To properly secure an Oracle database requires significant effort and often expensive security add-on products.  The Thrifty DBA likes having secure databases, but doesn’t like to spend money on expensive security products when equivalent zero or low-cost solutions are available.  The Thrifty DBA will show you thrifty yet effective auditing and logging solutions for the…

In this session I will share some of experience on migrate or upgrading different versions of Oracle databases to the Oracle 12cR2. This session will discuss the difference between upgrade and upgrade when you should use which method. We will also focus the latest 12cR2 upgrade tools and various upgrade 12cR2 paths/methods that help you…

Oracle 12.1 Multitenant  offers cost effective, high database consolidation density coupled with excellent isolation.  The Oracle 12.2 Multitenant new feature called Application Containers significantly improves agile application deployment and  management at scale.  When used in accordance with best practices, Application Containers plays a vital part in agile development for Continuous integration-Continuous Delivery (CICD) application development models.  This session will introduce the basic…

Do you want to surf a tidal wave of performance? Oracle Database In-Memory, with its industry-first dual row/column in-memory format has you covered! In this session we will introduce Database In-Memory and review some of its class leading technologies that enable billions of rows per second analytic data access while simultaneously enabling superfast OLTP performance.…

The open source streaming data platform, Kafka, is taking the world by storm. In their own predictions for 2017 Oracle even asserted that “Kafka looks to be the runaway Big Data technology of 2017”. This being the case there's no better time to start learning it. So what is it? Well, technically speaking it is…

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…

Managing a large multitenant database with many pluggable database can be a difficult task. Many PDBs fight for the server resources like I/O, CPU and memory. It can be difficult to keep the SLAs agreed with your customers. Oracle Database 12c Release 2 offers improvments in resource management for PDBs and a new feature called…

Make the database smarter? Isn't it already smart enough? Well...no it isn't.  The Oracle Database provides a rich environment for the expression and incorporation of business logic within the data-layer. As powerful as PL/SQL is, it still hits a limit that forces logic to be implemented in the middle or client tier.  This presentation will…

The (Un)loved Child of Generation Cloud: Oracle Performance on VMware Virtualization as a backbone technology - an all-time-high topic, and much older than the current buzzword wit the capital C. Not uncomplicated regarding licensing and handling, such a hypervisor hides a bunch of nasty surprises for the unprepared. The talk will have a focus on…

VMware vSphere 6.5 has made a lot of changes to enhance the performance of Monster virtual machines (VMs). Databases by their very nature are the classic Monster VMs. If Monster VMs are not virtualized properly, they will never perform well and can negatively impact the performance of other VMs on the hosts. In this presentation, we will teach you how to properly virtualize Monster VMs/databases with vSphere 6.5 (Lesson’s Apply to any Virtualized Platform) We will discuss why you should virtualize and take a look at some installation issues as well as how to architect for performance in terms of vSphere 6.5 specifics, including the storage layer, the processor, memory considerations, and the network layer. Topics will also include NUMA, memory reservations, and how to avoid common mistakes. These lessons will help you optimize any workload you are virtualizing. This session will cover both Oracle & Microsoft SQL Server. This session made Top 10 At Both VMworld USA & VMworld EMEA.