Many people who are charged with running MySQL are not DBA's, rather they aredevelopers, system administrators, network administrators, etc. Typically thesepeople put on a DBA hat only when there is a problem to solve or to dealdirectly with. I call these people the 5 minute DBA's, dealing with databasesissues for only a very short time…

Oracle upgrade from 9i to 11g is not trivial for a lot of applications. Some upgrades have encountered big problems and caused huge bussiness losses. RAT provided great tool to record the activities from older version of databases and play back on the newer version of Oracle databases to see exactly what would happen after…

Oracle upgrade from 9i to 11g is not trivial for a lot of applications. Some upgrades have encountered big problems and caused huge bussiness losses. RAT provided great tool to record the activities from older version of databases and play back on the newer version of Oracle databases to see exactly what would happen after…

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11gRelease 2 has laid the ground for Oracle's grid infrastructure, preparing theOracle RAC stack to be the foundation for private clouds. The 11.2.0.2 patchset completes this development, providing an even more dynamic cloud. OracleRAC 11.2.0.2 includes the new Oracle Cluster File System, Cloud Edition, anenriched version of the ASM-based cluster…

What's the right solution for your content management needs - Oracle Content Management 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…

A brief overview of how Oracle on Windows is different than Oracle on Unix/Linux, the pitfalls of running on 32bit Windows, tips and tricks for Oracle installs and patches, and some handy command line commands and scripts.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 provides the foundation to successfully deliver more quality information while reducing risks and increasing DBA productivity. This session provides detailed technical steps to upgrade EBS 11i database from 10g R2 to 11g R2. This session will also provide Tips and Techniques for DBA's to achieve this goal with less pain

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 provides the foundation to successfully deliver more quality information while reducing risks and increasing DBA productivity. This session provides detailed technical steps to upgrade EBS 11i database from 10g R2 to 11g R2. This session will also provide Tips and Techniques for DBA's to achieve this goal with less pain

This will be a panel discussion describing early experiences installing and running the Oracle Database 11gR2 on Linux on System z. It will cover best practices on setting up the Linux and z/VM environment for the 11gR2 Database and lessons learned from installation experiences by the panel members.

This will be a panel discussion describing early experiences installing and running the Oracle Database 11gR2 on Linux on System z. It will cover best practices on setting up the Linux and z/VM environment for the 11gR2 Database and lessons learned from installation experiences by the panel members.