Disaster Recovery planning is the most important aspect of a DBA's job. Oracle 11g and RMAN provide robust methods of testing an actual restoration of your database to an alternative platform. This talk will provide a real-life, step-by-step example of how to restore a production instance to a development platform using RMAN and NetBackup, leaving…

Strategies for implementing gadget based websites with Oracle WebCenter Sites

SQL is arguably the world's most popular programming language today, and SQL database servers and systems are used in the majority of mission-critical business applications. However, many applications need capabilities such as transactions, concurrency, and high performance usually associated with database servers, without the query flexibility or overhead of SQL. Oracle Berkeley Database transactional key-value…

With the great interest in ‘Big Data’ solutions, hear why the Oracle platform is perfect for ‘Big Data’ requirements with analytic and SQL capabilities to join ALL data types, including relational, Spatial, XML, text, semantics, multimedia and other unstructured data. Get an introduction into the features in Oracle Database for storing, managing and analyzing unstructured…

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.

Are you paying your top Oracle DBA’s to reset passwords and perform user management? Typical Oracle database shops have numerous databases for their different applications. Without a centralized user management solution, this forces the DBA’s to burn cycles on user management tasks to ensure users have the proper access. Implementing Enterprise User Security will rid…

Even if you are a newbie to Oracle DBA profession, you know one thing is guaranteed - there will be an issue with performance at some point. How do you plan your activity? In this session, you will learn a methodical approach to troubleshooting performance issues in Oracle - making you more effective by executing…

The Automatic Workload Repository is a powerful feature that was introduced in Oracle 10g and improved in Oracle 11g. Learn how you can utilize that power at an Enterprise level by bringing your Automatic Workload Repository data together into a central repository to compare reports across databases in your Enterprise; keeping snapshot data for longer…