Original Broadcast: May 2, 2017 IT organizations running Oracle RAC are faced with a wide range of choices to evaluate when considering a move to new infrastructure. Flash Storage is growing rapidly but what benefits does it bring to Oracle? What are the key best practices to follow to ensure a balanced configuration which can…

Original Broadcast: April 27, 2017 As DBAs already know, storage responsiveness is critical to database performance. Unfortunately, most storage arrays are unaware of database workload requirements and treat all I/Os the same. To solve these challenges, Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol (OISP) was introduced with Oracle Database 12c With OISP, the database sends hints to Oracle…

Original Broadcast: April 26, 2017 Featured Speaker: Gary Crisci | Download Slide Deck | | Download Recording |

Original Broadcast: April 26, 2017 I've been working to bring Exadata into Walgreens Boots Alliance EMEA since mid 2015. The first workloads are now live and we're planning other ones.    WBA is the world's largest pharmacy-led pharmaceutical company, with nearly 500,000 employees, globally, working in at least 45 countries.    The level of technical…

Original Broadcast: April 25, 2017
Exadata has become one of the most popular Database machine recently and I have seen a lot of Exadata customer trying to Implement Exadata themselves. Customers have many reasons to implement Exadata by themselves but most of the time its money, they think it’s too expensive to hire a True Exadata Consultant. It’s important to understand that there is a different between Exadata Migration and Exadata Implementation and If you don’t have skills to implement Exadata in-house, most like your will end up just doing a data migration. Not only, you will not achieve extreme performance from your Exadata Machine, you will not get good return on your investment due to higher utilization of Hardware Resources.

Original Broadcast: April 25, 2017 The purpose of this presentation is to provide real-world augmented database migration procedures that allowed us to successfully achieve the migrations of 54 business critical databases to Exadata x5-2 of different sizes and Operating Systems. The presentation will layout the different possible migration technologies that meets the business demands such…

Original Broadcast: April 25, 2017 Security configuration and features are available at many levels in Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Attend this session and learn security fundamentals directly from Oracle Development.  This session will focus on the storage and OS layers with an overview of the database-layer security options and best practices. We will outline necessary…

When considering high availability the key focus is aimed at maintaining the database and its associated systems. Oracle offers customers a comprehensive set of database high availability capabilities that seamlessly work together to help reduce both planned and unplanned downtime. In addition, Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) provides customers with a best practices blueprint that…

Attendees are introduced to new and improved features of Oracle 12c directly impacting application development. Special emphasis is given to features that reduce development time, make development simpler, improve performance, or speed deployment. Specific topics include: IDENTITY columns, improved SEQUENCEs, INVISIBLE columns, improved defaults, JSON enablement, APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT function, security enhancements, PL/SQL interoperability improvements, outer-join improvements,…