Encrypting data is a useful tool to protect sensitive data be it at rest, in motion, or in use. For an Oracle Database, encryption may be done at the storage, application, network, and backup layers. Therefore, implementing database encryption can be time consuming and difficult as there are performance considerations and challenges such as effective…

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 Security Professionals should…

Oracle Database In-Memory is the industry leading in-memory database technology, seamlessly accelerating analytics by orders of magnitude, as well as greatly improving mixed workload enterprise OLTP applications. Database In-Memory is highly cost effective since it can be used on databases of any size by using in-memory only for critical data, while using flash and disk…

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…

Learn about latest ways to upgrade, migrate, and consolidate databases in Oracle Database 12c. This hands on lab includes; upgrading using the new command-line parallel upgrade script, plugging that database into container database, and migrating a database to a pluggable database using the full transportable export/import feature. #IOUGeniusDBReady

Original Broadcast: January 19, 2017 There's no such thing as a self-driving database. If you expect your Oracle databases to perform consistently at high levels, you need to have a maintenance program. The first part of that program is an assessment. Presenter Megan Elphingstone, Senior Oracle DBA for Datavail will show the audience how Datavail…

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So you’ve heard about the major new features of Oracle BI 12c, including Visual Analyzer, Data Mashups, and BI Ask, but what’s it *really* like to upgrade to BI 12c?  How do you ensure that the upgrade process goes smoothly?  Sure, VA looks exciting, but what about the library of dashboards and analyses you’ve built…

Over the past seven years we've seen what is clearly a 3rd era in database management as the relational database  hegemony has given way to a diverse set of alternatives including Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Cassandra and MongoDB, augmented by technologies such as Kafka, Drill and others.   But these next generation data platforms are mutating rapidly: we're on a journey - but…