Performing a seamless migration to move Oracle Database to new hardware platforms and new operating systems can be challenging. This session shares Dell’s experience in a recent Oracle Database migration project to move Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) databases to new storage systems, new servers, and new operating systems running on the database servers. It…

By introducing the In-Memory column store, Oracle 12c In-Memory Database option is designed to significantly improve query performance for OLAP applications such as Business analytics applications.  Recently released Oracle In-Memory advisor  provides advises on In-Memory  store configuration  and which tables or segments should be loaded into the In-Memory  store and the estimated performance improvements. This…

The session will Introduce key new features that will be available with "Oracle Real Application Clusters 12c Release 2" Introduce best practices for deployment, Management, Availability and Performance tuning Cover internals of the key features so DBA's can understand how the feature will help with their day-to-day activities Presenter: Anil Nair, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation

Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) was often described as the “killer feature” of Oracle 11gR2 and it has been enhanced in Oracle 12c. EBR was developed to drastically reduce downtime required when updating Oracle E-Business Suite’s. Using EBR your organization can provide an “Online Application Upgrade” eliminating or drastically-reducing outages due to PL/SQL software upgrades and even changes…

Planning your migration from Oracle RDBMS 11g to Oracle RDBMS 12c?  Considering the use of container databases?  From a Capacity Planning and Performance perspective, how can we fit our 11g workloads into a rightsized 12c environment? Should we consolidate our RAC/Grid infrastructure into SMP?  Do we consider hyperconverged infrastructure? Here's a methodology to determine the…

Exadata has been come the engineered system of choice when talking about high performance and databases.  Although Exadata is a great system, Oracle recommends that health checks be performed on an Exadata at least once a month to ensure performance and reliability of the system.  With this expectation Oracle provides a utility called Exachk.  ExaChk…

The most widely anticipated feature of Oracle Database 12c is now available, and you may be wondering just how you can move your current databases to pluggable databases in a multitenant architecture. Whether you are just starting to explore the world of pluggable databases or are planning a production upgrade in the near future to…

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c provides a complete infrastructure management solution for databases, applications and hardware. Being such a key component in the enterprise naturally leads to concerns about redundancy and high availability. If something does go wrong within the configuration, it should be able to be recovered in the shortest possible time, thus…

In July of 2013, Oracle released the 12c version of its flagship database. While much of the initial focus was on the new structural capabilities (i.e multi-tenancy), Oracle has also provided many new features available for developers. This presentation will outline some of the new 12c features of interest specifically to developers. Whitepaper PowerPoint

Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) has evolved since being released in version 8i. With the newest version of Oracle 12c , RMAN has great new features that will allow you to reduce your down time in case of a disaster. In this session you will learn about the new features that were introduced in Oracle…