Sessions Related to Database High Availability Monday October 1 GEN8259 General Session: What s Next for Oracle Database? Monday 10:45 pm Moscone North, Hall D Consolidating databases onto private clouds, utilizing database services in public clouds, deploying engineered instead of manually built systems, and integrating big data into business intelligence applications and dashboards are top priorities for many IT organizations. Oracle Database is fundamental to the success of IT projects such as these, but what can customers anticipate next? Join Oracle Senior Vice President Andy Mendelsohn in this session to learn how the latest innovations from Oracle Database Server Technologies can help accelerate IT projects, protect enterprise data, lower IT costs, and add value to the business. Speaker: Andrew Mendelsohn (Oracle) CON8395 Oracle Data Guard Zero-Data-Loss Protection at Any Distance Monday 12:15 pm Moscone South 300 Oracle Data Guard knocks down barriers to providing a 100 percent guarantee that data is protected regardless of the distance between production and disaster recovery sites. You must attend this session if performance concerns have been an obstacle to implementing synchronous zero-data-loss protection. Eliminate data loss and simplify recovery for every Oracle Data Guard configuration by using a single-standby database and new capabilities for synchronous transport over a wide-area network, with little or no performance impact and minimal additional cost or management complexity. The session also presents the gold standard of data protection: Oracle Data Guard configurations that use multiple standbys for best protection and to reduce planned and unplanned downtime. Speakers: Joseph Meeks (Oracle), Madhu Tumma (J P Morgan) CON8262 Future of Oracle Exadata: Developments for OLTP, Warehousing, and Consolidation Monday 12:15 pm Moscone South 104 Oracle Exadata is changing the database landscape for OLTP, data warehousing, and consolidation. Come to this session to hear about the latest Oracle Exadata technology and where Oracle Exadata is going in the future. Speaker: Juan Loaiza (Oracle) CON8519 Automating ILM with the Latest Generation of Database Technology Monday 1:45 pm Moscone South 300 Oracle Database has several components that can be combined to implement automated information lifecycle management (ILM), including Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Advanced Compression, and Oracle Database s Hybrid Columnar Compression feature. These capabilities enable you to retain more data for longer in your production databases while significantly reducing storage costs and increasing performance. In addition, the management overhead for Oracle Database ILM is low, enabling IT departments to achieve these benefits while minimizing staff requirements. Speakers: Kevin Jernigan, Vineet Marwah (Oracle)
CON8398 Extracting Data in Oracle GoldenGate Integrated Capture Mode Monday 1:45 pm Moscone South 102 The Integrated Capture mode of extract, available in Oracle GoldenGate Release 11.2.1, is specific to Oracle Database, using native database mining to capture database changes. This session focuses on the new capabilities; datatypes, such as compressed tables and XMLType; and advantages available in this mode and presents configuration recommendations for best performance. Speakers: Joydip Kundu, Lik Wong (Oracle) CON8379 Maximize Enterprise Availability with the Latest Generation of Database Technology Monday 3:15 pm Moscone South 303 Oracle Database offers a powerful set of high-availability (HA) capabilities integrated with standardized best practices for reducing both planned and unplanned downtime. Many of Oracle s HA innovations are driven by increasingly stringent availability requirements from Oracle s global customers, which see 24/7 demands on their own products and services continuing to multiply. Come to this session to learn how you can use the innovative HA capabilities in the latest release of Oracle Database to attain best-in-class availability for your enterprise. Speaker: Wei Hu (Oracle) CON11256 Mission-Critical Oracle Exadata OLTP Deployment at PayPal Monday 4:45 pm Moscone South 102 In this technical session, the groundbreaking high-technology financial company Paypal presents and reviews its experiences with deploying and using Oracle Exadata. This company is a leader in its field, and there is much to be gleaned from its experiences with deploying critical innovative applications on Oracle Exadata. The wide-ranging conversation includes deployment architecture, performance, installation, administration, migration, applications, high availability, DBA experiences, and future deployment plans. There is also be an open Q&A period in which attendees will get the opportunity to participate. Speakers: Lawrence To (Oracle), Amit Das (PayPal) CON8511 Temporal Database Capabilities with the Latest Generation of Database Technology Monday 4:45 pm Moscone South 300 Oracle Database provides temporal database functionality with Oracle Total Recall, a database option introduced in 2007 in Oracle Database 11g. Oracle Total Recall automatically tracks changes with minimal performance impact, with a secure, storage-efficient, application transparent implementation. Attend this session to understand how Oracle Database provides support for temporal database requirements and how its temporal capabilities can be extended. Speakers: Venkatesh Radhakrishnan, Kevin Jernigan (Oracle), Dean Logan Wood (Trafigura)
