Planning your migration from Oracle RDBMS 11g to Oracle RDBMS 12c?  Considering the use of container databases?  From a Capacity Planning and Performance perspective, how can we fit our 11g workloads into a rightsized 12c environment? Should we consolidate our RAC/Grid infrastructure into SMP?  Do we consider hyperconverged infrastructure? Here's a methodology to determine the…

Learn from Oracle Product Management about the new Oracle GoldenGate 12.2 new features. This deep dive, technical session covers the new features that make Oracle GoldenGate easier to use, highly scalable and more flexible than ever. This session will also cover the Oracle GoldenGate Big Data features and how to deploy OGG in cloud environments.

Organizations increasingly choose EDB Postgres as a standardRDBMS for new and existing applications, as well as to complementtheir current Oracle infrastructure. DBAs and developers will learnabout the advantages of adding the flexibility of EDB Postgres to theirOracle environment. We also will address the vast similarities in thefeatures and overall architecture of Oracle and EDB Postgres thatenable skilled Oracle professionals to transition easily and migrateapplications more quickly. Customer examples will illustrate howindividual organizations achieved success integrating EDB Postgres intotheir Oracle environments.

The key to a successful Enterprise Manager deployment starts with the right HA (High-Availability) and DR (Disaster Recover) design. Learn how to build an Enterprise Manager system from the ground up in a flexible way, capable of extending and expanding with the growing administration and monitoring needs

Exadata has many compelling technical advantages. When Exadata is deployed with ZFS, the results are capabilities beyond the sum of the part. I'd like to share experience gained from using these technologies together, in an manner beyond conventional consideration.

The challenge with every new release of the Oracle Database is how does one get there? In this presentation we will discuss the various methods to take your database to 12c along with the pros and cons of each. The challenge is to look at your applications, how they use the database and how much…

Databases continue to get bigger and bigger. The database management system and associated components have becomes more advanced to sift through large amounts of data. Why haven’t backup and recovery strategies kept pace? We will cover the questions you should ask yourself about your current backup and recovery strategy to help you evaluate the effectiveness…

This seminar is designed to be a primer on the Oracle Database Diagnostic and Tuning Packs. These packs have powerful tools which are not only good for DBAs but they can also help application developers test, diagnose and tune their code. The Diagnostic Pack has tools that analyze performance at the database instance level and…

In this article, Lipowitz demonstrates the unusual case where gathering statistics, and gathering statistics alone, drastically changes execution plans.