Learn what's new from Oracle Database development, including a look at the latest features in Oracle Database 20c and what's coming next. Presented by William Hardie, Vice President Oracle Database Product Management Part of Innovation Week: April 20 - 23, 2020

Application deployments are often delayed when related database changes are required because they have traditionally followed manual processes that often result in defects which can lead to application downtime. What if you could accelerate your DevOps pipeline by converging database CI/CD with application changes, automate performance testing, monitor the performance impact of changes and replicate…

  In this session get a first look at Oracle Cloud’s new free tier, including new always free services such as Oracle Autonomous Database with Oracle Application Express. Learn what always free services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Autonomous Database are available now. Get details on service shapes, specifications, and regional availability. See live examples…

  In this session get a first look at Oracle Cloud’s new free tier, including new always free services such as Oracle Autonomous Database with Oracle Application Express. Learn what always free services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Autonomous Database are available now. Get details on service shapes, specifications, and regional availability. See live examples…

  Oracle Database 19c has hundreds of powerful features that help secure your data, and new capabilities are added with every release. In this session join Oracle product managers to discover 10 security features you may not be aware of. These features can help you streamline user administration, reduce your attack surface, deploy more-secure applications,…

Since 2016, Nationwide has leveraged Oracle Enterprise Manager's Fleet Maintenance feature to effectively and proactively patch its Oracle Database environment to address critical vulnerabilities and maintain version currency. In this session learn how Nationwide used Oracle Enterprise Manager's Fleet Maintenance feature to patch more than 7,000 databases over a three-year period, with a success rate…

Powerful Machine Learning (ML) is upon us. As Oracle DBAs, it is now our turn to leverage ML, enabling us to do things never before possible. But it's not that simple. So, in this presentation I'm going to introduce you to the world of ML from a DBA perspective. This includes understanding what ML is,…

A number of polls taken during various PL/SQL-related presentations paint a very strange picture: one of the most-critical FREE server-side performance-tuning tools is almost totally unknown! If you ask basic questions such as, “How much time is spent on routine A?” or “How often is function B called?” most developers would start to hand-code their…

Imagine being able to prove a performance problem is not a database issue. There are few ways to infer the problem resides elsewhere, but it's difficult for people to believe you. However, by creatively using ASH data and the idle wait event "SQL*Net message from client" we can do this. In this presentation, I will…