In today's highly competitive markets, businesses cannot tolerate any system downtime, not to mention ill performing applications. Conventional home-grown monitoring tools for day-to-day administrative tasks are simply unreliable. While sophisticated applications have advanced business models dramatically, it has also brought a complexity level to many environments that is as challenging as any faced by modern…

If you have been working with Oracle UCM and Site Studio, Oracle’s acquisition of FatWire has introduced some uncertainty. Are you unsure what “web experience management” means for your company? What is the proper path for my existing Site Studio sites? How can I best utilize WebCenter Sites in my existing Oracle environment? Come to…

An overview of High Availability Solutions with MySQL with case studies of customer deployments in the field

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…

This is a two-part session that will take place on Monday and Tuesday. Database shrinking can be overwhelming. Don’t let this feature intimidate you; let it become a powerful friend! This session describes why shrinking is needed and just how to go about using it. Being forewarned and forearmed will decrease the learning curve and…

This is a two-part session that will take place on Monday and Tuesday. Database shrinking can be overwhelming. Don’t let this feature intimidate you; let it become a powerful friend! This session describes why shrinking is needed and just how to go about using it. Being forewarned and forearmed will decrease the learning curve and…

This presentation is a high-level introduction to Oracle RAC. Many RAC beginner presentations are given by seasoned RAC experts and contain an overwhelming suite of technical discussions, covering a way too much information for the level of expertise of most attendees. This presentation is given by a beginner with the RACand will introduce attendees to…

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…

Transportable Tablespaces (TTS) are one of the most versatile features in Oracle Database. Leaving the datafiles in place with TTS are one of the fastest methods of upgrading without an additional option license cost. Several case studies will be covered: Archiving partitions, storage migrations, TSPITR and sharing a read-only tablespace between databases.

Transportable Tablespaces (TTS) are one of the most versatile features in Oracle Database. Leaving the datafiles in place with TTS are one of the fastest methods of upgrading without an additional option license cost. Several case studies will be covered: Archiving partitions, storage migrations, TSPITR and sharing a read-only tablespace between databases.