This is a two-part session that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. MySQL is now a proud part of the Oracle Database Family and is used by over 70% of IOUG members. But do you know about 'storage engines' or how MySQL Cluster differs from RAC. This is a session to introduce seasoned Oracle…

Session Highlights - Oracle CPU patches address security issues - Many compliance requirements mandate it but, Patch application downtime, risk, labor cost - So, many sites do not apply the CPU patch, or delay it - Can you do something so that either: these patches wouldn’t be necessary? or, not applying the patch will not…

By using a Datafile Driven Dynamic List you can dynamically force metadata inheritance on content items created from it and eliminate element definition clutter by storing queries in datafiles.

By using a Datafile Driven Dynamic List you can dynamically force metadata inheritance on content items created from it and eliminate element definition clutter by storing queries in datafiles.

With the great interest in ‘Big Data’ solutions, hear why the Oracle platform is perfect for ‘Big Data’ requirements with analytic and SQL capabilities to join ALL data types, including relational, Spatial, XML, text, semantics, multimedia and other unstructured data. Get an introduction into the features in Oracle Database for storing, managing and analyzing unstructured…

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

It is common for large enterprises to have several years of VMware experience, with hundreds to thousands of virtual machines in their data centers. It is also common for such organizations to experience some stall in the anticipation of virtualizing Tier-1 workloads. House of Brick Technologies has co-authored three case studies with VMware Corporation (vmware.com/oracle)…

Virtualization technology provides the solution to enable the server partition and consolidation for improving the resource utilization and archiving the great flexibility and high availability. Combining Oracle VM with Oracle RAC provides the Database Cloud ready architecture to consolidate the data center infrastructure. The new Oracle VM 3.0 release not only improved the scalability, but…

Oracle VM provides two major categories of virtual machines; HVM and Paravirtualized. The HVM or Hardware Virtualized Machine is able to take advantage of hardware acceleration features built into the x86 chipset to accelerate certain operations. The Paravirtualized machine is able to take advantage of more efficient device drivers, thus accelerating network and I/O operations.…

This is a two-part session that will take place on Monday and Tuesday. The database landscape is evolving as new, scalable data stores emerge. Key value stores, large tabular stores, and document-oriented databases offer a compelling alternative to the traditional relational database. By removing joins and loosening ACID constraints, this new class of non-relational or…