From driving in traffic to being served at a restaurant, every person feels the impact of queuing theory. Queuing theory beautifully relates time and work into terms we can feel, like utilization, workload intensity, response time, elapsed time and systems architecture design. With only the basics we can use queuing theory to derive targeted performance…

Managing/deploying code changes is an essential task in all software development projects.  It’s a problem that’s largely solved for application code, however, it’s still a challenge in many projects to manage database schema changes.

With the release of 12c, Oracle introduced a licensed option, the Database Lifecycle Management Pack to address this issue.  I’ll be discussing an open source alternative called “Liquibase”. I’ll describe how to support multiple developers working on several branches and how to manage thousands of schemas deployed in heterogeneous database environments.

I’ll show you how to migrate existing database schema code, create a strategy to minimize upgrade time and how to extend the framework to enhance its capabilities.

Big data is one of the biggest buzzword in today's market. Terms like Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, Sqoop, and non-structured data has been scaring DBA's since 2010 - but where does the DBA team really fit in? In this session, we will discuss everything database administrators and database developers needs to know about big data. We…

This hands-on-lab will help you to understand the concept of data virtualization and how it is used to provision virtual databases and applications. You'll learn how to create, refresh and rewind virutal databases.

The session will Introduce key new features that will be available with "Oracle Real Application Clusters 12c Release 2" Introduce best practices for deployment, Management, Availability and Performance tuning Cover internals of the key features so DBA's can understand how the feature will help with their day-to-day activities

An OS memory shortage can cause bizarre and intense performance situations. In this presentation we will explore different ways to tell if there is a memory shortage and how this affects Oracle performance. First I'll explain operating system process memory, including how to tell how much memory a process is truly consuming. Then I will…

While some things never change, some things do. And it's the things that change that can have a huge impact on us and our families. The cloud is another change Oracle DBAs must face. The cloud is here stay which means as Oracle DBAs we need to adjust or get out of the game. It…

A vibrant session with “Real Tips” for real world daily database problems a DBA could find. Here you will learn how to improve your productivity, how to solve some real DBA problems and also learn several tips to help you to become a successful DBA. This session is based on some of the most frequent…

A vibrant live session from DBAs to DBAs that will take you on an amazing trip to discover how a DBA could make the best use of all Oracle Cloud options and tools available for you (Including Backup in the Cloud and working with VPN Tunnels). Discover how Oracle Cloud works, looks and feel in a breeze.