Tuesday, October 2 CON8380 Database Tables to Storage Bits: Data Protection Best Practices for Oracle Database Tuesday 10:15 am Moscone South 300 Oracle Database powers 24/7 businesses around the world, hosting data that simply cannot be lost, corrupted, or damaged in any way. In the event of such an unforeseen incident, administrators must quickly recover lost data with minimal disruption to the business. With database-integrated technologies such as Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Database s Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) feature, and Oracle Flashback, as well as storage technologies such as snapshots and mirroring, there are many data protection choices available for Oracle Database. Come to this session to gain a deep technical understanding of these technologies, under what real-life recovery scenarios it makes sense to use which technology, and how they can be combined to provide the highest levels of availability. Speakers: Gurmeet Goindi, Ashish Ray (Oracle), Gagan Singh (Intel) CON8399 Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Guard: Working Together Seamlessly Tuesday 10:15 am Moscone South 305 Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Guard are two complementary solutions that can be integrated together seamlessly in Oracle cloud implementations. This session focuses on how both modes of extract (Classic and Integrated Capture) can be used with Oracle Data Guard for disaster recovery purposes or to offload extract processing. Speaker: Joydip Kundu (Oracle) CON8396 Oracle Active Data Guard Zero-Downtime Database Maintenance Tuesday 11:45 am Moscone South 300 This session describes how to automate the process of executing many different kinds of system and database planned maintenance in a rolling fashion with Oracle Data Guard. This enables true zero-downtime maintenance for read-only users in an Oracle Active Data Guard configuration (note that read/write operations will experience a short service interruption while a standby database is switched to the primary role). Unlike the numerous manual steps required in previous releases, new automation reduces risk and complexity, making it easy to eliminate or reduce downtime by performing maintenance in a rolling fashion. Speakers: Joydip Kundu, Larry Carpenter (Oracle), Kalyan Kumar Kallepally (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) CON8489 Using Oracle Automatic Storage Management with the Latest-Generation Technology Tuesday 11:45 am Moscone South 301 Oracle Database s Automatic Storage Management feature provides integrated storage management capability for Oracle Database. Many new features introduced with the latest release of Oracle Database deliver Automatic Storage Management as cloud-ready. In essence, this means that Automatic Storage Management provides greater agility and that it supports larger configurations and clusters than ever. Even if you are not creating private clouds inside your enterprise, you will find that the features presented in this session offer new opportunities for making storage management for the Oracle Database environment much easier than ever. If you have deployed Automatic Storage Management, this is a must-see session. If not, then what are you waiting for? Speaker: Jim Williams (Oracle)
CON8390 The Four Ts of Oracle Recovery Manager: Tips, Tuning, Troubleshooting, and...? Tuesday 1:15 pm Moscone South 102 Oracle Database s Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) feature is an often used but not thoroughly understood backup-and-recovery solution. Backups are taken day in and day out, week in and week out but what does this ultimately accomplish at the end of the day? If you have not restored your backups, how do you know your backups are good? Are there better ways to leverage Oracle RMAN for your database environments? If you do not know the answer to these questions, you need to attend this session! The presentation covers key Oracle RMAN configuration tips, performance tuning principles, troubleshooting guidelines, and a special hot-off-the-press bonus topic for reducing downtime in cross-platform migration scenarios. Speakers: Timothy Chien (Oracle), Alan Williams (Autodesk) CON8392 Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Best Practices for Oracle Exadata Tuesday 5:00 pm Moscone South 303 Oracle Exadata is one of the most innovative engineered systems available today, and Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture provides the high-availability (HA) blueprint for a variety of Oracle technologies. Come to this session to learn how Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture best practices are tightly integrated and applied to Oracle Exadata for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehouse customers, reducing downtime from unplanned outages and planned maintenance activities. Specific topics include Oracle Exadata hardware fault tolerance, migrating to Oracle Exadata with minimal downtime, configuring Oracle Database s Oracle Automatic Storage Management feature, Oracle Data Guard, backup and recovery, cloning, patching, and upgrading. Speakers: Michael Smith, Joseph Meeks (Oracle), Rahul Pednekar (Bank of America)
