This session will cover specific Oracle Multitenant best practices as garnered from direct customer experience in production deployments as well as internal Oracle deployments and benchmarks. The session will include deployment road map as well as detailed system configuration, database attributes to evaluate for consolidation, targeted  compute patterns for efficient consolidation and effective resource management.…

Originally introduced in Release 12.1.0.2, Database In-Memory (DBIM) offers the ability for analytic queries to sift through billions of rows at incredible speed because data is now retained in columnar format in the In-Memory Column Store (IMCS). Oracle Database 12cR2 dramatically expands the capabilities of DBIM, making it even simpler to implement, monitor, and manage…

Consolidating database servers can go a long way toward streamlining your IT, but it still leaves you with several different databases to back up, upgrade and monitor. In this session, you will learn how Oracle multitenant architecture can free you from riding herd over multiple databases, so you can focus on the strategic initiatives that drive…

NOTE - this is v2.0 update of a session delivered at Collaborate last year... REST or Representational State Transfer is a design style that has become the most important technology for applications and services deploying on the web today. Consequently, Oracle has also embraced RESTful services and has exposed a rich set of tools and…

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 offers so many new features that only a panel of Oracle ACEs can do them justice. In this session Oracle ACEs Jim Czuprynski, Anuj Mohan , Kai Yu and Seth Miller from IOUG will discuss about key new features introduced in Oracle 12c R2 . We will share our experience on extensive beta testing and see how any Oracle DBA can take immediate advantage of these new capabilities.

Have you ever experienced an unexpected rush of users on the system which almost ground it to a halt? Have you ever had to approach management with a request for more resources due to poor performance in tight budget times?  This presentation will discuss how to potentially avoid these situations in advance though load testing. …

SQL Tuning is a Science. SQL Tuning is an Art. You may have heard both claims. SQL Tuning can indeed be a complex task requiring the use of some attributes of both brain hemispheres: Analytical Thinking and Creativity. If we want to enhance our SQL Tuning skills we may need then to take them both…

      Most everyone knows an Oracle wallet is a password-protected container that can store authentication credentials, including traditional database passwords and PKI certificates, but did you know some of the slick ways in which an Oracle wallet can be leveraged?  Most people use wallets to store PKI credentials, but if you use it…

Demystify the world's 4th most popular Database engine!  If you don't support MongoDB now, chances are that you will in the future. This session will explain the basic concepts of MongoDB in terms that an Oracle DBA will readily understand. It will also review how to install and administer MongoDB, and give some simple DML…

Performance tuning can be complex. It's often hard to know which knob to turn or button to press to get the biggest performance boost. In this presentation, Janis Griffin, database performance evangelist, SolarWinds, will detail 5 steps to quickly identify performance issues and resolve them. Attendees at this session will learn how to: Quickly fine…