Douglas Hood
A DB developer and Product Manager for Oracle Application Tier Database Cache,
Oracle TimesTen, Oracle In-Memory and Oracle NoSQL.
I have used the Oracle Database since 5.1.
I focus of extreme performance and High Availability for the world's largest transactional systems.
Topic:
Using Docker/Kubernetes for Database Scalability and High Availability
Description:
Docker and Kubernetes are cool, but how do they work with persistent SQL relational Databases in production?
Learn how to use Kubernetes in both AWS and Oracle Cloud to manage large Oracle TimesTen Scaleout Database Clusters.
Learn how to use kubectl and YAML to do the hard stuff in any Cloud Native Computing Foundation system.
See K8 demos in AWS, Oracle Cloud and a VM.
Craig Shallahamer
Craig is a long time Oracle DBA who specializes in Oracle tuning and machine learning and started the OraPub website in 1995. Craig is a performance researcher and blogger, consultant, author of two books, an enthusiastic conference speaker and a passionate teacher to thousands of Oracle professionals.
Topic:
Powerful: Practical Machine Learning In The Hands Of The DBA/Developer
Description:
Powerful Machine Learning (ML) is now available to everyone. Over the past few years, a number of changes have occurred making this possible. As Oracle DBAs/Developers, it is now our turn to leverage ML, enabling us to do things never before possible.
But it's not that simple. There is a lot to learn. Everything from methodology to math to tools. And then the nagging question of, as a DBA/Developer is there a real application in my work?
The good news is, I have been able to leverage aspects of ML for many years. But now is the time to push all that ML has to offer into our work. And in our work, we can do things never before possible. It's taking the DBA/Developer to a whole new level.
So, in this presentation I'm going to introduce you to the world of ML from a DBA/Developer perspective. This includes understanding what ML is, why use it and why now. The ah-ha moment will occur when you learn that there are many algorithms within the ML umbrella to choose from. I'll pick two of algorithms, demonstrating how I used them to answer difficult DBA/Developer type questions. One will be at a high level and the other I'll walk you step-by-step through the process.
Now is the time for Oracle DBAs/Developers to step into the world of ML, because it is powerful, practical and enables us to do things we have never been able to do before.
Conor McDnoald
Connor McDonald is an Oracle developer advocate for Oracle Corporation. He has co-authored three books and has been a popular speaker at Oracle conferences around the world, specializing in topics regarding the database engine and PL/SQL.
Topic:
The Latest and Greatest Features
Description:
Whilst most fanfare on 12.2/18c/19c is about cloud-first, sharding, and autonomous database.
There is a multitude of other enhancements that DBAs and Developers would benefit from immediately.
This session focuses on the lesser known but still critical new features and improvements in 12.2/18c and even 19c.
Francisco Munoz Alvarez
Francisco Munoz Alvarez is an author and popular speaker at many Oracle conferences around the world. He was also the founder of LAOUC and actual President of CLOUG (Chilean Oracle Users Group), APACOUC (APAC Oracle Users Group Community, which is the umbrella organization for all of APAC), and NZOUG (New Zealand Oracle Users Group).
Topic:
Python,Oracle Cloud, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - The Perfect Combination
Description:
Python is probably the most trending programming language you can learn these days!
It's very popular because it's easy to learn and use, runs on all operating systems and allows you to build a broad variety of programs: Be that web applications, desktop applications, utility scripts or using it for data science and machine learning.
In this session, you'll learn how to use Python within Oracle Cloud - and you'll do so by going step by step in how to build your own Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. These are of course also highly trending topics and not a lot of people understand what a Blockchain really is.
A must attend sessions for any IT Professional!
Kai Yu
Kai Yu is a Distinguished Engineer in Dell EMC Solutions Engineering and a member of Dell Technical Leadership Community. Kai has 26 years’ experience of architecting and implementing various IT solutions by specializing in Oracle RAC database, Oracle BI and Oracle EBS, Cloud. Kai has been a frequent speaker at various IT/Oracle conferences and several Oracle OTN/Grounbreaker tours with over 170 presentations in more than 20 countries.
Topic:
Leveraging Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for Advanced Analytic and Machine Learning
Description:
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) provides a fully automated data warehouse specific features to deliver outstanding query performance.
As a fully managed cloud service running on high performance Oracle Infrastructure Cloud (OCI), ADW also comes Oracle advanced analytics’ data mining algorithms and a new set of tools such as Zeppelin-based SQL notebooks for predicative analytics and machine learning.
This session will examine the architecture of Oracle ADW and its collaborative environment. Then we will discuss how application developers and data scientists can leverage this environment: how import and export large set of data to/from ADW database instance, how to build, evaluate, and apply machine learning models with these data mining algorithms using SQL notebooks.
With several examples, I will share some troubleshooting experiences and tips of building such advanced analytics and Oracle machine learning applications in Oracle ADW.
Christian Shay
Christian Shay is a product manager in the Database Technologies group at Oracle. As a .NET and Oracle Database on Windows evangelist, he speaks to user groups, at Microsoft events and at Oracle events worldwide.
