Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

CSS and Oracle recently collaborated on a Procurement Cloud E-Book, A Guide To Developing a Responsive Cloud-Based Procurement Process. In this session, we will share some insights about the importance of supplier management and sourcing for organizations considering Procurement Cloud and currently running JD Edwards.

We'll refer to some client implementations and provide some options for organizations considering adding Procurement Cloud to the mix.

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

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.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

An exciting new feature of Oracle Database 18c and 19c is "Centrally Managed Users" (CMU). This, for the first time, allows for simple and complete database singe sign-on (SSO) and user management integration with Microsoft Active Directory (AD). No additional licenses required!

Previously, Oracle Enterprise User Security (EUS) and Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) were needed as an intermediate component bridging the Oracle Database to Active Directory. And while EUS/OUD is still present and does offer some additional features and benefits, it's no longer required for database-AD user integration and management.

This presentation details the advantages of using CMU over the previous technologies, covers the installation/set-up process, and gives practical examples and use cases for organizations to leverage and benefit from the simplified integration of database user management (authentication and authorization) with AD.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

This presentation will focus on preparing for the Oracle 20c database and new features such as AutoML.  This presentation will also look at a few 19c/18c new features that should be in use now.  We'll look at how Machine Learning and Autonomous Database will change the role of the future DBA.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Join Oracle development for the latest updates on high availability (HA) best practices in this well-established technical deep-dive session. Learn how to optimize all aspects of Oracle Active Data Guard 19c. See how to use session draining, transparent application continuity, Oracle RAC, and Oracle GoldenGate to mask outages and planned maintenance from users and to accelerate time to repair for single database or your fleet of databases. Hear about the latest HA best practices with Oracle Multitenant and understand how the new sharded architecture can achieve even higher levels of HA and fault isolation for OLTP applications. Find out how everything you know about Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) on-premises can be deployed in the cloud.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Learn how POWER9 with the Oracle 19c DB In Memory features can help you accelerates performance and reduce CPU use when performing simple and complex analytics queries. After an overview of the newest capabilities of Oracle Database In-Memory feature, we'll share our experiences testing DBIM with simple and complex queries on POWER9. We will share the speed ups achieved for a set of reporting queries run In-Memory compared to disk row format, as well as hints and tips for getting the best results with In-Memory.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Since 2016, Nationwide Insurance has leveraged Oracle Enterprise Manager's Fleet Maintenance capability to effectively and proactively patch our Oracle database environment to address critical vulnerabilities and maintain version currency.  Over three years, using EM capabilities, Nationwide has patched more than 7000 databases with a success rate exceeding 99%.  This session will talk about EM's Fleet Maintenance capabilities and impart some of the lessons we learned to achieve success.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

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).