oracle LOB datatypes and consider it yet another DBA issue. This presentation attempts to fill that knowledge gap.

Presented at Quest Experience Week (QXW) – Database & Technology Day

This presentation will look at which 19c new features that should be investigated for use. This presentation will also have a few 21c new features such as AutoML. This presentation will also look at which 18c new features that should be in use (such as Snapshot Carousel, PDB Switchover, In-Memory External Tables, Merge Partition Online, Advances in the Approximate Query, Polymorphic Tables, Standby Nologging, and Password-less Schema Creation – & others). Most of the features that will be covered will be related to the DBA, but there will also be a few outside that realm that focus on the developer. There will be simple examples, where possible, to show the basic functionality of the new features. Some features are too new to show examples but only explain. We will also look at the autonomous database and Oracle’s focus on the future of security.