This session will provide an update on IBM System z, and the Oracle solutions for System z and Linux on System z. Also included will be an update on the zSeries Oracle SIG, including planned activities, website, and leaders. This session is the first session of the System z Oracle track, with sessions through the…

Even the best-planned database upgrades can leave nagging questions: what happens if my upgraded system performs unexpectedly? Is there a way I can go back to the previous version without downtime and data loss? Oracle GoldenGate allows DBAs to give affirmative answers to these questions. Drawing on upgrade experiences ranging from mid-sized databases to a…

More and more companies are utilizing virtualization in their environments to lower costs and effectively utilize resources. Placing Oracle databases in virtualized environments is not just for development and testing anymore. The rise of virtualization is introducing new performance challenges to the Oracle DBA that are not well documented at this time and these issues…

This is a two-part session that will take place on Monday and Tuesday. Oracle 11g databases can scale to handle tremendous volumes of data, but some effort is involved to avoid the dastardly villians that would sabotage your success. This presentation will help DBAs avoid the villainous techniques and pitfalls in code and schema designs,…

Learn all about the Oracle Database Cloud Service. This session will demonstrate how to get started and how easy it is to start deploying and developing applications.

In this session, the attendees will learn how they can use Oracle database features to meet the security and compliance requirements of their organization. The current regulatory environment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPPA, the UK Data Protection Act, and others requires better security at the database level. The session provides suggested architectures for common problems.…

This lecture will provide current knowledge, hints, tips and customer experiences to enable attendees to successfully deploy Oracle products on this platform.

Oracle GoldenGate has been widely used as a data replication and integration technology. At PayPal, Inc., there are many large scale Oracle GoldenGate systems implemented to support data replication/integration needs. This session will overview Oracle GoldenGate architecture and common use cases, new features offered by the latest GoldenGate v11 release, best practice in managing/scaling the…

Oracle on VMware??? Most of our customers have virtualized their application tier, but now are either virtualizing databases or planning to do so soon. Some companies have attempted to virtualize databases on VMware already but went back to physical hardware because of performance issues. There are many reasons this may have happened, but quite often…

Unexpected execution plans due to system changes such as optimizer version and statistics, schema/metadata definitions, and system settings can have disastrous effects on performance. Learn how 11g SQL Plan Management (SPM) provides controlled plan evolution to ensure stability and consistent SQL performance.