From tracking customers in online stores to tweets and blog posts, unstructured data is rapidly growing and businesses are looking for ways to analyze it. In this presentation, I will explain why storing and processing unstructured data is a challenge best answered by specialized systems such as Hadoop, I will dive into how Hadoop works…

The drastic price drops in solid state storage have opened new avenues to maximize database performance. Even very large databases can put their entire active data sets on solid state storage, relegating rotating storage to archival roles. Exadata X3 demonstrates how terabytes of solid state storage can be obtained for the same cost as smaller…

The drastic price drops in solid state storage have opened new avenues to maximize database performance. Even very large databases can put their entire active data sets on solid state storage, relegating rotating storage to archival roles. Exadata X3 demonstrates how terabytes of solid state storage can be obtained for the same cost as smaller…

Oracle Database Standard Edition is sometimes the neglected smaller brother of Enterprise Edition. Most will focus on the new features available in the Enterprise Edition stack, but what about Standard Edition? People seem to forget that it is still the same core database. It can provide you with highly available solutions as well as help…

Oracle Database Standard Edition is sometimes the neglected smaller brother of Enterprise Edition. Most will focus on the new features available in the Enterprise Edition stack, but what about Standard Edition? People seem to forget that it is still the same core database. It can provide you with highly available solutions as well as help…

What is Disaster Recovery? Do you have an Oracle database environment with important information that needs to be available no matter what? An important question you should ask yourself is; if you lose your primary database environment for a day or even an hour due to a disaster (human error, natural or any other), what…

Arthur C. Clarke wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This has been proven true in many technologies, and it makes troubleshooting of that technology seem like art. But it is not art, it is process, and the intent of this presentation is to use a case study (i.e. resolving ORA-03136 "connection…

Arthur C. Clarke wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This has been proven true in many technologies, and it makes troubleshooting of that technology seem like art. But it is not art, it is process, and the intent of this presentation is to use a case study (i.e. resolving ORA-03136 "connection…

Oracle plans to launch the next generation of the Oracle database in 2013 and this will cause many customers to take a hard look at their underlying server/system architecture and ask a set of questions. Such as: Can my system handle the future growth of our business? What are the savings by consolidating databases and…

Oracle plans to launch the next generation of the Oracle database in 2013 and this will cause many customers to take a hard look at their underlying server/system architecture and ask a set of questions. Such as: Can my system handle the future growth of our business? What are the savings by consolidating databases and…