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…

SQL is arguably the world's most popular programming language today, and SQL database servers and systems are used in the majority of mission-critical business applications. However, many applications need capabilities such as transactions, concurrency, and high performance usually associated with database servers, without the query flexibility or overhead of SQL. Oracle Berkeley Database transactional key-value…

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

Recently released Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control provides a complete, out-of-the-box integrated solution for total private cloud management. This session will have a step-by-step walk-through for cloud and self-service administrators who are setting up a private cloud based on Oracle VM 3.0 provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).…

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.…

Recently released Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control provides a complete, out-of-the-box integrated solution for total private cloud management. This session will have a step-by-step walk-through for cloud and self-service administrators who are setting up a private cloud based on Oracle VM 3.0 provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).…

Oracle VM Server for x86 is Oracle’s virtualization product for the commodity hardware platform. This product is the only virtualization product supported by Oracle for database virtualization. Edward Whalen is the author of the newly published book “Oracle VM Implementation and Administration” from Oracle Press. In this session he will cover an introduction to the…

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)…

What does it take to make the database secure, to comply with regulations and mandates like SOX and PCI? You may be amazed to know that by taking some simple steps you can perform in a single day, you can attain 60% of the requirements and make your database a secure place, as you will…

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…