Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

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!

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

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.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

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.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

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!

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

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.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

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

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

First introduced in 12cR2, Oracle Sharding was further improved in 18c/19c for linear scalability and complete fault isolation of OLTP workloads. With Oracle, sharding data are partitioned horizontally partitioned across discrete  Oracle Databases (shards) in shared-nothing architecture that collectively form a single logical database. Come to this session to learn its latest improvements in Oracle 19c and 20c, sharding on database cloud(DBCS) and leveraging sharding for your business. We will share the experience and tips of configuring sharded database architecture with HA  replication for massive scalability and complete fault isolation. We will also discuss some of the considerations of choosing the sharding method in a global geographic distribution application and some experience of using the Sharding Advisor tool.  We will also discuss some new sharding features that are coming in Oracle 20c such as Federated Sharding and sharding with database in Persistent memory.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

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.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

DBAs spend time dealing with maintenance, security, and outage issues with little time for innovation. Self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing Autonomous Databases free data professionals to leverage their domain knowledge and data skills to extract more value from data. Oracle Machine Learning, part of Autonomous Database, “moves the algorithms to the data” for in-database processing of machine learning algorithms that eliminate data movement. Now, the entire machine learning process:  problem statement, data understanding and preparation, model building and evaluation, model apply and model deployment runs inside the Oracle Database.   Database developers perform many supporting tasks today, typically 80% of the work, but refer to them as ETL, data wrangling, data transformations, and productionizing scripts.   Come learn how ADW, ATP, and Oracle Machine Learning makes it easy for you to easily expand your valuable data skills and become “data scientists” in just 6 weeks!

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Hello, Oracle Database 19c SIG Members! We hope that you are taking full advantage of Quest Forum Digital Event. We are setting up this first Database 19c SIG members call. I will kick-off the call with an introduction of the Database 19c SIG. I will give a high-level introduction of 19c new features and take any questions you have. I will discuss plans for 2020. At the end, I will open the call to get your inputs and understand key topics you want to know more.