This is an interesting conundrum – does the presence of storage indexes make traditional indexes unnecessary in Exadata? Not at all. In this session you will learn what storage indexes are in Exadata, how they work (and don’t), how they work along with traditional indexes, how to gradually evaluate the effect of indexes instead of…

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c enables complete management of Oracle Exadata, including management of the storage servers, the InfiniBand fabric, and Oracle Database and its Oracle Grid Infrastructure feature. This session presents an overview of how you can utilize Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to effectively monitor and manage Oracle Exadata, followed by a deep dive into performance management techniques using instrumentation from Oracle Exadata storage servers, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c’s Automatic Workload Respository and Active Session History features, and SQL monitoring.

Tips and Tricks for migrating 10TB data from AIX (2 Nodes and v10.2.0.4)to Exadata X3 (8 Nodes and v11.2.0.3) with only 6 hours of downtime. Database included Oracle Label Security, 40 Partitioned Tables, 4 Tables with Oracle Text Indexes, LOB Columns for 5 Tables and for one table a CLOB column had not to be…

Learn how Oracle Exadata in conjunction with Oracle Database 12c and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c can help accelerate your move to a new model of database administration - enterprise Database as a Service. Hear how Oracle’s approach to Enterprise Database-as-a-Service allows you to consolidates and virtualizes hardware and software to dramatically reduce management and costs,…

This session will show you how you can utilize the OEM12c Metric Extensions and BI Publisher integration to boost the IO capacity monitoring of a large scale Exadata environment. The session will start with a use case highlighting an issue on a very write intensive OLTP Exadata environment and will discuss the different ways to…

This presentation will teach you the basics of Exadata & other Engineered Systems from a beginner's perspective, with experiences and examples that are intermediate level. It will go over the advantages of using this hardware and how the hardware components provide the speed that you'll realize implementing it. We will cover the following topics: •…

Original Broadcast 8.14.13 Database consolidation is an increasingly popular trend, both for improving resource utilization and for decreasing administrative overhead.  DBAs can consolidate multiple databases on a common server or consolidate applications within a database using schema consolidation.  In Oracle Database 12c, DBAs can also use the new multitenant capabilities to create Pluggable Databases within…

Marc tells the story of a real-world Exadata Database Machine deployment integrating OBIEE analytics and third-party ETL tools in a geographically distributed, high-availability architecture.

Big data is a big deal these days. Every CTO read about it and believes that with the right technology it is possible to deliver meaningful business insights from massive amounts of information in real time. And they are correct. However, many IT shops also believe that you need cutting technologies like NoSQL and Hadoop…