Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c has introduced many new features that cover many different areas. Some of the new features are especially useful for the database administrator, such as visualization of performance data using ASH. This and other features have improved the management capab…

Oracle VM Server for x86 is Oracle’s virtualization product for the commodity hardware platform. This product is the only virtualization product supported by Oracle for database virtualization. Edward Whalen is the author of the newly published book “Oracle VM Implementation and Administration” from Oracle P…

Oracle VM provides two major categories of virtual machines; HVM and Paravirtualized. The HVM or Hardware Virtualized Machine is able to take advantage of hardware acceleration features built into the x86 chipset to accelerate certain operations. The Paravirtualized machine is able to take advantage of mor…

Oracle WebCenter Content 10g functionality was effectively contained in one container - the Content Server. This fact alone made it easy to deploy, administer, and customize. However, for all of these easy capabilities, the product was somewhat lacking on the scalability and performance side. With Ora…

Oracle Server, the flagship database, has many features familiar to Oracle DBAs for daily operation of solid production environments. These same DBAs are now expected to manage Oracle's MySQL that is being adopted by many companies. We explore the full life cycle and tools of a robust commercial MySQL…

RMAN is a must-have tool familiar to most Oracle DBAs. There are many capabilities hidden in RMAN and going beyond the basics is important. After a quick review of the core functionality, we will discuss both old and new features and provide tips and tricks along with sample code using the Command Line Inter…

The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. MITRE manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), partnering with government sponsors to support their critical operational missions. MITRE’s Records Management department needed to…

Ever wondered how Oracle locks a row, or a table? Is there a master lock manager? No, there is not. In this session you will learn how Oracle manages the locking with demos, how ITL slots are used and how you can avoid the issues related to ITL slots. Also learn how unindexed Foreign Keys…

Oracle announced several appliances and engineered systems - Database Appliance, Exadata, Exalogic, T4 super cluster, Exalytics and Big Data Appliance. While these products provided much needed gap in many cases, there is a tremendous amount of confusion about the proper usecase of these machines. I…