Why are books like "Advanced Oracle Utilities: The Definitive Reference" imperative for today’s DBA’s and senior developers? The answer: Oracle has become so robust and complex; where many new features are implemented not as SQL commands, but as either PL/SQL packages and/or stand alone utilities. Thus to best leverage all that Oracle has to offer,…

On a tight budget?Maybe you are not satisfied with Oracle supplied and/or Commercially available performance tools? Or does your work environment make it difficult or impossible to utilize tools such as Oracle EM? This presentation will highlight a number of free performance tools that can be used for Oracle performance work. The emphasis will be…

On a tight budget?Maybe you are not satisfied with Oracle supplied and/or Commercially available performance tools? Or does your work environment make it difficult or impossible to utilize tools such as Oracle EM? This presentation will highlight a number of free performance tools that can be used for Oracle performance work. The emphasis will be…

Part of a DBA's job is diagnosis of database issues and the detection of potential issues that adversely affect the performance Oracle database systems. Both databases and Operation Systems have become more complex.  Add in clustered systems such as RAC and it becomes quite difficult to manually find all the relevant bits of information required to…

Part of a DBA's job is diagnosis of database issues and the detection of potential issues that adversely affect the performance Oracle database systems. Both databases and Operation Systems have become more complex.  Add in clustered systems such as RAC and it becomes quite difficult to manually find all the relevant bits of information required to…

As experienced Oracle DBAs know, building a Data Warehouse is just the beginning of any successful application for performing complex analytics – you’ve also got to build the proper analytic views, fact tables, dimensions, and queries to make sense of the DW’s data. Oracle 12cR2 now provides a simple way to build out just the…

As experienced Oracle DBAs know, building a Data Warehouse is just the beginning of any successful application for performing complex analytics – you’ve also got to build the proper analytic views, fact tables, dimensions, and queries to make sense of the DW’s data. Oracle 12cR2 now provides a simple way to build out just the…

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…

Why are books like "Advanced Oracle Utilities: The Definitive Reference" imperative for today’s DBA’s and senior developers? The answer: Oracle has become so robust and complex; where many new features are implemented not as SQL commands, but as either PL/SQL packages and/or stand alone utilities. Thus to best leverage all that Oracle has to offer,…

Are your skilled DBAs spending time installing software and applying patches instead of growing your business? Come to this session to learn how PayPal moved from manual execution of homegrown scripts for Oracle Real Application Clusters installs and patching to leveraging the power of Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack. Oracle Real Application Clusters provisioning moved…