Understanding the ‘TRUE’ High Availability (HA) requirements for the systems is the most critical component in providing and configuring the desired HA for the application. Business and IT must have a common understanding regarding the cost associated with the expected HA. The associated cost and the ‘TRUE’ HA requirements primarily drive the solution architecture and…

Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. With decades of combined experience in delivering WebCenter Content projects, we have consolidated and categorized approaches that work, and approaches that don’t. We’d like to share this list with you with the hope that it will help you avoid making…

Oracle Real Application Testing is a very useful tool introduced in Oracle Database 11g and further enhanced in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. This presentation discusses how Oracle Real Application Testing works by going under the covers and derives a set of best practices based on real life experience with this tool

Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. With decades of combined experience in delivering WebCenter Content projects, we have consolidated and categorized approaches that work, and approaches that don’t. We’d like to share this list with you with the hope that it will help you avoid making…

Oracle Database security checklists and standards are focused on one database, not 1,000 databases. The significant challenge is when you have 100, 500, 1,000, or even 10,000 Oracle Databases in your organization to protect. In order to protect and securely maintain a thousand Oracle Databases requires an enterprise database security framework and database security program.…

See how the Oracle Public Cloud's Java Cloud Service can dramatically simplify the creation and management of customizations for Applications products such as Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle CRM On-Demand, and Oracle E-Business Suite. In this session we will describe how you can use the Java Cloud Service to provision cloud based Applications customizations in minutes…

The design of streams replication involves a pipeline of components that are responsible for capturing, propagating, and applying logical change records (LCRs) from a source database to a destination database. Because of the interaction between streams and the database, there are a number of areas that can suffer performance problems thus obstructing real-time data updates.…

The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. MITRE manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), partnering with government sponsors to support their critical operational missions. MITRE’s Records Management department needed to deploy a system to help manage physical content and electronic records not just for retention, but…

This is a continuation of “Oracle11.1 to 11.2 – In giant steps” session. The previous session talked about what you need to think about before starting the migration. This session continues the process to discuss the specific steps needed to upgrade from Oracle11.1 to Oracle11gR2.

Previous migrations of Oracle Enterprise Manager left a DBA with no fallback position and extensive outage periods for the actual upgrade. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c has been completely rewritten that includes a comprehensive step-by-step method of safely upgrading including a pre-defined fallback method to revert to. Best practices on using the new Pre-Upgrade Console to…