Data security is critical for a business. Data is not just providing the business processes, workflows and intelligence but are the assets for the company. Protection of the data in databases and in-transit is important if on-premise or in the cloud. They might even been traveling between the two. The skill is mi…

New DBA's hear stories from their experienced peers about databases being recovered from certain failure and the heroics involved, but what's the reason for those successes? One of the main tools, used by the savior DBA, is the Recovery Manager: RMAN. We're entrusted with our customer's data and the nov…

MySQL 8 is now available and is the most recent update to the MySQL database.  It is packed with updates and changes in this presentation we will take at look at those updates and changes.  We will also explore the new features of MySQL 8 as well as well as what has been deprecated and…

MySQL offers enterprise security benefits that you may not be aware of and some that you may be aware of.  In this presentation we will explore MySQL database security at community edition up to enterprise edition.   The security capability is much more then most would think especially with enterprise edit…

The Oracle Database Security Assessment tool offers the databsase administrtor the ability to check their database environments to understand the risks that exist to their environment.  Knowning where the environment is not following security best practices, where there are open known security risks is the first…

This year saw the introduction of Oracle Autonomous Database, a series of cloud services that enable anyone to rapidly build a secure, highly available and elastic database optimized for any workload. With the introduction of Automatic Indexing, Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Database on Exadata…

How often do you get the chance to start over and do things the way you want?  That's what we did with Unified Audit in Oracle Database 12c.  Join us to review why we created this greaet new feature, learn about some of the many things you can do with Unified Audit, and hear our…

Get hands-on and learn the features of the Python cx_Oracle interface for Oracle Database. In this session learn efficient techniques for connection management, statement handling, and more. If you want to use Python and Oracle Database, this session is for you. Basic programming skills in any langu…

Recent Oracle Database releases include significant new features that streamline user administration, reduce database attack surfaces, and protect personally identifiable information, and other sensitive data. In this session learn about the new way to authenticate and authorize database users in Active…