Originally introduced for non database data,  Oracle ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) added the support  Oracle database files in Oracle 12c.  Today IT organizations may leverage Oracle ACFS to establish pooling of storage across database, middleware and applications in their private Cloud. Come to this session to explore the Oracle ACFS and how it is…

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The session covers lessons learned, tips/tricks, recommendations, best practices, gotchas and a whole lot more on how to effectively use Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control for quick, easy & intuitive performance tuning of your Oracle Database Cloud. Come learn from the experts on how to effectively employ/deploy Oracle Enterprise Manager for tuning, trouble-shooting &…

The Oracle High Availability Architecture with Oracle 12c RAC as the main pillar emerged as the foundation for the Application Resiliency.  Business continuity, high availability, scalability, flexibility and the agility combined with easy management are the key benefits of the Oracle 12c RAC.  When combined with the HA components like Flashback features, Flex ASM, Transaction…

Different databases behave differently. To come up with a set threshold to monitor the load of a database is a challenge. Baseline thresholds are good for systems that have repeatable patterns, but will not hold good for systems whose behaviour changes over time and has bursts of load. The approach we use at Google is…

This presentation will teach you the basics of Exadata from a beginner's perspective, with experiences and examples that are intermediate level.  It will go over the advantages of using this hardware and how the hardware components provide the speed that you'll realize implementing it.  Consolidation is the number 1 way that companies are saving money…

Oracle Redaction and Transparent Data Encryption are the most advanced features available in Oracle12c to guarantee optimal database security and data protection, by utilizing a combination of encryption standards and data retrieval methods and policies beyond SQL execution, which enable specialized administrators to fully condition access to private information, using encryption, row-level with either role-driven or…

In this session, learn how to harvest your OEM metric values for later use outside of Enterprise Manager.  We will go into detail about our approach, required setup, and how we use the harvested information.   The primary use cases that will be covered are capacity planning and utilizing a custom built “Desired Metric Settings Repository”…

Do you ever wonder when and when not to use parallelism and how to control it? Do you want to understand how DBAs and Developers can best work together to optimally utilize parallelism? Parallelism in an Oracle database can increase performance of reporting queries and data loads many times over. However, if not controlled, it…

Oracle Audit Vault consolidates audit data from Oracle databases, operating systems and directories into a centralized secure repository.  Audit Vault has built in compliance reports to improve a DBAs life and configurable alerting to enhance security across a large environment. This session will cover the initial deployment of Audit Vault as an Administrator and the…