This lecture presents a centralized, secure and high available LDAP based Oracle naming service solution we developed and implemented in one major Canadian Bank capital market devision. It goes in-depth on how to extend Oracle context in Microsoft Lightweight Directory Service (LDS), load Oracle TNS entries to AD LDS in batch, manage TNS entries in…

Organizations increasingly choose EDB Postgres as a standardRDBMS for new and existing applications, as well as to complementtheir current Oracle infrastructure. DBAs and developers will learnabout the advantages of adding the flexibility of EDB Postgres to theirOracle environment. We also will address the vast similarities in thefeatures and overall architecture of Oracle and EDB Postgres thatenable skilled Oracle professionals to transition easily and migrateapplications more quickly. Customer examples will illustrate howindividual organizations achieved success integrating EDB Postgres intotheir Oracle environments.

The key to a successful Enterprise Manager deployment starts with the right HA (High-Availability) and DR (Disaster Recover) design. Learn how to build an Enterprise Manager system from the ground up in a flexible way, capable of extending and expanding with the growing administration and monitoring needs

Exadata has many compelling technical advantages. When Exadata is deployed with ZFS, the results are capabilities beyond the sum of the part. I'd like to share experience gained from using these technologies together, in an manner beyond conventional consideration.

The challenge with every new release of the Oracle Database is how does one get there? In this presentation we will discuss the various methods to take your database to 12c along with the pros and cons of each. The challenge is to look at your applications, how they use the database and how much…

Databases continue to get bigger and bigger. The database management system and associated components have becomes more advanced to sift through large amounts of data. Why haven’t backup and recovery strategies kept pace? We will cover the questions you should ask yourself about your current backup and recovery strategy to help you evaluate the effectiveness…

This seminar is designed to be a primer on the Oracle Database Diagnostic and Tuning Packs. These packs have powerful tools which are not only good for DBAs but they can also help application developers test, diagnose and tune their code. The Diagnostic Pack has tools that analyze performance at the database instance level and…

In this article, Lipowitz demonstrates the unusual case where gathering statistics, and gathering statistics alone, drastically changes execution plans.

This presentation will demonstrate how to use Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.0 to learn Oracle technologies. Virtualbox makes it easy (and inexpensive) to create cross-platform sandbox environments for testing and development. Developers and DBAs can benefit from the ability to provision and distribute pre-packaged Virtualbox images. Oracle Technology Network also provides a pre-configured Oracle environment for…

RAC and Clusterware are complex environments to administer and even more so when there are problems. Learn about various tools and utilities which can be used to troubleshoot, instrument and diagnose these problems.