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You have been working as a DBA for years and are planning/starting to support an Exadata installation. There are several planned and unplanned maintenance task that you will face, involving a lot of details on each one. Don't wait to master them with practice, on this session we will share our experience of working with…

Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) is the DBAs go to tool to help address the need to backup, recovery, clone, and migrate Oracle databases.  Attend this session to learn about the latest features that were introduced in Database 12c, plus several common RMAN recipes for the ultimate way to protect your data. Learn how to setup…

Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) is the DBAs go to tool to help address the need to backup, recovery, clone, and migrate Oracle databases.  Attend this session to learn about the latest features that were introduced in Database 12c, plus several common RMAN recipes for the ultimate way to protect your data. Learn how to setup…

Learn how the Oracle cloud can be used to backup and recover databases using RMAN, the defacto standard for Oracle backups. Learn how this solves the backup problem for both smaller IT organizations and larger Enterprises that use systems (like the ODA) that are deployed to remote locations. In this Hands on Lab, you will…

The purpose of this presentation is Inform the audience how to be a proactive DBA and keep their databases running by simply using Oracle's new tool. This tool and my presentation will help database administrators provide to their customers a way to reduce the cost of ownership by reducing the time to trouble shoot anomalies. It will also help administrators…

The purpose of this presentation is Inform the audience how to be a proactive DBA and keep their databases running by simply using Oracle's new tool. This tool and my presentation will help database administrators provide to their customers a way to reduce the cost of ownership by reducing the time to trouble shoot anomalies. It will also help administrators…

The purpose of this presentation is Inform the audience how to be a proactive DBA and keep their databases running by simply using Oracle's new tool. This tool and my presentation will help database administrators provide to their customers a way to reduce the cost of ownership by reducing the time to trouble shoot anomalies. It will also help administrators…

  Performance issues are the bane of our existence.  We are quick to blame the issue on the database (if we are application developers) and even quicker the blame the developers (if we are DBAs). If all else fails, we can blame the network. This presentation outlines a coherent methodology to identify performance issues, describes…

Big Data integration is an excellent feature in the Oracle Data Integration product suite (Oracle Data Integrator, GoldenGate, & Enterprise Data Quality). But not all analytics require big data technologies, such as labor cost, revenue, or expense reporting. Ralph Kimball, an original architect of the dimensional model in data warehousing, spent much of his career…