Announcement: Australia/NZ “Let’s Talk Database” Events October 2019 !!

I’ve very excited to announce the next series of Oracle “Let’s Talk Database” events to be run throughout Australia and New Zealand in October 2019.

I’ll be discussing two exciting topics this series, “Oracle Database 19c New Features” and “Oracle Exadata X8“. As always, these sessions run between 9am-1pm, include a networking lunch and are free, but you MUST register to attend.

Dates, locations and registration links are as follows (Note the Sydney location is NOT the Oracle office in North Ryde):

Canberra:     22 October – Registration Link (Oracle Canberra Office)

Sydney:       23 October – Registration Link (Stone and Chalk, York St)

Melbourne: 24 October – Registration Link (Oracle Melbourne Office)

Brisbane:     29 October – Registration Link (Oracle Brisbane Office)

Auckland:    30 October – Registration Link (Level 13, AMP Centre, 29 Customs Street West)

Wellington: 31 October – Registration Link (Oracle Wellington Office)

 

Session details as follows:

“Oracle Database 19c New Features”

The latest Oracle Database Release 19c has introduced many exciting new features and enhanced capabilities that will be of much interest to both DBAs and Developers. This session will discuss in some detail a number of these new features with practical examples on how they can assist Oracle professionals maximize the benefits of the Oracle Database, especially in relation to Oracle Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems deployments. New features discussed include Hybrid Table Partitions, Active Standby DML Redirect, Real Time Statistics, High-Frequency Automatic Optimizer Statistics Collection, SQL Quarantine,  new JSON Enhancements, DISTINCT option for LISTAGG aggregate and the most exciting new feature for some time, Automatic Indexing.

 

“Oracle Exadata X8”

The Oracle Exadata X8 Database Machine is the latest release in Oracle’s engineered systems platform designed specifically to deliver dramatically better performance, cost effectiveness, and availability for Oracle databases. This session will discuss various expanded and new capabilities introduced with Oracle Exadata X8 such as the new Exadata Extended Storage server, automated CPU, Memory and Network monitoring, advanced intrusion detection and Docker support. The session also examines why the Exadata Platform is so critical for the Autonomous Database Cloud Services and the unique Oracle Database19c capabilities such as Memoptimized Rowstore, Automatic Indexing, Real-Time Statistics and SQL Quarantine that are supported on Exadata.

 

So plenty of exciting Oracle database stuff to discuss. Hope to catch you at one of these events !!