By introducing In-Memory column store, Oracle Database In-Memory (DBIM) significantly improves the performance for analytic queries as well as mixed workloads.  Come to this session to learn Oracle Database In Memory under the hood:  the dual format memory architecture and configuration, how the data is populated into In-Memory column store and  it helps query…

DW & BI databases are growing ever bigger while analytical users continue demanding fast performance. While Exadata may be a great solution, not everyone can afford such a capital investment. Oracle ACE Bert Scalzo will highlight simple yet effective methods to utilize flash based storage technology to significantly improve performance with the least cost, effort…

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…

Cloud solutions continue to expand into the mainstream with obvious material value for businesses that have historical focused on on-premise solutions. With all major concerns for security in the cloud addressed by bank grade encryption, the question is now, how much of the on-premise software can be migrated to the cloud and how can it…

We’ll discuss and demonstrate our journey from on premise to the Cloud.  Learn how we simplified the migration of our on premise implementation to Oracle Cloud solutions, using proven software-led services and automation technology.  We’re enabling our organization to capitalize on cloud elasticity, scalability and security; while retaining our organization’s uniqueness with our own differentiating…

The benefits of knowing your data before embarking on a BI or big data project are endless. Sure you can buy a tool to help with this. Or you could use R, an open source tool. This session will dig into methods for using R to connect to your data source to see visual and…

There is a strong perception among ORACLE DBAs that Hadoop is a "thing" for developers. One can't use it effectively, unless he or she is is a decent Java programmer, able to write sophisticated MapReduce jobs. Nothing can be further from the truth! Hadoop is all about managing data, so, of course, it still needs…

Cloud-based relational databases provide advanced features and architectures that enable high availability, backup and restore, and many other features for Oracle Database workloads. In this session learn best practices for using the features of a cloud-based RDS in a variety of single- and multiinstance topologies, and backup/restore using snapshots. This session teaches you to take…

Cloud-based relational databases provide advanced features and architectures that enable high availability, backup and restore, and many other features for Oracle Database workloads. In this session learn best practices for using the features of a cloud-based RDS in a variety of single- and multiinstance topologies, and backup/restore using snapshots. This session teaches you to take…

Cloud computing is no longer a buzz word, enterprises are investing in both public and private cloud to enable an efficient and cost effective way to provision databases and other services, in fact they already have some apps/databases in cloud. But before we move to cloud (public or private), we need to know about existing…