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DevOps and the Agile DBA

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The esteemed ACE Director alumna Kellyn Pot'Vin Gorman is hosting our next webinar! Attend the free webinar by Kellyn  on  June 13th  and learn how agile best practices and virtualization can help you become better at DevOps. About the Webinar: This session discusses common database challenges and how they can be solved with newer DevOps practices without impacting the DBAs “safe zone”. Development, testing, provisioning, patching, upgrading and managing will become easier with agile tools, virtualization and collaboration. The take-aways from this session are to embrace DevOps basics with a “DBA twist” such as: Develop, Rinse, Repeat Test Until Your Five Year Old Can Do It Human Intervention Creates Human Error- Automate EVERYTHING. How the shorter development cycle build business success. How the DBA can do more with less. Discover the power of virtualization and agile development practices providing more value to even the most senior database expert. We’ll demo differ

Smart Database Architecture for Software Development

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We are incredibly excited to announce that the amazing Toon Koppelaars from Oracle Real World Performance Team is hosting our next webinar: Smart Database Architecture for Software Development. Register at this link. About the Webinar Is the database a processing engine or a persistence layer? In this presentation we'll first go through a bit of history demonstrating how the database has been used in the past 30 years: at times it was a processing engine, and at other times it was just a persistence layer.  Having witnessed many application development projects, we are convinced that the database ought to be used as a processing engine. The persistence layer approach , where all business logic is implemented outside the database has serious drawbacks in the areas of initial application development, ongoing maintenance, and most notably in the area of performance and scalability.   We'll discuss these drawbacks, in particular the last one: We'll debunk once

Arup Nanda on Big Data

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Attend our free webinar and learn from the legendary Oracle DBA Arup Nanda about the Big Data ecosystem and how it compares to Oracle solutions. Register at this link. About the Webinar Big Data is the future of database computing and knowing about it not just a luxury you can avoid anymore; it's necessary for survival and growth. But Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Map/Reduce, Flume - if these terms hit you more often than you have the time to pause and think about them, look no further. Learn about these and more in this informative session on this Big Data components explained from the perspective of an Oracle professional, how they are same or different and how they compare with RAC or parallel query. Register today.