Oracle Database Insider Blog

We've been preparing all year for our largest customer event - Oracle OpenWorld! The database team is descending on San Francisco September 21st and we are excited to see everyone there.

There are lots of database sessions which will be of value and a couple sessions we think are worth everyone's attention.

In addition, we'll have folks at the demo grounds all week. Please be sure to stop by and introduce yourself. We are excited to hear how Oracle Database is integrated with your business.

It's bound to be another fabulous week - so we are just putting the final touches on everything.

See you soon!

Oracle Database Team

As head of database development, Andy Mendelsohn will be hosting the Database stream at Oracle OpenWorld, and will present a general session for database business on Monday, September 22, at 5:15 p.m. He’ll provide an update on the current release of Oracle Database 11g and some of the great new functionality, as well as information about topics such as best practices for upgrades, achieving maximum availability, lower cost of database management in the enterprise, building a secure data management solution, adopting grid computing, effective data warehousing architectures, and information management in the enterprise.

Comment here or e-mail Andy to let him know which database topics you'd like him to cover.

More information on Andy's Session Best Practices for Oracle Database: Information Management in the Enterprise on Monday, September 22, 5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Moscone North, Hall D

All you spatial gurus will know when we say "Location" we're not talking real estate! We want you be aware of the many activities around spatial, location and semantic technology at Oracle OpenWorld.

With Oracle Spatial 11g, an option to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, Oracle has extended its industry leadership position with native 3D data management, comprehensiveWeb services support, new routing engine capabilities, and more.

Oracle and its customers and partners will be showcasing a wide range of location-based enterprise applications that leverage the extensive spatial capabilities of Oracle Locator, a standard feature of every Oracle Database edition.

An exciting continuing theme is the use of Oracle Application Server MapViewer to spatially-enable Oracle’s own applications, including Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, which now benefits customers with improved business insight through visualization and analysis of location data.

Oracle is also unique in offering Semantic Web technology in the database. Oracle Spatial 11g incorporates Semantic Web RDF and OWL capabilities that are being employed by forward-thinking customers in such industries as pharmaceuticals, life sciences, and financial services to analyze relationships among data and integrate information from diverse sources.

Download your “Focus On Spatial” Guide to activities at Oracle OpenWorld
General product information: http://www.oracle.com/database/spatial.html
Technical information: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/index.html

OpenWorld is close and we are certainly looking forward to meeting everyone and hearing your stories about Oracle Database. That said, we've already heard from a customers and partners about how they are using
Oracle Database 11g to run their business. Here are their stories.

One of particular interest is this SQL Server migration to Oracle Database 11g: Saas company upgrades to Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition to power its sales compensation applications.

The Database Insider team is hearing these migrations are a trend and Oracle's growth on Windows seems to confirm that. What's your take?

See you this weekend at OpenWorld!

Over 15 years ago, a very small, dedicated development team inside Oracle led by Roger Bamford (aka the Godfather of RAC) started thinking about grid computing with the genesis of Oracle Real Application Clusters. Back then it wasn't called grid or even Oracle Real Application Clusters - but the concepts were innovative, forward-thinking and set the basis for Oracle Grid computing.

Our developers didn't stop there - they continued with industry thought leadership and now with today's announcement, Oracle Unveils New Cloud Computing Products and Services, Oracle is extending this capacity with Cloud computing products and services for Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment.

Oracle customers can license Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager to run in a cloud computing environment. The first products will be available for Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment. Customers can also use their existing software licenses on Amazon EC2 with no additional license fees.

Oracle also introduced a secure Cloud-based backup solution. Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module, based on Oracle’s premier tape backup management software, Oracle Secure Backup. This product enables customers to use the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as their off-site database backup destination.

Will Oracle's Cloud-based computing products offer reliability and virtually unlimited capacity with no up-front capital expenditure? We think so - what about you?

The Database Insider team likes to hear your stories of how you use Oracle Database. We get excited to hear how our technology continues to benefit your business operations. We've heard of a few newly deployed Oracle Database 11g stories and really wanted to share the news.

More Customers Adopt Oracle Database 11g for their Mission Critical Enterprise Applications

Eli Lilly and Company is utilizing the semantic Web capabilities of Oracle Database 11g to facilitate the integration of data in the company’s pharmaceutical discovery business.

First American, an international property information services provider, has upgraded its land parcel database – ParcelPoint® – to Oracle Database 11g and the Oracle Spatial option to better integrate their business with their large volumes of spatial data.

Intermap Technologies, a digital map company, stores, manages and secures its data using Oracle Database 11g and the Oracle Spatial option. Intermap’s multi-terabyte database is protected using Oracle Active Data Guard option that replicates transactions to a mirrored system at their disaster recovery site.

