Take your pick. Oracle Database performance guru Craig Shallahamer will present a whole-day performance tuning seminar as part of the conference. There will also be a full track of sessions on Oracle Cloud. Where else except at NoCOUG, the longest-running and most-active Oracle Database user group in the world?
CLOUD TRACK
Engineering at Cloud Scale: Solving Today’s Most Complex Database Challenges—Kodi Umamageswaran, Oracle Vice President
Today’s database users are facing unique challenges, there is an exponential growth in the amount of data they manage but they have to deduce results from this data in an ever-shrinking time window. Similarly the transaction volumes are growing significantly but the expected response time to process them is shrinking constantly. Not only the database systems should run these competing workloads with competing priorities but also provide a security architecture that is invulnerable to the ever-evolving security threats of the modern world without compromising availability. This talks focuses about how Oracle is solving these problems – scaling the platform to run hundreds of databases and yet managing them as one, providing hundreds of gigabytes of throughput and still maintaining ultra low microseconds latency, keeping the platform secure with carrier-grade availability.
Getting started with Oracle Database Cloud Service—Robert Greene, Oracle
Experience the Oracle Database as a pay-per-use Cloud Platform Service. Get an overview of the capabilities the service delivers and the specifics of its deployment choices. Checkout the user experience from a First Person view and learn about new administration and development automation capabilities. See a live walk through of a service instance, the stack of tools available and learn a little something about where Oracle is headed with Database as a Service in the Oracle Cloud.
Exadata Cloud Service—Ashish Ray, Oracle Vice President
Oracle Exadata Cloud Service is Oracle's public cloud offering for running business-critical Oracle databases on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine. It combines the renowned power of the Exadata database platform with the operational simplicity and pay-as-you-grow economics of the cloud. For the first time, customers can run their Oracle databases in the cloud with the same functionality, performance and availability experienced by 1,000s of organizations deploying Exadata on-premises. This session provides a technical overview of the Exadata Cloud Service along with best practices for efficiently deploying, managing and scaling Oracle Databases in the Cloud.
Technical Deep Dive into Amazon RDS for Oracle—Dallas Willett, Amazon
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle provides advanced features and architectures that enable high availability, security, and graceful migration for Oracle database workloads to the cloud. Learn how Amazon RDS can provide you the uptime and compliance your production databases need. Dive into best practices for using the features of Amazon RDS in a variety topologies for different situations. This session teaches you to take advantage of features unique to Amazon RDS to free your databases from the confines of the conventional data center
Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service—Sridhar Ranganathan, Oracle
Abstract: Storing database backups off-site is critical for your enterprise to be disaster ready. To reduce application downtime, stored data must be accessible 24x7. Enter the Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service. Storing backups in the Oracle Cloud provides a great alternative to more expensive and resource consuming data protection and remote vaulting capabilities. The pay-as-you-go, elastic self-provisioning model means that you can get started and scale up quickly. Attend this session to learn about the service, use cases and see how easy it is to get started with the Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service!
PERFORMANCE TRACK
How To Choose Your Best Oracle Performance Analysis Strategy—Craig Shallahamer, OraPub
It’s an unhappy user. What is your best strategy? As Oracle DBAs we have two fundamental performance analysis strategies: time based and sample based (ASH). Knowing their differences and how to exploit them gives you the edge. In this seminar, Craig introduces each strategy, highlights how they work and contrasts their differences. Then he will demonstrate each strategy ending with three situational videos and YOU choose the best strategy. It's easy... once you have mastered the material in this presentation!
Tuning Oracle Using An AWR Report—Craig Shallahamer, OraPub
Tuning Oracle Using An AWR Report teaches Oracle DBAs how to make Oracle database systems fast using an AWR or Statspack report. Craig will lead you through the entire process turning you into a respected performance analyst. No more flipping through an entire AWR report top-to-bottom desperately searching for answers! You will learn how to develop solutions that are spot-on and everyone will know it. You will know what to do, do it fast, and be able to explain the situation with clarity and confidence.
Let’s Build Something! Building Your Own ASH Toolkit—Craig Shallahamer, OraPub
Let's build something! ASH provides Oracle DBAs with an amazing set of performance data. In this video seminar Craig will show you how to build three highly flexible ASH-based scripts: summary, top anything and session time-line. Throughout the seminar Craig explains and demonstrates scripts on a real Oracle workload. Whether you use these scripts or not, you will have a very deep understanding about ASH and how to effectively use it.
How To Use R In Your Performance Analysis Work—Craig Shallahamer, OraPub
If you want to add some legitimate statistics and visualizations to your professional toolkit, then you need to learn the basics of R. R is the free statistics package used by nearly all university graduates and increasingly in the BI and DBA community. It is super easy to install and get started. In this presentation Craig will demonstrate how to install R, how use a simple SQLPlus script to gather Oracle performance data formatted for R, how to statistically summarize the data, and how to visualize the data using histograms, scatter plots and line plots. It's a lot, but it won't take long because R rocks!
Incident Analysis Using ASH Data—Craig Shallahamer, OraPub
If you want to learn how to use ASH to solve random short-lived performance incidents, you will find this presentation very valuable. In this session, Craig will begin with why ASH (active session history) is so awesome, how it works and how we use ASH to solve very complex Oracle performance incidents. Using OraPub's free BloodHound toolkit, Craig will lead you through an incident analysis process resulting in a graphical visualization of the situation. To do this, he will use his BloodHound toolkit and the free statistics package R.
VENDOR TRACK
Oracle Licensing and Compliance—Mohammad Inamullah, Redwood Compliance
Oracle licensing can be complicated. The risk of non-compliance and the cost of over-licensing make it ever more important to get Oracle licensing right. We will distill and discuss Oracle licensing topics that we consider to be the most important, beneficial, and, often times, misunderstood. We will cover key contractual and licensing concepts, as well as risk factors for Oracle non-compliance; maintaining a healthy relationship with Oracle; the role of Sales and Oracle’s License Management Services (LMS); Oracle on VMware; Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs); and license audits.
Cohesity Data Protect for Oracle Database—Sunil Moolchandani, Cohesity
Cohesity Data Protect converges all your data protection infrastructure on the Cohesity platform—including backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Cohesity Data Protect ensures strict application SLAs while cutting data protection costs up to 70%. Converge backup software, replication, and target storage in one integrated solution. Reduce RPOs to 15 minutes and enable instantaneous RTOs. Reduce CAPEX and OPEX by 70% with a single solution for end-to-end data protection.
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