Learn all about the Oracle Database Cloud Service. This session will demonstrate how to get started and how easy it is to start deploying and developing applications.

In this session, the attendees will learn how they can use Oracle database features to meet the security and compliance requirements of their organization. The current regulatory environment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPPA, the UK Data Protection Act, and others requires better security at the database level. The session provides suggested architectures for common problems.…

This lecture will provide current knowledge, hints, tips and customer experiences to enable attendees to successfully deploy Oracle products on this platform.

Oracle GoldenGate has been widely used as a data replication and integration technology. At PayPal, Inc., there are many large scale Oracle GoldenGate systems implemented to support data replication/integration needs. This session will overview Oracle GoldenGate architecture and common use cases, new features offered by the latest GoldenGate v11 release, best practice in managing/scaling the…

Oracle on VMware??? Most of our customers have virtualized their application tier, but now are either virtualizing databases or planning to do so soon. Some companies have attempted to virtualize databases on VMware already but went back to physical hardware because of performance issues. There are many reasons this may have happened, but quite often…

Unexpected execution plans due to system changes such as optimizer version and statistics, schema/metadata definitions, and system settings can have disastrous effects on performance. Learn how 11g SQL Plan Management (SPM) provides controlled plan evolution to ensure stability and consistent SQL performance.

Are you paying your top Oracle DBA’s to reset passwords and perform user management? Typical Oracle database shops have numerous databases for their different applications. Without a centralized user management solution, this forces the DBA’s to burn cycles on user management tasks to ensure users have the proper access. Implementing Enterprise User Security will rid…

A database cloud is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. These resources can include servers, storage, applications, and services, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort. Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) provides the required functionality to enable such a database cloud. You…

This session will describe user experiences with tuning the set up for an Oracle Database running on Linux on IBM System z. It will cover the options in z/VM, Linux, Storage, and init.ora that can improve the throughtput achieved.

This session will cover several recent experiences of setting up the the Linux on z environements for Oracle DB 11gR2 with the latest versions of the RedHat and SLES distributions to prepare for the Oracle installation.