Tag: Oracle Database Appliance

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

The database administration role as we knew it is dead.  DBAs who have been around for decades have become irrelevant in this data-driven economy.  Developers want autonomous management and executive leaders want to cut costs any way they can.  Join Oracle community experts as we discuss the next evolutionary role of the database administration role and what we must do to adapt and survive in this ever-changing dynamic technology-driven world.  Learn what future skills you need to possess and how you can stay on top of the demand.

Discussions will include how technical enhancements to autonomous databases, cloud innovations, and what you must learn to survive, how AI and machine learning can impact the database scene, and understanding which technologies you need to learn to adapt.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Nobody likes patching but it needs to be done. In this session learn directly from the Oracle Database Upgrade and Grid Infrastructure development teams about patching best practices and the latest enhancements to Oracle's patching infrastructure. Get hints and tips about the best ways to minimize disruption when patching your environment. No matter whether you use Oracle Real Application Clusters with Grid Infrastructure or you use Oracle Java Virtual Machine, this session offers a lot of real-world best practices directly from the experts.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for your on-premise, hybrid, and cloud estate through a single pane of glass. Through its holistic approach, Oracle Enterprise Manager offers rich features as a foundation for monitoring all components of your IT infrastructure. This session gives valuable insight into monitoring best practices with Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c. Learn practical tips and strategies with common use cases to simplify and streamline monitoring of your IT ecosystem. Drill-down topics covered include best practices, common challenges, and new features in monitoring including Intelligent Incident Compression, Always-On Monitoring, login page customization, consolidating alerts, and more.

SGA Tuning 101
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Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Correctly setting up your SGA correctly goes beyond simply setting MEMORY_TARGET and MEMORY_MAX_TARGET. There are minimum settings for various pools that need to be considered. A methodology for setting these as well as ongoing tracking and adjustment is presented here, along with a handy worksheet for working calculating your settings.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

To properly secure an Oracle database requires significant effort and often expensive security add-on products.  The Thrifty DBA likes having secure databases but doesn’t like to spend money on expensive security products when equivalent zero or low-cost solutions are available.  The Thrifty DBA will review and demonstrate open source security solutions that are effective in solving your database security challenges such as tools for database auditing and checking database security as well as useful security-related SQL Developer extensions.

Database 19c pluggable databases offer numerous options for the cloud. In this session, walk through Exadata Multitenant for cloud/on-premise databases. Topics covered include container database (CDB)/pluggable database (PDB) concepts, PDB value, shared/exclusive components, and accessing CDBs/PDBs. The session briefly covers migration options to 12c/18c from previous versions and then delves into Oracle Database 12c R2/18c features including PDB relocate, lockdown profiles, system global area/program global area for PDB, memory I/O resource prioritization, snapshot carousel, dynamic lockdown profiles, CDB fleet management, and new features in Oracle Database 19c if time permits.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

New in Oracle 20c is the Autonomous Health Service that supports centralized diagnostic monitoring of your on-premise Oracle RAC database clusters. Learn how to free up local cluster resources and improve monitoring efficiency with this centralized service-based solution. Practical tips and best practices for setup will be covered along with a demonstration of its responsive browser-based dashboard and triage console. Specific RAC database, ASM, and cluster issues will be rapidly triaged utilizing the built-in support for Trace File Analyzer and ORAchk/EXAchk collections, Cluster Health Advisor problem diagnosis, Hang Manager and Memory Guard events and QoS Management workload performance metrics.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

It is true. You can laugh your way to understanding queuing theory, performance analysis and why systems behave the way they do.

From driving in traffic to being served at a restaurant, every person feels the impact of queuing theory. Queuing theory beautifully relates time and work into terms we can feel, like utilization, workload intensity, response time, elapsed time and systems architecture design.

With only the basics we can use foundational queuing theory to derive targeted performance solutions and goals, filter and evaluate any performance solution thrown at us and help non-technical people understand why our solutions make perfect sense.

Join us for a shockingly practical and fun session that will impact your Oracle career and beyond.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Learn how to set up and configure and utilize the Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool.  The tool can help with data and database security best practices and options.  The tool can also help you uncover the sensitivity in your databases so that you and implement ways to better protect your data.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Competitive businesses rely on database as a service (DBaaS) to provide the agility needed to meet quickly changing market requirements and respond to demands for additional services. In this session learn how customers create and implement a DBaaS platform on top of Exadata, which provides rapid provisioning of databases from a service catalog, as well as integrated Oracle Recovery Manager backup and automated security compliance checks. In addition, learn how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c to deliver powerful DBaaS capabilities for consolidation.