Even the best-planned database upgrades can leave nagging questions: what happens if my upgraded system performs unexpectedly? Is there a way I can go back to the previous version without downtime and data loss? Oracle GoldenGate allows DBAs to give affirmative answers to these questions. Drawing on upgrade experiences ranging from mid-sized databases to a…

More and more companies are utilizing virtualization in their environments to lower costs and effectively utilize resources. Placing Oracle databases in virtualized environments is not just for development and testing anymore. The rise of virtualization is introducing new performance challenges to the Oracle DBA that are not well documented at this time and these issues…

This is a two-part session that will take place on Monday and Tuesday. Oracle 11g databases can scale to handle tremendous volumes of data, but some effort is involved to avoid the dastardly villians that would sabotage your success. This presentation will help DBAs avoid the villainous techniques and pitfalls in code and schema designs,…

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.…

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.