Oracle Database PodCasts

Bill Binko discusses how Oracle In-Memory Database Cache allows them to cut query response times by 10x, while providing the scalability and availability benefits that their customers require.

Oracle Corporation runs a centralized eBusiness Suite system on Oracle Database 11g for all its employees around the globe. This clustered Global Single Instance (GSI) has scaled seamlessly with many acquisitions over the years, doubling the number of employees since 2001 and supporting around 100,000 employees today, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week around the world. Join us to hear from Raji Mani, IT Director for Oracle's PDIT Group, on how Oracle Database 11g and Advanced Compression is helping to save big on storage costs.

Ian "Fresh" Burns, design coordinator for the trimaran of BMW ORACLE Racing, discusses how technology helped bring back the America's Cup.

In this podcast, learn how Bentley Systems uses Oracle Spatial 11g in its Map and PowerMap products to manage 3D data in city government and other customer environments. Bentley's products are widely used by customers such as City of Prague that manage large Oracle Spatial databases for GIS and related applications including urban planning, city modeling and infrastructure management.

Customers can increase developer productivity and simplify application development cycles using Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 - the latest release of the popular development and migration tool that comes with every Oracle Database. This latest release introduces two new key capabilities - PL/SQL Unit Testing and Data Modeler Viewer - in addition to a slew of other enhancements. Sue Harper, the Oracle product manager for SQL Developer, discusses these new features.

Jim Shumway and Angelo Romano discuss why Oracle Real Application Clusters was the ideal platform to scale the State of Connecticut's Core-CT systems for all their employees and agencies.

Oracle ACE Director and co-author of the "Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook" - Charles Kim - discusses best practices and experiences using Oracle Data Guard.

Oracle implementation expert Steven Feldman discusses how Exor - the world's leading provider of highways software - uses Oracle Application Express and Oracle Spatial to deliver integrated road management systems.

After experiencing unacceptable performance issues during registration periods, Georgian College upgraded their Peoplesoft applications to Linux servers in conjunction with Oracle Database 11g and RAC and ASM technologies. The result was an immediate performance boost along with the high availability and scalability needed to manage a growing student body. Join us to hear from their CIO.Senior DBA.

Agencia Gubernamental de Control, Buenos Aires City Government migrates to Oracle Database 11g to support operations of disparate city departments. Today, around 250,000 data activities are managed by the Sistema de Habilitaciones Comerciales (Commerce Enablement System) to promote and create new business entities in Buenos Aires. Hear from the manager of IT systems on what’s working.

M-Tel is the GSM market leader in Bulgaria and one of the most successful mobile operators in Europe. Listen to Mihail Kalachev, Senior DBA at M-Tel discuss how M-Tel has improved query performance by up to 72x with the Oracle Exadata Storage.

Vojin Janjic, TDEC Division of Water Pollution Control (WPC), and David Brewer, TDEC Information Systems, discuss how they were able to save nearly $1 million using Oracle Application Express.

Marie-Anne Neimat (Vice President, Oracle Embedded Database Technologies Group) and Gregory Burd (Senior Product Manager, Oracle Berkeley DB) review the new features of Oracle Berkeley DB version 4.8. This release of Berkeley DB delivers significant performance and multi-processor scalability improvements, table partitioning, a new C# API, C++ standard template library (STL) integration and improved failure handling for multi-threaded applications. These features enhance and extend Berkeley DB in the embedded database market where a zero-administration, small-footprint, transactional database engine is the right choice for fast, local, reliable persistence of unstructured data.

Cost efficiency is of paramount concern to EMC. Oracle Database 11g enabled EMC to optimize energy efficiency as well as data center resources, which have translated to $3 million in savings to date. Join us to hear how they have been able to do this and what’s next for EMC.

Despite the unrelenting stream of data breaches reported by companies and public sector organizations, the uncertain economic climate has put a damper on data security budgets, and organizations have made little progress safeguarding their data according to the results of the new 2009 IOUG Data Security Report just completed in September. In this podcast, Ian Abramson, president of the IOUG provides his perspectives on the study and the industry-wide need for strengthening data security.