In this session get a first look at Oracle Cloud’s new free tier, including new always free services such as Oracle Autonomous Database with Oracle Application Express. Learn what always free services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Autonomous Database are available now. Get details on service shapes, specifications, and regional availability. See live examples…

Since 2016, Nationwide has leveraged Oracle Enterprise Manager's Fleet Maintenance feature to effectively and proactively patch its Oracle Database environment to address critical vulnerabilities and maintain version currency. In this session learn how Nationwide used Oracle Enterprise Manager's Fleet Maintenance feature to patch more than 7,000 databases over a three-year period, with a success rate…

Powerful Machine Learning (ML) is upon us. As Oracle DBAs, it is now our turn to leverage ML, enabling us to do things never before possible. But it's not that simple. So, in this presentation I'm going to introduce you to the world of ML from a DBA perspective. This includes understanding what ML is,…

  Oracle Database 19c has hundreds of powerful features that help secure your data, and new capabilities are added with every release. In this session join Oracle product managers to discover 10 security features you may not be aware of. These features can help you streamline user administration, reduce your attack surface, deploy more-secure applications,…

  Oracle Database 19c has hundreds of powerful features that help secure your data, and new capabilities are added with every release. In this session join Oracle product managers to discover 10 security features you may not be aware of. These features can help you streamline user administration, reduce your attack surface, deploy more-secure applications,…

  This session answers the question, “What’s new in Oracle Database 19c?” in a slightly different way: by providing best practices and a deep dive into the most impactful high availability (HA), scalability, and lifecycle management features in Oracle Database 12c, 18c and 19c, including a short roadmap of features yet to come in the…

Imagine being able to prove a performance problem is not a database issue. There are few ways to infer the problem resides elsewhere, but it's difficult for people to believe you. However, by creatively using ASH data and the idle wait event "SQL*Net message from client" we can do this. In this presentation, I will…

  This session answers the question, “What’s new in Oracle Database 19c?” in a slightly different way: by providing best practices and a deep dive into the most impactful high availability (HA), scalability, and lifecycle management features in Oracle Database 12c, 18c and 19c, including a short roadmap of features yet to come in the…

A number of polls taken during various PL/SQL-related presentations paint a very strange picture: one of the most-critical FREE server-side performance-tuning tools is almost totally unknown! If you ask basic questions such as, “How much time is spent on routine A?” or “How often is function B called?” most developers would start to hand-code their…

A number of polls taken during various PL/SQL-related presentations paint a very strange picture: one of the most-critical FREE server-side performance-tuning tools is almost totally unknown! If you ask basic questions such as, “How much time is spent on routine A?” or “How often is function B called?” most developers would start to hand-code their…