Companies today ‘breathe’ data, and it is one of the most important assets of any business. The DBA stands at a critical juncture as both guardian and gatekeeper of this lifeblood. As gatekeeper the DBA has an often under-appreciated potential as enabler and information hub. Working from this premise the session discusses this mindset and…

As the complexities of Oracle solutions continue to grow, providing IT environments a simplified way to automate key processes of software delivery and changes within IT infrastructure is of utmost importance. With the use of containers, system administrators, database administrators, and software developers can take advantage of delivering Oracle databases and their closely tied applications…

Oracle Enterprise Manager is one of the most versatile manageability tool in the market helping enterprises to monitor and enabling Application-to-Disk management  through a single pane of glass for all data center components.As an Enterprise Manager administrator you are responsible of a wide variety of tasks including discovering and maintaining targets, deploying plugins, tuning OEM…

One important thing the cloud (r)evolution has already brought is the switch from thinking in classic physical terms, to more (cloud) service based thinking.But just how do you model a (cloud) service in Enterprise Manager? And how can you get the right level of detail information (dashboards) from those without over-alerting or over-monitoring the various…

The importance of adequate code management is well-understood by anybody in the IT. Unfortunately, the practical implementation of this concept is usually left to be defined by managers and administrators, while people who actually write code (i.e. developers) are kept outside of the discussion and just being told what to do. As a result, too…

While APEX 5.0 was primarily focused on developer productivity and creating modern user interfaces, APEX 5.1 will be a huge leap in end user productivity. See how the Interactive Grid will bring dynamic, rich-client reporting and multi-row editing capabilities to your APEX applications and how the new, powerful charting engine - based on Oracle’s own JavaScript…

As the tools landscape gets overrun with more development tools and buzzwords it becomes less clear when and why we should use what. This session will give an overview of the Oracle development tools landscape. We will discuss each tool, the benefits and drawbacks and which tool is suitable for which type of application. We…

Migration to the cloud is a process that takes significant planning and effort. In this session learn about migration from Oracle Database On-Premise to the Oracle Database Cloud, including examples and techniques for easy migration.

Containers have taken the IT world by storm, and for good reason. The reduction in setup time, administration time, and resource consumption that containers provide makes a very strong case for using container technologies throughout the data center. Docker can be used to containerize many applications, including the Oracle Database. While Oracle Database is not…

EDB Postgres Platform 2017 provides a robust, scalable, and highly available data management solution that supports the PL/SQL standard and offers Oracle customers a way to leverage an open source based solution to lower costs while maintaining compatibility with their existing Oracle DBMS footprint. We'll cover not only the EDB Postgres Advanced Server DBMS, but also…