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…

From day 1 everyone states the controlfile is important - and should be protected. Make sure you have more than one copy, why not three... So what is this controlfile? Did you know that it hosts a lot of valuable information about the database and plays an important role in backup and recovery? Whether you…

From day 1 everyone states the controlfile is important - and should be protected. Make sure you have more than one copy, why not three... So what is this controlfile? Did you know that it hosts a lot of valuable information about the database and plays an important role in backup and recovery? Whether you…

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…

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…

Learn how you can setup Data Guard in easy 1-2-3 steps.  Attendees will learn what is new in Oracle Data Guard 12.2.  In addition to demonstrating how simple it is to setup Data Guard, this session will disseminate fundamental Data Guard best practices and reference architectures that DBAs need to know to protect their Oracle…

Learn how you can setup Data Guard in easy 1-2-3 steps.  Attendees will learn what is new in Oracle Data Guard 12.2.  In addition to demonstrating how simple it is to setup Data Guard, this session will disseminate fundamental Data Guard best practices and reference architectures that DBAs need to know to protect their Oracle…

Oracle Database In-Memory introduces a new in-memory columnar format and a new set of SQL execution optimizations such as SIMD processing, column elimination, storage indexes, and in-memory aggregation, all of which are designed specifically for the new columnar format. This hands-on lab provides a step-by-step guide on how to get started with Oracle Database In-Memory…

Oracle Database In-Memory introduces a new in-memory columnar format and a new set of SQL execution optimizations such as SIMD processing, column elimination, storage indexes, and in-memory aggregation, all of which are designed specifically for the new columnar format. This hands-on lab provides a step-by-step guide on how to get started with Oracle Database In-Memory…

Big Data analytics furnishes actionable information to help make business decisions. E.g., "Which of our products got four stars rating on social media in the last quarter?” Producing actionable information requires both Big Data as well as Master Data i.e., products, customers, usually stored in Oracle database. This technical session describes Oracle Datasource for Apache…