Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c is one of the most versatile manageability tool in the market helping enterprises to monitor and enabling Application-to-Disk management  through a single pane of glass for all data center components.As an Enterprise Manager administrator you are responsible of a wide variety of tasks including discovering and maintaining targets, deploying plugins, tuning…

Any upgrade has its challenges and this presentation will explain how the Electric Reliability Council of Texas used the lessons learned from the OEM 12c R2 to R4 upgrade to simplify and streamline the upgrade to R5 (12.1.0.5). We will discuss the considerations and challenges that were made and encountered that provided for a solid…

Learn about latest ways to upgrade, migrate, and consolidate databases in Oracle Database 12c. This hands on lab includes; upgrading using the new command-line parallel upgrade script, plugging that database into container database, and migrating a database to a pluggable database using the full transportable export/import feature. #IOUGeniusDBReady

Original Broadcast: April 27, 2017 As DBAs already know, storage responsiveness is critical to database performance. Unfortunately, most storage arrays are unaware of database workload requirements and treat all I/Os the same. To solve these challenges, Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol (OISP) was introduced with Oracle Database 12c With OISP, the database sends hints to Oracle…

As many DBAs adopt Enterprise Manager 12c, they become aware that the product is more of a self service product than "plug-n-play". This session will cover the basics of a six part series on Enterprise Manager 12c, along with many aspects from Apress' Expert Enterprise Manager 12c the presenter was co-author on. Special emphasis will…

By Rich Niemiec, Viscosity North America  ◾ Michelle Malcher, Editor This is part one of an article series focused on new Oracle 12c R1 and R2 new features that I cover in my new book, Oracle 12c Release 2 Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques (Oracle Press). This first part will cover upgrade paths, INMEMORY_SIZE, In-Memory Column…

In the past three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of large enterprises.The reason for private cloud adoption is simple – providing competitive business edge through continuous delivery. Providing developers with databases on demand while improving operational efficiency in a consolidated infrastructure is achievable using…

Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a broad set of IT management capabilities in a single solution—capable of completely managing an enterprise cloud environment. However, to achieve the benefits of this environment, Oracle Enterprise Manager’s framework itself must be implemented properly—for scalability, availability, performance, extensibility, and required customizations for your environment. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c provides a…

The challenge with every new release of the Oracle Database is how does one get there? In this presentation we will discuss the various methods to take your database to 12c along with the pros and cons of each. The challenge is to look at your applications, how they use the database and how much…

The Oracle Business Intelligence 12c platform represents an opportunity to drive game changing benefits for both IT and the Business by bringing together cutting edge architecture with next generation user experiences.  Come learn how Oracle is driving real innovation in the BI and Data Visualization arenas with exciting investments in our core server technology, as…