Oracle recently acquired Fatwire, a Web Experience Management product, and renamed it WebCenter Sites. What does this mean for existing Site Studio customers? In this talk, we will give you a run-down on the similarities, differences, and new features that are available. We will also give guidance on how to migrate, or have two systems…

Program Global Area (PGA) resides in the process private memory of the server process. PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET is used to control the sizing of workareas. Often improper setup and incomplete understanding of the inner working of PGA and the interconnectivity with OS settings leads to ORA-4030 errors, which are raised when memory or resources are requested from…

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c has introduced many new features that cover many different areas. Some of the new features are especially useful for the database administrator, such as visualization of performance data using ASH. This and other features have improved the management capabilities of the DBA.
Several exercises provide the student with the skills necessary to identify and isolate performance problems.

Oracle VM Server for x86 is Oracle’s virtualization product for the commodity hardware platform. This product is the only virtualization product supported by Oracle for database virtualization. Edward Whalen is the author of the newly published book “Oracle VM Implementation and Administration” from Oracle Press. In this session he will cover an introduction to the…

Oracle VM provides two major categories of virtual machines; HVM and Paravirtualized. The HVM or Hardware Virtualized Machine is able to take advantage of hardware acceleration features built into the x86 chipset to accelerate certain operations. The Paravirtualized machine is able to take advantage of more efficient device drivers, thus accelerating network and I/O operations.…

Oracle WebCenter Content 10g functionality was effectively contained in one container - the Content Server. This fact alone made it easy to deploy, administer, and customize. However, for all of these easy capabilities, the product was somewhat lacking on the scalability and performance side. With Oracle WebCenter Content 11g, and the inclusion of Oracle Weblogic Server, SOA and BPM, the product has expanded functionality and best-in-class performance and scalability. The new trade off is that these additional infrastructure components have created a layer of complexity causing delayed deployments and non-optimized systems. Come to this session as we discuss some strategies and tactics for tuning WebCenter Content 11g, including details around how and when to use reverse proxy and load balancing, so that you can truly optimize WebCenter and maximize your investment.

Oracle Server, the flagship database, has many features familiar to Oracle DBAs for daily operation of solid production environments. These same DBAs are now expected to manage Oracle's MySQL that is being adopted by many companies. We explore the full life cycle and tools of a robust commercial MySQL environment, from development through production, as…

RMAN is a must-have tool familiar to most Oracle DBAs. There are many capabilities hidden in RMAN and going beyond the basics is important. After a quick review of the core functionality, we will discuss both old and new features and provide tips and tricks along with sample code using the Command Line Interface (CLI).

The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. MITRE manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), partnering with government sponsors to support their critical operational missions. MITRE’s Records Management department needed to deploy a system to help manage physical content and electronic records not just for retention, but…

Ever wondered how Oracle locks a row, or a table? Is there a master lock manager? No, there is not. In this session you will learn how Oracle manages the locking with demos, how ITL slots are used and how you can avoid the issues related to ITL slots. Also learn how unindexed Foreign Keys…