Wednesday, October 3 CON8394 Operational Best Practices for Oracle Exadata Wednesday 10:15 am Moscone South 102 Oracle Exadata is one of the most innovative engineered systems available today, supporting mission-critical businesses around the world. In this session, Oracle Exadata Systems Engineering architects detail the various best practices that must be adopted to keep your Oracle Exadata system operating with the highest levels of availability and efficiency. Specific topics include using the exachk utility to identify and correct configuration gaps, configuring automated service requests for hardware fault detection, configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control for real-time and custom alerts, best practices related to testing, patching and upgrades, relevant My Oracle Support notes, and more. Speakers: Lawrence To, Michael Smith (Oracle), Andy Colvin (Enkitec) CON8481 Maximize Availability by Minimizing Disruption to End Users and Applications Wednesday 10:15 am Moscone South 301 Unplanned database outages are painful to users, because they ripple all the way up the stack, leaving them not knowing the outcome of their last operation and often requiring data re-entry and application restarts. This session discusses how the latest generation of database technology can help mask recoverable outages, which are typically related to underlying software, hardware, communication, and storage layers. This new functionality enables applications to guarantee the outcome of in-flight transactions, eliminating the risk of duplicate submissions. Speakers: Tong Zhou, Carol Colrain, Michael Timpanaro-Perrotta (Oracle) CON8400 Best Practices for High Availability with Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Exadata Wednesday 11:45 am Moscone South 102 This session covers best practices for maximizing availability and replication performance with Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Exadata. The session includes tips on configuration for extract and replicate and discusses the use of Oracle Database s Database File System feature for trail and checkpoint files. Speakers: Stephan Haisley, Jagdev Dhillon (Oracle) CON8484 What s New in the Latest Generation of Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) Wednesday 11:45 am Moscone South 104 This session covers best practices for maximizing availability and replication performance with Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Exadata. The session includes tips on configuration for extract and replicate and discusses the use of Oracle Database s Database File System feature for trail and checkpoint files. Speakers: John McHugh, Markus Michalewicz (Oracle)
CON8391 Oracle Secure Backup: Integration Best Practices with Engineered Systems Wednesday 1:15 pm Moscone South 300 Oracle Secure Backup is the Oracle-recommended tape backup management solution for Oracle engineered systems, providing the most cost-effective Oracle integrated solution in the industry. This session shows how Oracle Secure Backup addresses the best practice strategies applicable to each engineered system, from backing up Oracle Database to protection of file system data with traditional or Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup methods. Tightly integrated with Oracle Database s Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) feature, Oracle Secure Backup delivers stellar performance with about 25 percent faster database backups to tape than others. Oracle Secure Backup domains are managed with Oracle Enterprise Manager for a familiar user experience for managing Oracle environments. Speakers: Donna Cooksey (Oracle), Pedro Galán (Transportes Azkar) CON8565 Application MAA Best Practices on Oracle Private Clouds Wednesday 1:15 pm Moscone South 200 In this technical session, you ll learn how Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture can be deployed on the Oracle Exadata and Exalogic private cloud platform to deliver the highest levels of availability for Oracle applications and their databases. Specifically, the presentation examines the best way to architect and deploy Oracle Applications including Oracle E-Business Suite and the Siebel and PeopleSoft product families for maximum availability when deployed individually and when consolidated in a private cloud. Speakers: Marilyn Pratt, Darryl Presley (Oracle) CON8401 Tuning and Troubleshooting Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Database Wednesday 5:00 pm Moscone South 102 This session covers techniques for performance tuning and troubleshooting of Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Database. Using various types of workloads (OLTP, batch, Oracle s PeopleSoft Enterprise), the presentation steps through the process of monitoring and troubleshooting the configuration to maximize performance and replication throughput within and between Oracle clouds. This session is part of the Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture series. Speakers: Stephan Haisley, Patricia McElroy (Oracle)
