Amazon Aurora was created in response to customer demand for enterprise-grade, cost-effective relational database technology optimized for the cloud. The original MySQL-compatible edition was first announced in November 2014, and we've recently announced PostgreSQL compatibility as well. In this session, you will learn about the architecture of Amazon Aurora, how it's optimized for the cloud,…

Learn about latest ways to upgrade, migrate, and consolidate databases in Oracle Database 12c. This hands on lab includes; upgrading using the new command-line parallel upgrade script, plugging that database into container database, and migrating a database to a pluggable database using the full transportable export/import feature. #IOUGeniusDBReady

There are several Oracle Database security options that are available to secure the environment and provide data protection from unauthorized access. In creating a database environment that is available as a service, the security should be built in for deployment. The Database Cloud changes how the role of the DBA manages and implements security. This…

Nobody likes surprises when it comes to database upgrades and migrations. Because the upgrade or migration usually is not complicated by itself, the most important task is ensuring good performance afterward. This presentation discusses a straightforward, step-by-step approach to ensure not only plan stability but also proper testing; secret tweaks; and helpful tips and tricks…

Learn about latest ways to upgrade, migrate, and consolidate databases in Oracle Database 12c. This hands on lab includes; upgrading using the new command-line parallel upgrade script, plugging that database into container database, and migrating a database to a pluggable database using the full transportable export/import feature. #IOUGeniusDBReady

The ecosystem of the Oracle Real Applications Cluster (RAC) gives lots of space for creative solutions, optimized concepts and --- intelligent questions! The Grid Infrastructure framework is highly flexible, ASM opens many performant and safe options of mass storage administration and RAC is the measure for scalable database power in the market. But every single…

Attend this technical session to learn how Oracle Database Cloud Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud Service address the high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) requirements of business-critical databases. Learn simple ways to protect on-premises databases using Oracle Recovery Manager backups to the cloud or Oracle Active Data Guard replication to the cloud for real-time…

Oracle Advanced Analytics 12.2c delivers significant performance gains and features. OAA’s in-database algorithms can now build predictive models on billions of records in minutes, “score” millions of records in seconds and support real-time model deployment. New features include an unsupervised feature selection algorithm, partitioned models and Oracle Data Miner GUI enhancements.  R integration enables users…

Attend this technical session to learn how Oracle Database Cloud Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud Service address the high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) requirements of business-critical databases. Learn simple ways to protect on-premises databases using Oracle Recovery Manager backups to the cloud or Oracle Active Data Guard replication to the cloud for real-time…

In an environment where companies are merging and splitting, you may run into a scenario where you have to clone a database.  The size of the database could vary from couple of GBs to several TBs. The thought of getting it done overnight by creating a database, using export and import, and trying to think…