Attend this session to get the inside track on how Oracle Exadata is monitored and managed using Oracle Enterprise Manager. Learn from a real-world implementation on how to effectively instrument and monitor your engineered systems.

Best practices for planning and implementing solutions on Exalogic from the authors of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Handbook (Oracle Press/McGraw Hill, 2012).

WikiLeaks has dramatically changed how organizations deal with data security. Without getting into the politics, this session will discuss how to mitigate data breaches in your APEX applications. It will follow your data through its “chain of custody”, and provide insights on securing it at each step. It will cover not only things to do…

Exadata is an engineered system that has a variety of expansion options. Learn about the methodology that was used to determine the expansion approach and the lessons learned with expantion of an Exadata system with the Exadata Storage Expansion.

Oracle announced several appliances and engineered systems - Database Appliance, Exadata, Exalogic, T4 super cluster, Exalytics and Big Data Appliance. While these products provided much needed gap in many cases, there is a tremendous amount of confusion about the proper usecase of these machines. In this session attendees will learn the difference between these, the…

Have you ever experienced an unexpected rush of users on the system which almost ground it to a halt? Have you ever had to approach management with a request for more resources due to poor performance in tight budget times? This presentation will discuss how to potentially avoid these situations in advance though load testing.…

Real Application Testing (RAT) with Database Replay and SQL Performance Analyzer has given us the ability to be more proactive in ensuring that application, database, operating system, hardware, etc. changes and upgrades never negatively impact our database and system operations again. This presentation will review the features and use of real application testing with Test…

What's the right solution for your content management needs ? Oracle WebCenter Content or SharePoint or both. This presentation will try to provide an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these two competing but compatable content management solutions while presenting a business strategy to use both of them at the same time. See how…

IPM 11g is on a completely different architecture!! If you have been using IPM for some time, and now that it is time to upgrade have been told there isn't a clear path to make the upgrade, you need to attend this session. Learn from those that have done this before, and were successful. You…

This talk will provide tips for using SQL against an Oracle Database. It will discuss how to exploit a selection of lesser known features and also how to avoid traps and pitfalls. Examples of redundant and undocumented functions, such as OVERLAPS, REVERSE and the range of SYS_OP functions will be covered and some of the…