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 o…

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 lo…

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 o…

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 strateg…

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…

You want to engage the mobile market, but what's the best approach? A native application in the iTunes store, or a mobile version of your web site? With the latest ADF Mobile tools, you get the best of both worlds, because you can make native applications with nothing more than standard HTML5, CSS, and JavaS…

Oracle recently acquired Fatwire, a Web Experience Management product, and renamed it WebCenter Sites. What does this mean for existing Site Studio customers? In this talk, we will give you a run-down on the similarities, differences, and new features that are available. We will also give guidance on how t…