Novartis is using the new DICOM data type in Oracle Database 11g as part of a solution for managing a centralized, standardized repository of medical image data during clinical trials to reduce costs, and enable data sharing and collaboration.

We are looking forward to talking with each of you at OpenWorld through our presentations, at your presentations, on the demoground, and all the events this week. If you weren't able to attend the conference, or have somehow missed us in the massive crowds - we'd still like to hear your story.

The energy at this year's OpenWorld is electric! With 43,000 attendees, it's a bit overwhelming to navigate the conference (even for us Ora*Emps!). There are 48 Oracle-led database sessions today. If you'd like some guidance there are a couple which really shouldn't be missed live!

11:30 - 12:30pm: Session S298741 titled Oracle Database 11g: Next-Generation Performance and Scalability at Moscone South Rm 103

1:00- 2:00pm: Session S298744 titled Oracle Grid Computing 2.0: A Preview at Moscone South Rm 306

5:30-6:30pm: Session S301419 titled Best Practices for Oracle Database: Information Management in Moscone North Hall D

Rich is a great contributor to the Oracle Database Insider - his Monday session is bound to be SRO. It's at 2:30pm today in Moscone South Rm 308

This session focuses on which new features of Oracle Database 11g should be investigated for use by managers. It includes simple discussions of why and when to use new features such as Memory Target, Partition Advisor, Security Enhancements, Read-Only Tables, DDL Lock Timeout, Invisible Index, Virtual Column, Automatic Diagnostics Repository, SQL Plan Baselines, Result Cache Database Replay, SQL Repair Advisor, ADDM Enhancements, Interval Partitioning, and Partition Compression.

Rich's Podcast on Oracle Database 11g

The Database Insider team likes to hear your stories of how you use Oracle Database. We get excited to hear how our technology continues to benefit your business operations. We've heard of lots of businesses successfully deploying Oracle Database 11g and really wanted to hear more.

We know there are lots of people at OpenWorld, but our goal is to chat with you at our presentations, at your presentations, on the demoground, and all the events this week. We want to hear YOUR story.

If you weren't able to attend the conference, or have somehow missed us in the massive crowds - we'd still like to hear your story.

I stopped by the OpenWorld Bookstore on Monday and found that two database titles are flying off the shelves faster than anything else: Oracle Database 10g Performance Tuning by Rich Niemiec and Pro Oracle Application Express by Scott Spendolini and John Scott. Don't believe me, just ask Alex the bookstore guy:



Charles and Chuck's keynote about the latest release of Oracle got me thinking about all the database versions we've released.

I wondered around and asked a few folks Which version did you start using Oracle Database? here's some of their answers.

Oracle v6 with transaction process option
Oracle v5 on VAX (wow! this guy's been around Oracle products a while!)
Oracle8i
Oracle Database 10g

I also asked them What feature(s) do you think are the stalwarths of Oracle Database?
the -abilities (availability, portability, compatibility)
RLL
performance
RAC
Security

What's your story?

wow. there are so many cool database sessions going on at OpenWorld, it's impossible to get to them all.

Chances are you missed a couple sessions; but good news! I've found a spot where they are archived for viewing - through the OnDemand portal.

Here's where you can view the presentation, listen to the audio via mp3 file, or launch an audio replay of the presentation.

If you've subscribed to the OnDemand option for OpenWorld - you'll have access to this area.
I'll figure out how to find the presentations for those not subscribed!

The signs around Moscone say today is the day for X.

Oracle Senior Vice President of database development, Andy Mendelsohn, gives a teaser.

Be sure to listen to Larry Ellison's keynote today at 2:30pm PT. It'll be webcast live all around Moscone because the Hall will be filled. But try to get a seat early - his keynotes are ALWAYS electric!

The database team has been diligently working on X, we are so exited today is the day our hard efforts are finally shared with you!

See you there!

Extreme Performance. Unlimited Scalability. Enterprise Ready.

In his keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the next evolution of database technology. With the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine, Oracle is revolutionizing high performance data warehousing. Customers are experiencing performance boosts of 10x or more over their current Oracle data warehouses.

LEARN MORE
Press Release: Oracle Introduces The HP Oracle Database Machine: Delivering 10x Faster Performance Than Current Oracle Data Warehouses
Oracle.com: Oracle Exadata

Wow. Response to the Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server is amazing!

Want to know the inside story on this announcement?

Industry analyst Dana Gardner did and interviewed Rich Palmer, HP's director of technology and strategy for the industry standard servers group and Willie Hardie, Oracle's vice president of Database Marketing

Their podcast gives more insight, more detail, more understanding and of course - the Insider Scoop on this new exciting announcement.