With 19c we get the tiny little command line tool that will allow us to update our databases "hands free."  We can do all the prechecks, fix 99% of pre-update issues, and then do the update, and finally, the post-update, all without our manual little fingers on the keyboard, well almost no little fingers on the keyboard.  Wait there is more, it is not all for just Database 19c we can use this on prior versions like 18.5 and new as well as 12c Release 2 (12.2 + DBJAN2019RU and newer).

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Robots may be the first to truly learn Machine Learning (ML) and expand into Artificial Intelligence (AI). Python is one of the keys to Machine Learning as we program the invention of Man's Mind to further replace man's most basic tasks. This session will focus on ML 101 and building the future ahead.

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Data Pump is one of the most widely used features by DBAs and comes free as a part of every database edition. With each release, more features and functionality are added to help move large volumes of data and metadata between and into Oracle databases. This session will cover the new features added to Data Pump for Oracle Database 20c, and also recap highlights of new features in 19c, 18c, and even 12.2.0.1. Whether you use Data Pump for table-mode exports, schemas, full databases, or transportable tablespace migrations, you will find new features to make your work faster and easier than ever before!

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Application infrastructures are not becoming simpler; they are becoming more complex. As companies increase the granularity of application architectures via microservices and microsegmented networks, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain constant connections from the application server to the database.

This presentation will explore those difficulties and provide some methods to understand how firewall timeouts and TCP KeepAlives interact.

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This presentation addresses the essential questions regarding JSON and the Oracle Database:
-How to load JSON documents into the database?
-Storing JSON documents or spreading the contents into relational tables?
-How do I create JSON files from data?
-How to query to large volumes of JSON documents fast and efficient?
-How do I publish JSON documents from the Database?

All those questions will be answered using examples and demos. This presentation contains detailed live demos. All demos will be made available for download.

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Anyone who’s familiar with tuning SQL knows that you need to get the execution plan for a query.  But once you’ve got an execution plan, what do you do with it?  Everyone understands that an execution plan is important for diagnosing, but almost no one knows how to answer questions like “which step in the execution plan is taking the longest?” “Which hardware component (CPU, Memory, Disk) is causing my query’s bottleneck?” “Is my parallel query making good use of its resources, or are they being wasted?”  If you have the Oracle Tuning and Diagnostic Pack license for your database and 30 seconds, you can find the answer to these questions--and more!

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This presentation explains the various data movement techniques of the Multitenant (MT) option to the Oracle Database.  The techniques discussed cover unplugging and plugging, cloning, CDB Fleet, Snapshot Carousel, CDB/PDB upgrades, and PDB refresh.  Related administrative topics such as charactersets, proxy PDBs, backup and recovery, Data Pump, RAC, and Data Guard topics are discussed.

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Learn best practices for upgrading Oracle RAC and GI. We will cover known issues and workarounds for critical components like ASM, GI, and Database.

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Your databases may contain sensitive personal data like Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, date of births, and salary information. Understanding in what tables and columns sensitive data resides is critical in protecting the data and ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR, PCI, and the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). However, sensitive data is like a weed and can spread quickly if not properly managed. The challenge is how to effectively and continuously find sensitive data, especially in extremely large databases and data warehouses.  This session will discuss methodologies and tools to find sensitive data such as by searching column names, crawling the database table by table, and performing data qualification to eliminate false positives.  Other locations where sensitive data might reside such as trace files, dynamic views (e.g., V$SQL_BIND_DATA), and materialized views will be reviewed.

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AsterionDB has pioneered the ability to seamlessly store and manage both structured and unstructured data in the Oracle Database.  We couple this with the ability to express any business logic required at the data-layer. These capabilities allow us to now build an architecture that can not be hacked. To be clear, hacking your API is not the same as hacking your architecture/platform. Hacking an API can be as simple as stealing a password - that's bad. Hacking an architecture is what happens when all of your files are stolen or locked up w/ ransomware. That's worse! This session will delve into the techniques required to build an impervious architecture that is easily adept at securing structured and unstructured data.