While migrating Oracle applications from physical to virtual OVM environments can be straightforward, it is important to take into consideration configuration issues regarding the interaction of the Operating System environment to the Virtual Environment. There are some gotchas that can complicate an installati…

Over the coming weeks, SELECT and DBTA will be collaborating on a series of articles that have DevOps as their core theme. Like so many other buzz words in Information Technology today, there is no single agreed upon definition that has been set forth for DevOps, so the editors at SELECT decided that before…

The concepts of Agile methodology and continuous delivery have become popular in software development, yet they are somewhat less mature among DBAs and database developers. Joyce Wells, editor at Database Trends and Applications (DBTA), spoke with Shay Shmeltzer, director of product management for…

Every now and again I come across the question: How can we lower latency and speed up data delivery? Irrespective of the target database, the desirable answer for the person responsible for implementing the data integration strategy may be to employ parallel processing. However, in many cases the decisi…

Check out this case study from Southern Utah University about how the university moved its entire infrastructure to the Cloud.

In an age where increased productivity is the gold standard, DBAs continuously seek new ways to become more efficient in their daily work. Amazon Web Services (AWS), an IOUG partner, recognizes this need and recently announced two new features to reduce and optimize vCPUs on the Amazon Relational…

In part three of this three-part series, learn about sharding in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 - the architecture and components, deployment, and management of the sharding configuration.

Database Security is important to understand and implement for data protection from insider and external threats. The cloud is another environment to make sure that the data is secure in the cloud and in transit. There are options and products available in the Oracle Cloud that can be utilized and DBAs and…

Did you notice that many navigation apps can suggest you in real time to deviate from the initial route because of traffic or accidents?It's pretty cool right? You wanted to take 5th but there is an accident so your initial plan doesn't look so good anymore once you hit the road.Oracle 12c can do the…