Thursday, October 4 CON8397 Integrate Your Globally Distributed Databases for Key Cloud Computing Benefits Thursday 11:15 am Moscone South 300 Enterprises often use technologies such as Oracle Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate for their disaster recovery and replication needs. Distributing workload over multiple databases can bring data closer to clients, improve performance and scalability, and help you get more value out of IT assets. However, when applications are spread across multiple databases and potentially also across data centers, it can be challenging to efficiently use all of your databases in a way that provides the best performance and availability. Come to this session to learn how you can leverage new Oracle technologies that extend Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) workload management to support service failover and load balancing across replicated databases for local or global deployments. Speakers: Srinagesh Battula, Cristobal Pedregal-Martin (Oracle), Sarah Brydon (PayPal) CON8277 Backup and Recovery of Oracle Exadata: Experiences and Best Practices Thursday 12:45 pm Moscone South 300 How should backup, restore, and recovery of Oracle Exadata be done? What techniques and architecture are optimum for the ongoing backup process and restore and recovery (B&R) of a database after media failure, hardware failure, or loss of the data center? How do you integrate the Oracle Exadata backup procedures into your existing B&R processes? How do you implement the available B&R technology, and what are the trade-offs of doing online backup of Oracle Exadata storage, Oracle s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, and tape coupled with using Oracle Data Guard? This session explores the technical details of deploying the best B&R system for your environment and shows how real-world production customers answered these questions. Speakers: Donna Cooksey, Andrew Babb (Oracle)
Demos by High Availability Development Team Oracle DEMOgrounds - Moscone South Exhibition Hall Monday 10:00a-6:00p, Tuesday 9:45a-6:00p, Wednesday 9:45a-4:00p 2964 Oracle Active Data Guard Moscone South, Left - S-007 Learn how Oracle Active Data Guard delivers real-time data protection and availability by eliminating single points of failure using one or more exact replicas of the production database (standby databases) located across town, across the country, or across continents. See how Oracle Active Data Guard takes the term "standby" out of standby database by using it to offload read-only and read-mostly applications from the production database, increasing return on investment and improving performance for all workloads. See manageability enhancements in the Data Guard Broker feature that enable fast, reliable, and easily repeatable switchovers for planned maintenance, and failovers for fast recovery from unplanned outages. 3048 Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle RAC One Node Moscone South, Left - S-008 Learn more about Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node. These products provide the best possible availability for databases, while increasing scalability and flexibility. See how to use these products as the foundation of a consolidated database cloud to reduce your costs an increase your agility. 3273 Oracle Database 12c Application Continuity Moscone South, Left - S-009 Unplanned database outages ripple all the way up the stack, leaving users not knowing the outcome of their last operation, often requiring data re-entry, and applications to be restarted. Application Continuity, a new feature of Oracle Database 12c, masks recoverable outages, typically related to underlying software, hardware, communication or storage layers. This feature recovers the database session beneath the application so that an outage appears to users as a delayed execution. New functionality allows applications to guarantee the outcome of in-flight transactions, eliminating the risk of duplicate submissions. 2967 Oracle Database 12c: Global Data Services Moscone South, Left - S-010 This demo showcases Oracle Database technologies that enable the delivery of database services on a global scale, which is key to deploying databases in a global cloud architecture. These technologies oversee replication and failover and leverage Oracle Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate solutions, and perform load balancing over databases within and across data centers. 3033 Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Moscone South, Left - S-011 See Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture best practices in action. Demonstrations utilize Oracle Active Data Guard, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, Oracle Flashback, Oracle Exadata, and more. Demonstrations include a number of outage scenarios, along with operational best practices that proactively minimize unplanned and planned downtime. Demonstrations are staffed by Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture engineers who can share practical knowledge gained from validating Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture best practices both in Oracle labs and through work with numerous Oracle customer production deployments worldwide. 3034 Oracle Secure Backup Moscone South, Left - S-014 Oracle Secure Backup provides centralized tape backup management for entire IT environments, including Oracle Databases and distributed heterogeneous file systems. Oracle Secure Backup s built-in integration with Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager provides an optimized, validated tape backup solution for Oracle Databases and Oracle Engineered Systems including Oracle Exadata. Learn how to use the Oracle Enterprise Manager interface and Oracle Secure Backup s policy-based management infrastructure to address backup and recovery challenges including tape vaulting and backup encryption. Compare Oracle Secure Backup s low-cost licensing to any integrated backup application: Oracle Secure Backup delivers significant cost savings.
