A wise man once said: "Servers should be treated like cattle, not pets." - Bill Baker, Microsoft A not-so wise man once said: "Cattle?!?  We should treat them like Zombies! Everybody loves Zombies!"  - Dan Young, IU What if today, your database servers, the heart of your organization, stopped beating, could they simply become undead with a few…

Perl is a wonderful versatile programming language that can automate many of our daily manual task and make our job more efficient. It can also be used to build fabulous software tools and products. Many DBAs and developers would like to learn Perl, but do not know where to start. This session introduces the important…

The Oracle RDBMS is highly tuneable with many options for optimizing performance. However, the sheer quantity of tuning options can be overwhelming, and you can waste precious time unless you know which tuning activities are most likely to provide a return on your time investment.  In this presentation we’ll review ten of the fundamental Oracle…

Today, customers expect from their IT Infrastructure being more business enabler, less complex, more agile, more optimized, delivering solutions faster without compromising business continuity & performance. Through customer projects experiences , we will provide architecture solutions examples, building blocks design, combinations of Oracle and IBM Power Systems features, which will provide benefits in regards to…

Today, customers expect from their IT Infrastructure being more business enabler, less complex, more agile, more optimized, delivering solutions faster without compromising business continuity & performance. Through customer projects experiences , we will provide architecture solutions examples, building blocks design, combinations of Oracle and IBM Power Systems features, which will provide benefits in regards to…

This will cover the 7 habits of highly effective DBA's that have been working with Oracle for many years.  You'll see where they save time and spend time.  You'll also see many tips & tricks to make you better. I.   Overview II.  Tips 1-7 A. Have a Backup B. Tune your System C. Use a…

This will cover the 7 habits of highly effective DBA's that have been working with Oracle for many years.  You'll see where they save time and spend time.  You'll also see many tips & tricks to make you better. I.   Overview II.  Tips 1-7 A. Have a Backup B. Tune your System C. Use a…

This will cover the 7 habits of highly effective DBA's that have been working with Oracle for many years.  You'll see where they save time and spend time.  You'll also see many tips & tricks to make you better. I.   Overview II.  Tips 1-7 A. Have a Backup B. Tune your System C. Use a…

BICS is an exciting new offering from Oracle. Built on the solid foundation of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and the world-class Oracle Database, BICS allows business to quickly ramp up a BI environment without traditional on premise investments in time, resources and cost that can be prohibitive. BICS’ rapid low cost deployment enables a…

REST or Representational State Transfer is a design style that has become the most important technology for applications and services deploying on the world-wide-web today. Consequently, Oracle has also embraced RESTful services and has exposed a rich set of tools and APIs for managing and configuring the Oracle Public Cloud.  Operations such as creating and…