What are the major technical enhancements of the new releases of Oracle?
How can these new features be applied to their organizations to improve the functionality and speed of their systems?
How do these Oracle features relate to e-commerce, data warehousing, and very large databases?
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Application Development
Business Applications
Data Management
IT Management
Operating Systems
eBusiness
According to independent Oracle database expert Donald Burleson, this powerful and comprehensive software platform now offers a bewildering array of rich and complex new features. But becoming familiar with its new capabilities can be a daunting task. This presentation is indispensable for the IT manager who needs to know how to separate marketing hype from reality to exploit the new features of Oracle 8i and 9i. In this session, Burleson covers all of the major technical enhancements of the new releases of Oracle. He provides viewers with a high-level understanding of how these new features can be applied to their organizations to improve the functionality and speed of their systems. By watching this program, viewers will gain in-depth technical knowledge of the new Oracle features and how they relate to e-commerce, data warehousing, and very large databases.
Viewers of the CD, Internet or intranet versions have access to Web links such as: 'Analyzing Oracle's Database Clustering Innovation,' an article on how technology in the Oracle 9i database management system is aimed at e-commerce Web sites; 'Custom Fit,' an article on how personalization can improve productivity and usability in portals while providing key marketing advantages; 'Oracle FAQ,' a site with numerous links; 'Oracle Security, Backup and Recovery, Performance Tuning'; 'Oracle: Powered by XML and Java,' with focus on advantages of storing XML in an Oracle8i database; 'Real-Time Recommendation Engine Architecture: A Feature in the Oracle Personalization Software'; and 'What is Your Oracle SQL Optimizer Philosophy?,' an article by the presenter Donald Burleson on making very important decisions about your philosophy regarding SQL tuning. White papers include: 'XML: The Foundation for the Future,' by Mike Hogan; and RFC 2138, on 'Remote Authentication Dial In User Service.'
PROGRAM TOPICS:
TRACK DESCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
AGENDA
AN INTRODUCTION TO ORACLE DATABASE SOFTWARE
The Focus of the Oracle8i Release
NEW FEATURES OF ORACLE8i
Optimizer Plan Stability
Cursor_Sharing: A New Initialization Parameter
Index-Organized Tables
Object-Oriented Extensions
The Oracle WebDB Product Tool
The Oracle's New XML Interfaces
The Oracle Internet File System
The Oracle interMedia Product
The Oracle's ConText Product
Oracle XML Solutions
Oracle Enters the Java Marketspace
Data Warehouses and Very Large Databases
Oracle's Materialized Views Feature
Transportable Tablespaces and Locally Managed Tablespaces
The Oracle Express Product
RADUIS: A Client/Server Security Protocol
NEW FEATURES OF ORACLE9i
In-Place Table Reorganization
Recovery From Online Redo Logs
Oracle Support for Databases With Multiple Block Sizes
The SGA: Dynamic System Global Area
The Oracle9i Self-Tuning Database
Oracle9i Data Warehouse Features
Oracle9i SQL Advanced Grouping Functions
Oracle9i OLAP: Extract Transform and Load – ETL
Oracle9i Personalization Technology Feature: The Recommendation Engine
The Improved Oracle Parallel Server – OPS
Java and XML Support Enhancements
Oracle9i Data Mining Tools
THE IMPACT ON IT STAFFING AND OPERATIONS
Approaches to the DBA Dilemma: Growing Your Own DBA
Approaches to the DBA Dilemma: Sponsoring a Foreign Professional
Approaches to the DBA Dilemma: Remote DBA Services
Training Your Oracle DBAs in New Concepts and Languages
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