3197 Oracle Database 12c XStream, Oracle Streams, Oracle Advanced Queuing Mosc. South, Left - S-018 This demo highlights message queuing and notification features in the database. Learn about customized replication between databases using Oracle Streams; XStream, which provides high-speed programmatic access to database changes; and a streaming API that applies database changes in parallel in Oracle Database. 2965 Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback Technologies Moscone South, Left - S-019 This demo showcases how Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback protect against media and logical failures in the database. Oracle Recovery Manager provides comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities, leveraging a deep understanding of Oracle's block structure for robust validation and superior performance. Oracle Flashback complements Oracle Recovery Manager by providing database-integrated logical error repair capabilities for rows, tables, or the entire database. As compared to conventional recovery methods, Oracle Flashback dramatically improves recovery time objectives by rewinding just the erroneous changes at the object or block level. Learn how these solutions effectively meet your toughest data protection challenges. 3373 Oracle GoldenGate 11gR2: Real-Time, Transactional DB Replication Moscone South, Left - S-027 Oracle GoldenGate 11gR2 offers real-time, transactional data replication between heterogeneous systems. It provides low-impact change data capture, distribution, and delivery with subsecond latency. This demo walks through the new features of Oracle GoldenGate 11gR2 and also outlines how the product enables a zero-downtime migrations to Oracle Exadata. It also shows how users can leverage Oracle GoldenGate after the migration to implement an operational reporting solution without impacting the production environment.
HIGH AVAILABILITY QUICK REFERENCE Room numbers are in Moscone South unless noted otherwise Monday 1 October Sessions 10:45a General Session: What s Next for Oracle Database?, Moscone North, Hall D 12:15p Oracle Data Guard Zero-Data-Loss Protection at Any Distance, 300 Future of Oracle Exadata: Developments for OLTP, Warehousing, and Consolidation, 104 1:45p Automating ILM with the Latest Generation of Database Technology, 300 Extracting Data in Oracle GoldenGate Integrated Capture Mode, 102 3:15p Maximize Enterprise Availability with the Latest Generation of Database Technology, 303 4:45p Mission-Critical Oracle Exadata OLTP Deployment at PayPal, 102 Temporal Database Capabilities with the Latest Generation of Database Technology, 300 Tuesday 2 October Sessions 10:15a Database Tables to Storage Bits: Data Protection Best Practices for Oracle Database, 300 Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Guard: Working Together Seamlessly, 305 11:45a Oracle Active Data Guard Zero-Downtime Database Maintenance, 300 Using Oracle Automatic Storage Management with the Latest-Generation Technology, 301 1:15p The Four Ts of Oracle Recovery Manager: Tips, Tuning, Troubleshooting, and?, 102 5:00p Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Best Practices for Oracle Exadata, 303 Wednesday 3 October Sessions 10:15a Operational Best Practices for Oracle Exadata, 102 Maximize Availability by Minimizing Disruption to End Users and Application, 301 11:45a Best Practices for High Availability with Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Exadata, 102 What s New in the Latest Generation of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), 104 1:15p Oracle Secure Backup: Integration Best Practices with Engineered Systems, 300 Application MAA Best Practices on Oracle Private Clouds, 200 5:00p Tuning and Troubleshooting Oracle GoldenGate on Oracle Database, 102 Thursday 4 October Sessions 11:15a Integrate Your Globally Distributed Databases for Key Cloud Computing Benefits, 300 12:45p Backup and Recovery of Oracle Exadata: Experiences and Best Practices, 300 Demos by Database HA Development Moscone South Exhibition Hall Monday 10:00a-6:00p, Tuesday 9:45a-6:00p, Wednesday 9:45a-4:00p Dedicated hours: Monday 10:00a-10:45a, Tuesday 2:15p-2:45p, Wednesday 2:15p-3:30p Oracle Secure Backup - S-014 Oracle Active Data Guard S-007 Oracle RAC and Oracle RAC One Node - S-008 Oracle Database 12c Application Continuity - S-009 Oracle GoldenGate 11gR2: Real-Time, Transactional Database Replication - S-027 Oracle Database 12c: Global Data Services - S-010 Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture - S-011 Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Flashback Technologies - S-019 Oracle Database 12c XStream, Oracle Streams, Oracle Advanced Queuing S018