Amazon Web Services Cloud offers you the ability to run your Oracle databases in a hosted, IaaS environment. A Running the Oracle Database on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is very similar to running Oracle at your data center. To a DBA or developer, there are no differences. However, there are a number of AWS platform…

Amazon Web Services Cloud offers you the ability to run your Oracle databases in a hosted, IaaS environment. A Running the Oracle Database on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is very similar to running Oracle at your data center. To a DBA or developer, there are no differences. However, there are a number of AWS platform…

SQL isn't just for databases anymore. Hadoop is the platform for Big Data and Cloudera Impala brings interactive SQL access to that data. This session will go through a brief overview of the Hadoop environment and focus on the motive, design goals, functionality, and architecture of Impala. The attendee will leave with an understanding of…

Just few years ago, it was completely acceptable to run a nightly process that took eight hours or more to load data into a data warehouse. Business executives were satisfied with reports and dashboards showing yesterday's data. In the past year, every single CIO I worked with had the same requirement—business intelligence updated in near…

Just few years ago, it was completely acceptable to run a nightly process that took eight hours or more to load data into a data warehouse. Business executives were satisfied with reports and dashboards showing yesterday's data. In the past year, every single CIO I worked with had the same requirement—business intelligence updated in near…

Oracle DBAs often unknowingly include emotion and folklore into their performance analysis. Unless you have a quantitative approach, your analysis will always be subjective. In this session you will learn how to set up and perform a time-based analysis. We will cover where to get performance data, how to construct your diagnosis framework and then…

Oracle has the world's most advanced database wait time instrumentation. However, Oracle does not instrument CPU consumption. This presents the Oracle DBA with a tuning handicap because CPU consumption can be a significant component of response time. The unintentional result can be solutions with a wait time bias. In this session you will learn how…

Oracle ADF Mobile is the strategic standards based mobile development platform from Oracle. Oracle Java Cloud service offers a complete solution for building and deploying enterprise grade applications in the cloud utilising the Java EE standard. This session demonstrates how the Oracle Java Cloud service can act as an effective backend for Oracle ADF Mobile…

Original Broadcast: 3.18.2014 Indexes are intended to provide faster access to rows when querying data than would a full scan of the entire table.  In a perfect world, we'd have indexes defined to precisely match our query predicates.  But, we don't live in a perfect world and don't typically have an option to create indexes…

Original Broadcast: 3.18.2014 Indexes are intended to provide faster access to rows when querying data than would a full scan of the entire table.  In a perfect world, we'd have indexes defined to precisely match our query predicates.  But, we don't live in a perfect world and don't typically have an option to create indexes…