Original Broadcast: January 19, 2017 There's no such thing as a self-driving database. If you expect your Oracle databases to perform consistently at high levels, you need to have a maintenance program. The first part of that program is an assessment. Presenter Megan Elphingstone, Senior Oracle DBA for Datavail will show the audience how Datavail…

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Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control has been the flagship product for managing Oracle software. The latest release, Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c, combines infrastructure management (for virtualization, servers, storage, and network) with existing software management making it the only provider of comprehensive app-to-disk systems management. This session covers how Oracle Enterprise Manager can manage servers (X,…

So you’ve heard about the major new features of Oracle BI 12c, including Visual Analyzer, Data Mashups, and BI Ask, but what’s it *really* like to upgrade to BI 12c?  How do you ensure that the upgrade process goes smoothly?  Sure, VA looks exciting, but what about the library of dashboards and analyses you’ve built…

Many enterprise have data in Oracle Databases, so with the avaliability of Hadoop, one can build a commodity cluster to process large amounts of data, and then use OLH (Oracle Loader for Hadoop) to load an Oracle Database 12C table with the in-memory feature. The lab focus is to first understand the Java M-R (Map-Reduce) programming paradigm which is the basis of OLH,…

Over the past seven years we've seen what is clearly a 3rd era in database management as the relational database  hegemony has given way to a diverse set of alternatives including Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Cassandra and MongoDB, augmented by technologies such as Kafka, Drill and others.   But these next generation data platforms are mutating rapidly: we're on a journey - but…

This presentation will cover Oracle’s Acceleration and the Cycles of Innovation in the world.  We’ll then look at the current Big Data Revolution and some of the solutions out there, as well as Oracle’s Big Data Solution.  We will review the role that both Google and Facebook have played in the Big Data Ecosystem and…

Oracle Redaction and Transparent Data Encryption are the most advanced features available in Oracle12c to guarantee optimal database security and data protection, by utilizing a combination of encryption standards and data retrieval methods and policies beyond SQL execution, which enable specialized administrators to fully condition access to private information, using encryption, row-level with either role-driven or…

With each new release of Oracle, the optimizer undergoes changes usually for the better, but sometimes there are unexpected side effects as well. This presentation will explore all of the new optimizer features, adaptive plans/statistics, and the changes to SQL plan management. Several case studies will show how it works, so you can quickly take…