It’s that time of year again and the massive undertaking of the Collaborate conference is upon us. This yearly conference, a collaboration between Quest, Oracle Applications User Group, (OAUG) and Independent Oracle User Group, (IOUG) is one of the largest conferences in the world for those that specialize in all areas of the Oracle database. The conferene is held in different cities, but recently its been sticking to the great destination of Las Vegas, NV. We’ll be at the Mandalay, which like many casinos, is like it’s own little self-contained city within a city. The week will be crazy and…
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While at Collaborate on Monday, Oracle has been offered a spot to highlight The Oracle Management Cloud. OMC is a suite of next-generation monitoring and management cloud services designed for heterogeneous environments, all empowered by Oracle’s own cloud! The first three OMC services (Application Performance Monitoring, Log Analytics and IT Analytics) were launched at OpenWorld 2015. Both Log Analytics and IT Analytics contain must-have capabilities for DBAs. This is the only OMC session that will be available at Collaborate and it’s a not to miss session with an all-star cast to present on it. Manning the slides will be Brian…
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Working with test data is always fun and teaches those of us inside Oracle how best to use the new products that will be offered to benefit customers. To me, it’s pretty straight forward and I didn’t first understand why it was necessary, but as I sit in on calls as we do performance testing of these great, new products, I understand why they need to direct so many, so often. Anything performance is as much a mindset as it is a science. Application Performance Monitor, aka APM, is no different. I didn’t exactly “follow” the hands on labs each time we’ve been…
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So I’m about to depart for one day in San Antonio, Tx. to present at the International Performance and Capacity Conference, but I wanted to try to get another blog post out, this time regarding my survival at the 2015 Oracle Open World. I’m not sure if it just that the schedule was a month later than usual or that it was just more demanding this year, but I left on Friday, feeling utterly exhausted and judging by the tweets and posts from others on social media, I don’t think I was the only one! I always regret what I didn’t…
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This is one of about 40 blog posts I’ve been eagerly awaiting for permission to post on the Oracle Management Cloud, (OMC)! There are three main products that will be offered initially through the Oracle Management Cloud– Application Performance Monitoring, (APM) Log Analytics IT Analytics This post will focus on one area of the third offering of IT Analytics– Database Performance Analytics. How can advanced IT Analytics investigate database performance at the cloud level vs. on premise? We’ll take a look deeper into this Oracle Management Cloud feature today and hopefully give you just a taste of this incredible upcoming suite…