This session will provide a real world review of a Big Data implementation for a national retailer. The session will discuss the choices which needed to be made as this retailer embarked on their Big Data project. We will review the different Big Data frameworks and will look at tools which were used within the…

This session will provide a real world review of a Big Data implementation for a national retailer. The session will discuss the choices which needed to be made as this retailer embarked on their Big Data project. We will review the different Big Data frameworks and will look at tools which were used within the…

This session will provide a real world review of a Big Data implementation for a national retailer. The session will discuss the choices which needed to be made as this retailer embarked on their Big Data project. We will review the different Big Data frameworks and will look at tools which were used within the…

This session reviews what the RAC Attack initiative is, and prepares attendees to install Oracle RAC 12c on a laptop for hands-on training purposes. At the end of this session you will be able set up a RAC sand box environment in no time using all Oracle tools: VirtualBox, Enterprise Linux and Database 12c. PowerPoint

RAC 11gR2 allows Database Administrators to push around users, patch like magic, and so much more, but I find DBAs are intimidated by it. This will present 5 tips to help demystify RAC by learning from mistakes before you make them, how services are beautiful, and why RAC has empowered me to be a great…

Original Broadcast: 2.6.14 In this educational session, Dell Software’s Oracle® replication expert, Sujith Kumar, illustrates how you can attain the five sigma’s of high availability using active-active replication in a critical database environment. Sujith will discuss replication techniques that can be easily incorporated into any database environment to prevent or eliminate downtime. You’ll learn simple…

Original Broadcast: 2.6.14 In this educational session, Dell Software’s Oracle® replication expert, Sujith Kumar, illustrates how you can attain the five sigma’s of high availability using active-active replication in a critical database environment. Sujith will discuss replication techniques that can be easily incorporated into any database environment to prevent or eliminate downtime. You’ll learn simple…

Original Broadcast: 2.6.14 In this educational session, Dell Software’s Oracle® replication expert, Sujith Kumar, illustrates how you can attain the five sigma’s of high availability using active-active replication in a critical database environment. Sujith will discuss replication techniques that can be easily incorporated into any database environment to prevent or eliminate downtime. You’ll learn simple…

It is impossible to think of PL/SQL without also thinking about SQL operations because the main purpose of PL/SQL is to provide the fastest and most efficient way of extending the relational database environment into the realm of procedural logic. The most important thing to remember is that SQL and PL/SQL are completely separate languages,…

The first PL/SQL code elements to review when deciding how to properly use SQL inside of PL/SQL are cursors. The battle between proponents of implicit vs. explicit cursors is as old as Oracle databases. Sadly, online fighters often miss the key feature of database cursors, namely that they are nothing more than pointers to SQL…