Successfully deploying and optimizing an Oracle Database environment can be a daunting task. The two objectives of this session are to focus on the key ingredients for a successful Oracle Database 12c installation and to provide a methodology to diagnose and remove performance bottlenecks by taking a closer look at the different Red Hat Enterprise…

Successfully deploying and optimizing an Oracle Database environment can be a daunting task. The two objectives of this session are to focus on the key ingredients for a successful Oracle Database 12c installation and to provide a methodology to diagnose and remove performance bottlenecks by taking a closer look at the different Red Hat Enterprise…

Many database administrators are enslaved by their consoles, completely dependent on GUI-based database management tools not only for modifications for all diagnostics.  This presentation is about breaking away from that trap and getting into the Linux/UNIX shell and finding out what is really going on within the operating-system surrounding the database. This presentation will discuss…

Many database administrators are enslaved by their consoles, completely dependent on GUI-based database management tools not only for modifications for all diagnostics.  This presentation is about breaking away from that trap and getting into the Linux/UNIX shell and finding out what is really going on within the operating-system surrounding the database. This presentation will discuss…

Many database administrators are enslaved by their consoles, completely dependent on GUI-based database management tools not only for modifications for all diagnostics.  This presentation is about breaking away from that trap and getting into the Linux/UNIX shell and finding out what is really going on within the operating-system surrounding the database. This presentation will discuss…

Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) is Oracle’s next-generation suite of integrated monitoring, management, and analytics cloud services. OMC is built on a scalable big data platform that provides real-time analysis and deep technical and business insights from a variety of operational data sources.  OMC has been designed to manage heterogeneous environments for a wide variety of…

Why, oh why is that unix sysadmin so surly?  Why does he look like that?  Did he bathe today?Twenty years of experience as a unix sysadmin who isn’t a troll and who isn’t a hack and who holds a few college degrees and certifications prompted me to ask these questions for all of us.  Why…

Why, oh why is that unix sysadmin so surly?  Why does he look like that?  Did he bathe today?Twenty years of experience as a unix sysadmin who isn’t a troll and who isn’t a hack and who holds a few college degrees and certifications prompted me to ask these questions for all of us.  Why…

Picking out, validating and improving slow or resource-eating SQL statements is part of any responsible DBA's work who takes his/her job serious. Identification alone can be tough, but it will be even harder to improve something you have no chance to understand the purpose of. This way, you will never be in the position to…

Why is PowerShell a DBA’s best friend?  It’s a lightweight, simple and powerful tool to manage database operations.  As DBAs we are tasked with managing many different types of database platforms.  It’s a database and you are a DBA, right?  It all looks the same, right?  PowerShell gives you the ability to run scripts against…