Your Mission Critical Database Program at OCW 2023

Oracle Real Application Clusters 23c—New Features and Best Practices [LRN3013]

Join Oracle development experts in discussing the latest Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 23c features. Learn about the inner workings of these functions and get tips and tricks on how to apply these new capabilities to real-world use cases. Learn from other customers how to optimize elastic scalability and high availability in different environments. We cover features introduced with Oracle RAC 21c and later, including Smart Connection Rebalancing, improved performance, and brownout time reduction.

8:30 am – 9:15 am; Room: “Murano 3204” (The Venetian, Level 3)

Oracle MAA: Proven Over Years, Evolved for Oracle Database 23c [LRN1037]

Join Oracle development experts in discussing how Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) ensures application and database resiliency via a combination of technology, best practices, and automation across both on-premises and the cloud. Learn how Oracle MAA has evolved in Oracle Database 23c and within the various Oracle Cloud Database Services to provide even better protection against downtime and data loss. Hear directly from customers using Oracle MAA on how they ensure resilience, availability, and data protection for their critical applications.

11:30 am – 12:15 pm; Room: “Murano 3305” (The Venetian, Level 3)

How to Migrate to Full Stack Disaster Recovery with Zero Downtime [LRN3014]

Modern application architectures have become increasingly complex, making disaster recovery (DR) for the entire stack challenging to set up and maintain. At the same time, businesses are looking to modernize their data centers by moving workloads into the cloud. Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) addresses the last-mile issue of this paradigm shift by automating Oracle Database migrations into Oracle Cloud. At the same time, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Full Stack Disaster Recovery provides a comprehensive solution that simplifies DR operations, reduces the risk of errors, and improves recovery times. Get the latest updates on ZDM and to see how customers have harnessed the power of both solutions.

12:45 pm – 1:30 pm; Room: “Lido 3104” (The Venetian, Level 3)

Protect Your Data with Oracle Active Data Guard [HOL2251]

NOTE: Bring your laptop to follow along for the best hands-on experience. Laptops are not provided.
This hands-on lab lets you configure Oracle Active Data Guard and explore features such as switchover, failover, automatic block recovery, and data manipulation language (DML) redirection.

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm; Room: “San Polo 3503” (The Venetian, Level 3)

Meet the team

Anil Nair / Ian Cookson / Ricardo Gonzalez / Sinan Petrus Toma
Glen Hawkins / Ludovico Caldara / Philippe Fierens / Suraj Ramesh
Greg King / Lawrence To / Markus Michalewicz / and more 

at one of our demo booths during Welcome Reception:

MAA with Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and Full Stack DR

Oracle Database Upgrades and Migrations to Oracle Cloud

Meet the team at one of our demo booths:

MAA with Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and Full Stack DR

Oracle Database Upgrades and Migrations to Oracle Cloud

Hot-Rolling Application Upgrades Without Downtime [HOL2617]

NOTE: Bring your laptop to follow along for the best hands-on experience. Laptops are not provided.
This hands-on lab covers evolving your applications built on top of Oracle Database entirely online using features like Oracle Database Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) and Online Redefinition—providing the ability to do online application upgrades without any downtime. 

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm; Room: “San Polo 3406” (The Venetian, Level 3)

Oracle Database 23c Single Server Rolling Database Maintenance Tips and Tricks [LRN3259]

Planned maintenance has become the number one reason for downtime on-premises and in the cloud, due to security requirements and regular functional updates. Rolling maintenance has long been the answer to reducing maintenance-related downtime, but until now it has required either an auxiliary database or a multinode cluster such as Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). Learn how, on a single server, Oracle Database 23c provides the same rolling maintenance benefits of a multinode cluster. Get the latest tips and tricks on how to use Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning to perform out-of-place updates in an automated fashion, and how application continuity can help perform rolling upgrades transparent to the application.

4:00pm – 4:45 pm; Room: “Lido 3001a” (The Venetian, Level 3)

Disaster Recovery and Availability with Oracle Data Guard 23c [LRN3012]

Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Active Data Guard are well known for their best-in-class data protection, and developers can use many of their features to achieve superior database scalability, availability, and flexibility. Learn how to architect and develop your applications to make the most out of real-time query for scalability, Application Continuity and Fast-Start Failover for availability, and Flashback technologies for time travel capabilities. Hear about improvements in Oracle Database 23c for these technologies and how customers use them in their mission-critical environments.

5:15 pm – 6:00 pm; Room: “Ballrom J” (The Venetian, Level 2)

Automate Disaster Recovery on OCI using Full Stack Disaster Recovery [HOL2520]

NOTE: Bring your laptop to follow along for the best hands-on experience. Laptops are not provided.

Want to automate disaster recovery (DR) operations for your applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)? We show how easy it is to configure and execute cross-regional recovery for a non-Oracle web application using Full Stack Disaster Recovery in OCI.

8:30 am – 10:00 am; Room: “San Polo 3403” (The Venetian, Level 3)

Simplify Your Migration of Databases to the Cloud [LRN2361]

Learn how to simplify your database migration to Oracle Cloud. Whether you’re migrating a single database or planning to move dozens or hundreds, we have the tools and features to help. Discover how the Oracle Cloud Learn how to simplify your database migration to Oracle Cloud. Whether you’re migrating a single database or planning to move dozens or hundreds, we have the tools and features to help. Discover how the Cloud Migration Advisor (CMA) recommends the best migration approach, how Database Migration Service (DMS) automates the migration process, and how Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) orchestrates the move of multiple databases. See demos of these free tools and learn how other customers have completed their migrations in record time.

12:30 pm – 1:15 pm; Room: “Bellini 2006” (The Venetian, Level 2)

Set Up Your Applications on Oracle RAC and Let Them Failover Seamlessly [HOL2319]

NOTE: Bring your laptop to follow along for the best hands-on experience. Laptops are not provided.
This hands-on lab shows how to configure application failover capabilities for a sample app. We also inject failures to test how the app is able to seamlessly failover without any specific changes.

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm; Room: “San Polo 3501” (The Venetian, Level 3)

Meet the team at one of our demo booths before the curtain closes:

MAA with Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and Full Stack DR

Oracle Database Upgrades and Migrations to Oracle Cloud

Virtual Machine and Database Fleet Migration and Automation Tooling for OCI [LRN4160]

A successful migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) enables businesses to prevent interruptions to data availability, maximize return on investment, avoid unplanned expenditures, and increase stakeholder trust. Hear how Oracle has focused its efforts to make sure your migration is a success with Migrate 360 and Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM). Migrate 360 assesses your fleet, assigns the appropriate migration methods, then provides insights into sizing, scheduling, and consolidation of databases and virtual machines (VMs). The integration of Migrate 360 with ZDM’s logical and physical workflows provides greater cost savings, simplicity, reduced risk, real-time reporting, and the highest level of automation in the industry.

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm; Room: “Murano 3306” (The Venetian, Level 3)