Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Demystify the world's 5th most popular Database engine!  If you don't support MongoDB now, chances are that you will in the future. This session will explain the basic concepts of MongoDB in terms that an Oracle DBA will readily understand. It will also review how to install and administer MongoDB, and give some simple DML and DDL examples, and show you where to find more information about MongoDB.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

One of the most common SQL Tuning problems is when the Oracle cost-based optimizer misestimates the expected number of rows that will be returned from an execution plan row source operation. This presentation delves into uncharted waters to help attendees understand strategies for dealing with cardinality misestimates.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Trace File Analyzer includes features and tools to help Oracle customers achieve improved outcomes when creating service requests and interacting with Oracle Support. Learn how to leverage these components to speed and automate creation of service requests, target collection for specific issues, and use the SQL Test Case Builder to assist Oracle Support investigations of database and performance issues.

Participants will learn:
-How to use the advanced diagnostic features in TFA to create targeted collections based on specific conditions and events.
-Ways to connect TFA to MOS and upload files directly to Service Requests.
-How to use the SQL Test Case Builder to create and share performance incidents and reproduce problematic SQL on other databases.
-How to automate collections, create notifications, and view, package and manage RDA incidents from within TFA and Autonomous Health Framework.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Active Data Guard have long been the answer for the real-time protection, availability, and usability of Oracle data. Attend this session to get an in-depth look at several key new features that will make your life easier and protect your data in new and more flexible ways. Learn how Oracle Active Data Guard 19c has been integrated with Oracle Database In-Memory and offers a faster application response after a role transition. See how DML can now be redirected from an Oracle Active Data Guard standby to its primary for more flexible data protection in today’s data centers or your data clouds. Leave this technical deep-dive session with a glimpse of upcoming new features brought to you by Oracle Development.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

The adoption of Kafka in enterprise is becoming more prevalent with the Oracle Database as being a common source/target. With the Kafka community talking about being an Event Streaming Database, Oracle DBAs are confused about exactly what Kafka is and what it can do that an Oracle Database can't do. In this session, Kafka will be compared to the Oracle Database through the lens of an Oracle DBA.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Have you moved beyond just sending alerts and monitoring performance in OEM?  If not, learn the top 5 things that you should be doing to take your game to the next level.  Topics will include high availability, standby management, configuration management, and more!

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

In this session join Oracle Database Product Management to learn more about using JSON in the Oracle Database. Learn about some of the new innovative ways that the Oracle Database can be used to load, store, and manage JSON and take advantage of the enterprise class features that Oracle provides so well.

We will also take a look into the unique Oracle Database features to leverage memory-persistent technologies for fast ingestion and retrieval of attribute-value pair data.  Other topics that are covered include the SQL language enhancements for complete flexibility and ease of use when working with JSON.

The session will also be discussing some of the enhancements being released in Oracle Database 20c for addressing the use of JSON.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

With Oracle's release of Autonomous DataWarehouse, Autonomous Database, and Autonomous Transaction Processing, we are entering a new era in database administration.  How is an old-school DBA supposed to survive in this brave new world of automation?  Are my existing skills obsolete? Am I out of a job? Never fear.  In this session, we'll discuss what exactly all this autonomous fuss is all about and what it will mean to the daily life of a DBA.  We'll draw comparisons to (soon to be legacy) tasks that all DBA's are comfortable with and how these tasks will be handled in an autonomous world.  We'll show you how to leverage your old school skills to be your biggest advantage in an autonomous world and position you to take your career to the next level in an Autonomous World.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

New DBA's hear stories from their experienced peers about databases being recovered from certain failure and the heroics involved, but what's the reason for those successes? One of the main tools, used by the savior DBA, is the Recovery Manager: RMAN. We're entrusted with our customer's data and the novice DBA has to know how to respond to database failures and recover from them. During this talk, the essentials of RMAN will be covered: concepts, setup, and usage scenarios. Afterward, with these resources in hand, attendees will have the preparation needed to start using RMAN.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

The most on-premises installations of Oracle databases are not using all available Oracle database packs and features. The reasons behind that could be different but one factor is always there and it is the cost. In Oracle cloud depending on service and edition, you may have a different set of features already included in the subscription. In such a case it is worth verifying and consider the new options since you are already paying for them.  And, who knows, maybe the availability of all those features will make migration to the cloud way more attractive and be one of the main drivers for your decision to move to the Oracle cloud.