Topic:
Developing Microservices with .NET Core and Kubernetes
Description:
.NET Core is a popular cross-platform technology useful for developing microservices that leverage docker containers, while Kubernetes is a platform for managing containerized workloads and services that facilitates configuration and automation. In this session we will show how to get started developing microservices using .NET Core and deploy into a Kubernetes environment in the cloud using Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes. We'll point out the latest tips and tricks and also alert you to gotchas to watch out for.
Malay Kumar Khawas
Oracle CIO Award Winner, Malay Kumar Khawas is a skilled Solution Engineer and Oracle Enterprise Architect.
Malay amplifies business results using his extensive experience on Oracle Engineered System, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Database Administration and Oracle EBS Administration.
Topic:
18 Methods to Migrate Your Database to Oracle Cloud DBSystem
Description:
Oracle Cloud is creating its mark in the cloud market in big way and as a leader on Database Technology; Oracle has build OCI Gen2 Cloud for best performce. It is inevitable for DBAs to understand the tips and tricks of migrating workload to Oracle Cloud. In this technical presentation, lets walk through best 18 methods of migrating databases to Oracle Cloud DBSystem and Autonomous Database. How these methods are used for real customer migration, how the downtime for migration is reduced, what are the best practices and standards used for these migration. All questions related to Oracle Cloud migration would be answered in this session.
From our multiple experiences of Oracle Cloud Migrations, learning on downtime reduction, choosing appropriate method and validations would be shared.
Patrick Barel
Patrick Barel is a PL/SQL Developer for Qualogy in the Netherlands. Besides working with SQL and PL/SQL he wrote different plug-ins for PL/SQL Developer. He publishes articles on his own blog.
In 2015 he received the Oracle Developer Choice Award in the PL/SQL Category.
In 2019 he has been promoted to ACE Director.
Topic:
Get your money’s worth out of your Database
Description:
The database is one of the most important assets to your application. Besides being one of the most important assets it is also one of the most expensive parts in your application. Most organizations don’t get the most out of their database license and treat it like a simple bit bucket. The modern Oracle database can do so much more than just store data.
This presentation will show these features as well as some of the enhancements in the Oracle 12c Database including:
- Identity columns (12c)
- Invisible columns (12c)
- Whitelisting PL/SQL program units (12c)
- Improvement of execution of PL/SQL in a SQL query (12c)
- Cross session Result cache (both SQL and PL/SQL) (11g)
Alex Keh
Alex Keh is a senior principal product manager at Oracle focusing on data access and database integration with .NET and Windows. He's spoken previously at many Microsoft and Oracle events, including Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, VSLive!, Oracle Develop, ODTUG Kscope, and Oracle OpenWorld.
Topic:
Eliminate Application Downtime with Oracle Database and .NET
Description:
Oracle Database brings unprecedented high availability to .NET applications by eliminating major sources of end user service disruptions from planned and unplanned downtime. And it does so with few to zero changes required to the applications themselves by using Oracle's advanced Fast Application Notification infrastructure. Transparent Application Continuity enables database request replay when a recoverable error makes the database session unavailable. Transaction Guard ensures at-most-once execution in the case of database outages. Oracle planned outage capabilities ensure that end users never experience an error when a database or service is taken offline. Transparent Application Failover (TAF) automatically restores session state after a failover. This session discusses how Oracle Data Provider for .NET can use all these capabilities to make the user experience seamless during and after an outage.
Raj Rathee
Raj Rathee is a Sr. Director of Product Management at Oracle. He is responsible for Oracle Database In-Memory as well as a number of other product areas. Raj’s career has been focused on databases and data management. He has broad experience in roles across software engineering, product management as well as business development and go-to-market. Raj graduated with a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Waterloo, Canada.
Topic:
Database In-Memory: When to Use And Getting Started
Description:
Oracle Database In-Memory promises an incredible performance boost for analytic workloads. This presentation provides a step-by-step guide on when and how you should take advantage of Database In-Memory. We will describe example use cases and the steps necessary to get started with Database In-Memory. Strategies to identify which objects to populate into memory, how to identify which indexes to drop, and the basics of configuration and data population into the in-memory column store are also covered. By the end of the session, attendees will have the knowledge necessary to get their first Database In-Memory enabled Oracle Database up and running.
Gavin Parish
Gavin is a Senior Principal Product Manager in Oracle’s Exadata team, with a focus on making Exadata a better platform for all Oracle database workloads by driving its’ software and hardware roadmap. Prior to joining the Exadata team, Gavin was a founding member of the Product Management team responsible for launching the industry’s first on-premises Public Cloud technology - Oracle Cloud at Customer. Having been with Oracle for 15 years in PM, Presales and Consulting roles, Gavin has helped customers architect and implement a variety of Oracle infrastructure and application technologies, and has a robust understanding of all things Oracle.
Topic:
Exadata: Architecture and Internals Technical Deep Dive
Description:
Take a plunge into the technical details of Exadata. This session describes what has been done to enhance Exadata and its integrated database architecture, and how to take maximum advantage of some of the new capabilities. This session examines in detail Exadata’s hardware and software architecture, database extensions for Exadata, I/O resource management, Exadata’s Smart Scan and Smart Flash Cache features, as well as snapshot and virtualization capabilities.