Protecting the mission-critical data that resides on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a top priority. The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is ideally suited for this task due to superior performance, enhanced reliability, extreme network bandwidth, powerful features, simplified management and cost-efficient configurations. Come learn how the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance can fulfill your data…

Original Broadcast: 10.28.2014 Big data promises big benefits to your organization, but real barriers exist in achieving these benefits. Today’s big data projects face serious challenges in terms of skills, application integration, and security. Oracle Big Data SQL radically reduces these barriers to entry, by providing unified query and management of data in Oracle Database,…

Original Broadcast: 2.4.2014 The extreme performance and mission-critical nature of Oracle Exadata means you need a backup solution that's up for the task. Join Oracle experts, Oracle customers and current IOUG members to learn about the best practices they've adopted and benefits they've realized using Oracle Exadata with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances.   Whether you've…

Cloud database enables administrators to scale up and down the resource usage according to the business requirements. Oracle 12c renders multi-tenancy to manage multiple pluggable databases within a multi-tenant container database. In an Exadata, at the compute nodes, the resource manager controls the resources among pluggable databases, and all this resource management is trickled down…

If you have read about Exadata on the Internet, you have probably heard the term “patchmadness” before. What does this mean? In this session, Andy Colvin will take out the mystery surrounding Exadata patching. Andy will provide a deep-dive into how the patching process works, covering the various patches to be installed on Exadata, how…

Some may say that Exadata is the ultimate way to disguise bad choices. This session will highlight some of the top configuration and implementation mistakes made on Exadata, based on the experience of over 100 successful Exadata implementations. Scenarios will include a description of the problem, what led to the decision, and how to easily…

Learn how customers can leverage the software and hardware features of Engineered Systems(Exadata & Exalytics) to achieve performance gains by applying these to their existing data warehouse and business intelligence environment. The presentation will detail the below points on how Oracle's offerings complement each other and provide real-world lessons learned when implementing these engineered systems…

Take a plunge into the technical details of Oracle Exadata. After this session, you will understand what has been done to enhance and extend the Oracle Exadata system, database architecture, and functionality and how to take maximum advantage of these new capabilities. The presentation examines in detail the Oracle Exadata hardware and software architecture, Oracle…

The session starts with the pre requisites and scope. It brings awareness to the common practices from pre to post migration. Pre migration highlights on employing exadata configuration automation, and ensuring s/w compatibility among different components. Migration focuses on optimal ASM configurations, and choosing the right strategy with either logical or physical. Post migration enables…

Exadata presents a new set of concepts—InfiniBand, storage servers, CellCLI, bundle patches, and others—that can be overwhelming for Oracle DBAs, yet Oracle Exadata still runs Oracle Database software and makes heavy use of well-known Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) technology and Oracle Database’s Oracle Automatic Storage Management feature. Beginning with Oracle Exadata’s architecture, this…