Oracle Database PodCasts

Michelle Malcher talks about the 2014 IOUG Enterprise Data Security Survey Report and confirms that we need DBA superheroes with the security knowledge to protect our organizations.

Epsilon addresses their customer's sensitive application data requirements in production, development, and test databases, using Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting.

The insurance industry maintains and processes a lot of sensitive data including Social Security, payment card, and driver's license numbers. Infinity secures this data with Oracle Advanced Security and addresses PCI DSS, SOX, and GLBA requirements.

Brian Pawlik discusses Pulte Group's successful adoption of Oracle Multitenant with Oracle's Patrick Wheeler. Pulte's savings are $1.7 million in capital expenses and three man-months in operating expenses over the first year. Database provisioning is down from 16 hours to 90 minutes. Performance on Exadata is stunning. Migration was flawless and support from Oracle ACS was outstanding.

Nagesh Battula from the Oracle Database product management team provides an overview of Global Data Services, a revolutionary new high availability technology introduced with Oracle Database 12c. Hear how Global Data Services helps Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate customers improve availability, performance and ROI with automated workload balancing, routing and service high-availability for geographically distributed, replicated Oracle databases.

MD Anderson Cancer Center, part of The University of Texas, is a premier cancer research center whose goal is to eliminate cancer through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research, and education. There is greater awareness that improving patient care and delivering innovating cancer treatment solutions requires bringing together phenotypic data (remove) and genotypic data and applying powerful bioinformatics to it. Using Oracle Exadata Database Machine for its data warehousing, data integration, and business intelligence needs, MD Anderson delivers real-time insights to healthcare practitioners while also lowering data latencies.

Database administrator Chris Maxwell explains how the City of Medicine Hat uses Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall to protect their billing system web application and Microsoft SQL Server database.

Join Erik Peterson General Manager of the Mexico Development Center as he discusses the skills needed to succeed as a software engineer. Erik provides valuable insight into the daily projects of software developers as well as what software developers at Oracle do for fun.

Join Dave Segleau Director, Product Management, as he provides an overview of the Berkeley Database, how it integrates with the rest of the Oracle Database products, and why it is important.

In this podcast learn about the origins and importance of NoSQL with Dave Segleau Director of Product Management for NoSQL.

NRMA Applications Support Manager Ashok Sharma discusses NRMA's experience deploying Oracle Database Appliance to support a business critical application. Hear how NRMA benefited from Oracle Database Appliance integration of software, servers, storage and networking to deliver higher performance at lower cost in a high availability configuration. Based on this success NRMA is consolidating additional applications on Oracle Database Appliance.

Listen to David Peake as he provides an in-depth lecture on Oracle Applications Express. The Oracle Application Express is a useful tool to create applications with SQL and PL/SQL.

Big Data is very important in today's technology landscape. Join Mark Hornick as gives an insightful overview of Oracle's R Technologies.

Securing data has become a hot topic in today's day and age. Listen to Tyra Crockett and Roxana Bradescu as they discuss the latest in the exciting field of database security.

Vaishnavi Sashikanth, Vice-President of Oracle Advanced Analytics Development, speaks with Mark Hornick and Tom Plunkett, authors of the recent book, "Using R to Unlock the Value of Big Data" regarding their motivations for writing the book, the breadth of topics it covers, and how organizations can benefit from using R.

Yahoo improves performance and increases bandwidth to legacy storage with Oracle Direct NFS.

Listen to Guido van de Zweerde, Senior DBA from University Twente's ICT Service Center describe how they consolidated their database server environment and improved high availability with Oracle Database Appliance.

Danny Bryant, IT Manager at the City of Atlanta, joins host Markus Weber. This local administration uses many of Oracle products and solutions to accomplish their goals to serve their citizens. Danny and his team use the free SQL Developer tool heavily, and have been evaluating early versions of the brand new SQL Developer 4.0 for a while. Danny shares his great experiences in this podcast.

Host Markus Weber is joined by Jeff Smith (thatjeffsmith.com), Principal Product Manager for SQL Developer. Jeff explains how the free SQL Developer now is so much more than a developer tool, but also a tool for DBAs and database migrations. They discuss a lot of content around what's new in release SQL Developer 4.0.

Listen to Milt Simonds of AmeriSource Bergen describe how Oracle Advanced Compression reduced their storage footprint in their SAP environment by 60% with no impact on performance while significantly lowering storage management costs for an ROI between 6 to 9 months.