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2017 Is [Almost] a Wrap: Sample Code, Ruminations, & Portents for 2018

Posted on by jim.czuprynski

2017 has been an incredibly busy year! Besides speaking at half a dozen different Regional Oracle User Groups this year, I co-authored two new books, experimented in depth with Oracle Public Cloud, and helped my latest employer, ViON Corporation, build out their Oracle Gold partnership from the ground up, one customer at a time. It’s been an exhilarating experience for me, but for you, it means access to some great collateral and code:

  • I’ve added all three of my most popular presentations as PowerPoint slide shows for download. Many folks have asked me for the sample code in the two most technical presentations on Oracle 12cR2 Database In-Memory feature explorations and Analytic views. Just in case you missed out on seeing me present at one of my numerous conference engagements this past year, I hope these presentations help you with your experimentation.
  •  I’ve also added a link to all of the code examples for my most recent book, PDB Me to Oracle Cloud Pocket Solutions Guide: A Lazy DBA’s Guide to Mastering Multitenant Features on Oracle Cloud, that I co-authored with good friend and fellow Oracle ACE Director Charles Kim from Viscosity NA. It’s a great little handbook that explores some of the neatest features of Oracle 12cR2 multitenancy, including the ability to move a PDB between different CDBs without ever facing any application downtime. Oh, and by the way – it’s all done in the Oracle Public Cloud!
  • Check out my most recent article on IOUG SELECT that include my impressions from Oracle OpenWorld 2017. I review what Larry Ellison’s keynotes revealed for the future of Oracle and what those revelations most likely mean for the role of Oracle DBA in the coming months and years.
  • Finally, Oracle Technology Network just published my latest article that explores the unique advantages of leveraging Oracle Public Cloud’s Exadata Express features for a robust, automatic, and powerful Cloud-based platform, especially for experimenting with Oracle 12cR2 Database In-Memory features at a reasonable cost before investing in it for your on-premises databases.

Enjoy, my colleagues! Here’s to a 2018 that’s full of surprises. Only good ones!

SANGAM17: India, Here I Come At Last

Posted on by jim.czuprynski

At the request of my colleagues in India – especially the ever-persistent Oracle ACE Director Sai Janakiram – I have at last found a window of time during which I can attend the annual SANGAM17 event in Hyderabad. (It helped that Sai apparently recruited our fellow ACE Director Bjoern Rost to call me out as a wimp for not being willing to travel halfway around the world 24+ hours to India and to provide some much-needed mentoring for our younger colleagues there. Hint: Don’t ever call a guy from Chicago a wimp.)

I’ll be presenting three of my favorite topics, plus a brand-new one tailored specifically for my brother and sister Oracle colleagues in India:

DBA 2.0 Is Dead. Long Live DBA 3.0!

Cloud. DevOps. Agile. Big Data. 12cR2. So much to worry about if you’re an Oracle DBA who hasn’t made the transition from DBA 2.0 to DBA 3.0! Let me help you make the transition with a brief presentation – no code samples, just my viewpoints! – about the the future history of the DBA role in the USA.

Oracle 12cR2 Database In-Memory: Adventures with SwingBench TPC-DS

I’ll discuss and demonstrate what I’ve discovered about several aspects of Oracle Database 12cR2’s newest Database In-Memory features, including In-Memory Expressions, ILM ADO Policies for In-Memory Objects, and improvements to In-Memory Joins and In-Memory Filtering.

Stop Guessing, Start Analyzing: New Analytic View Features in Oracle Database 12cR2

I’ll discuss and demonstrate how to leverage the unique features of Analytic Views in 12cR2 that can save an Oracle DBA and application developers from writing inordinately complex code to solve multi-dimensional analytic queries.

Want to Be Successful In IT? Follow the PRIYA Principle.

As SANGAM17 draws to a close, I’ll be speaking at some length about the essential qualities of a true Information Technology professional. I’m honored to have a chance to present my observations from my 35+ years in IT and explain what I believe you’ll need to do to stay ahead of the curve in the coming years as the demand for professional resources increases.