Different databases behave differently. To come up with a set threshold to monitor the load of a database is a challenge. Baseline thresholds are good for systems that have repeatable patterns, but will not hold good for systems whose behaviour changes over time and has bursts of load. The approach we use at Google is…

This presentation will teach you the basics of Exadata from a beginner's perspective, with experiences and examples that are intermediate level.  It will go over the advantages of using this hardware and how the hardware components provide the speed that you'll realize implementing it.  Consolidation is the number 1 way that companies are saving money…

Oracle Redaction and Transparent Data Encryption are the most advanced features available in Oracle12c to guarantee optimal database security and data protection, by utilizing a combination of encryption standards and data retrieval methods and policies beyond SQL execution, which enable specialized administrators to fully condition access to private information, using encryption, row-level with either role-driven or…

In this session, learn how to harvest your OEM metric values for later use outside of Enterprise Manager.  We will go into detail about our approach, required setup, and how we use the harvested information.   The primary use cases that will be covered are capacity planning and utilizing a custom built “Desired Metric Settings Repository”…

Do you ever wonder when and when not to use parallelism and how to control it? Do you want to understand how DBAs and Developers can best work together to optimally utilize parallelism? Parallelism in an Oracle database can increase performance of reporting queries and data loads many times over. However, if not controlled, it…

Oracle Audit Vault consolidates audit data from Oracle databases, operating systems and directories into a centralized secure repository.  Audit Vault has built in compliance reports to improve a DBAs life and configurable alerting to enhance security across a large environment. This session will cover the initial deployment of Audit Vault as an Administrator and the…

Take a plunge into the technical details of Oracle Exadata. This session describes what has been done to enhance Oracle Exadata and its integrated database architecture, and how to take maximum advantage of some of the new capabilities. This session examines in detail Oracle Exadata hardware and software architecture, database extensions for Oracle Exadata, I/O…

Go behind the scenes of Enterprise Manager, and find out the monitoring data Enterprise Manager is capturing about the tasks it's performing. Use that operational data, to determine the load on the system, and calculate the available processing head-room. And using those results to scale-up or scale-out Enterprise Manager to meet the changing administration needs.

One the great strengths of the WebLogic Server deployment architecture for WebCenter Content (WCC) is the underlying support of Enterprise Manager (EM)as a powerful optimization and troubleshooting tool.  Yet many WCC admins are unaware of the capabilities and configurations available within EM and how they can use them to improve the performance and stability of…

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c security framework can be quite overwhelming for the EM administrator.  It's often hard to understand how the components interact and how to best leverage them for your organization.  Learn how to take advantage of Enterprise Manager roles, groups and named credentials to properly grant permissions and privileges to users.  Utilizing EM…