Proper design of an application includes security plans, which ensure that specific data is available only to specific user groups. Application design should also include security plans for guarding against data or application tampering. These two aspects can easily be set aside while developers are caught up in the p…

Big Data is growing exponentially, requiring massive-scale infrastructure however, business analytics has shifted from reactive to proactive analysis; this is the era of streaming data (a.k.a. Fast Data). Apache Hadoop is very good for analyzing data at rest but cannot handle streaming data. Big Data analytics ne…

The only group of Oracle specialists that continues to stay outside of the cloud hype are server-side developers. Everybody else (from CFOs to DBAs) are frantically trying to figure out what is happening and how to survive in the rapidly changing environment. Nevertheless, developers still hope that either thei…

This talk covers a real-world solution, that recreates database links using ORDS, REST and JSON. It breaks the limits of database links by loosely coupling two databases. The complexity is completely hidden from users and developers. Modern technologies such as REST and JSON offer elegant ways to couple data…

This talk is all about how an Oracle DBA has been using the Python programming language in his work and why Python might be a good language for other DBAs to use. There are hundreds of programming and scripting languages. Why Python? Also, database administrators are not full time programmers. Sho…

Database Security is important to understand and implement for data protection from insider and external threats. The cloud is another environment to make sure that the data is secure in the cloud and in transit. There are options and products available in the Oracle Cloud that can be utilized and DBAs and…

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Original Broadcast: July 18, 2017 VMware environments are complex—with custom VMs, multiple subnets, and various virtual appliances. Traditionally, it takes months to “migrate” a VMware virtualized enterprise application to the public cloud. Oracle Ravello Cloud Service has changed all that. In this session, you…