Tag: Database & Technology

On August 1, Oracle announced the general availability in all commercial regions of Oracle Functions, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's functions-as-a-service (FaaS) platform.

Security configuration and features are available at many levels in Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Attend this session and learn security fundamentals directly from Oracle Development. This session will focus on the storage and OS layers with an overview of the database-layer security options and best practices. We will outline necessary requirements for system maintenance so…

Security is important today more than ever. We’ll talk about how attacks actually occur and technologies that can prevent or mitigate their effectiveness. Featured Speaker: Scott Lynn, Product Line Director, Oracle Solaris Product Management

Database I/O wait events can dramatically slow down your business-critical OLTP applications and add continual stress to your life as a DBA. Your ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint the top I/O culprits and address them with a high performance storage infrastructure improves the responsiveness of your Oracle Database and applications you’re responsible for. Join this…

Dhvani Sheth, Solution Engineer at Oracle, showed how Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can provide useful data analysis and visualization to HR departments. Hiring the right people requires a lot of time, money, and effort. However, hiring the wrong people can be just as costly, if not more so. Without using data analytics to make data-driven decisions, HR departments may be prone to hire based on a cognitive bias that they aren’t aware of. Instead of using traditional techniques, HR can use data analytics and visualization to find patterns within large volumes of data to make insightful hiring decisions for the company.

David Huffman, Solution Engineer at Oracle, explained to users how Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud can provide organizations and analysts with insights into accurate, comprehensive data.

For the airline industry, flight delays are a serious problem. This problem ultimately cripples customer satisfaction and retention, wreaks havoc on schedules, and reduces revenue. What if airlines could move past expensive, time-consuming, legacy IT approaches? This could help them harness their data to better analyze, understand, and mitigate flight delays. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can help them do exactly that.

There may be times when it makes sense to consider an open source-based DBMS like Postgres along side your Oracle databases. The session will cover how to migrate from Oracle to Postgres, quickly and without risk, by taking advantage of automated tools to analyze and convert definitions, tables, views, stored procedures and indexes.

Stumped by how to implement least privileges model for your database and reduce your cyberattack surface?  You know it's something you're supposed to do, but how do you know which privileges and roles are needed by all your users and applications?  Too many roles and privileges make it easy for hackers to use a single…

Data Intensity decided to utilize the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud to solve a problem that they were facing around financial reporting. Before the decision to use Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, Data Intensity’s finance team was spending roughly 60 percent of its time just getting the data out of systems. Therefore, only the remaining 40 percent of the time was spent generating value back to the business.