Eventually, every organization has to solve the problem of document exchange, especially in such tightly regulated areas as health care and government services. Many official forms must be filled out and processed exactly as mandated, preserving standards pixel by pixel. Another big issue is reporting, because end-users want very flexible customized reports without any performance…

  There are different schools of thought about the role of databases in IT. The biggest question is whether to put some (if any) business logic into database-stored code. Answers vary from “thick database approach” (put everything) to “database independence” (put nothing). In reality, the majority of existing solutions are somewhere in between.   This…

  There are different schools of thought about the role of databases in IT. The biggest question is whether to put some (if any) business logic into database-stored code. Answers vary from “thick database approach” (put everything) to “database independence” (put nothing). In reality, the majority of existing solutions are somewhere in between.   This…

  There are different schools of thought about the role of databases in IT. The biggest question is whether to put some (if any) business logic into database-stored code. Answers vary from “thick database approach” (put everything) to “database independence” (put nothing). In reality, the majority of existing solutions are somewhere in between.   This…

Developers and DBAs frequently, yet inappropriately, have adversarial relationships.  This presentation seeks to help communication between the two groups and, more imporantly, show how the focus and skills of each can help the other produce and support a better product.

Developers and DBAs frequently, yet inappropriately, have adversarial relationships.  This presentation seeks to help communication between the two groups and, more imporantly, show how the focus and skills of each can help the other produce and support a better product.

DevOps is the collaboration between application development and IT operations. Where formerly each was walled off from the other into silos that only communicated through change requests, today's demands on IT require that everyone operate in close cooperation, and that all tasks from provisioning to coding to testing to transition into production be automated, and…

  SQL*Plus has been the goto tool for Oracle DBAs (and even some developers) for a long time now.  And while there really is nothing wrong with SQL*Plus it just hasn’t been updated with features that we have come to expect from a command line tool.  Well…the Oracle SQL Developer team has been busy…yes, the…

The session will be focusing on security in the Oracle Public Cloud for the Oracle Database Cloud Service. It is well understood that when moving to cloud consolidation,  database security is of the utmost importance. This session will be focusing on what Oracle has to offer in the way of meeting regulatory compliance, securing data…

The session will be focusing on security in the Oracle Public Cloud for the Oracle Database Cloud Service. It is well understood that when moving to cloud consolidation,  database security is of the utmost importance. This session will be focusing on what Oracle has to offer in the way of meeting regulatory compliance, securing data…