Database Development

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook – Oracle Edition

All Things Oracle on 12 June 2013 with 0 comments

Download your free copy of TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook – Oracle Edition and use the recipes to work better, faster, and do things you never knew you could do with SVN. If you’re new to source control, this book provides a concise guide to getting the most out of Subversion. Both TortoiseSVN and Subversion have very good reference books available… Continue Reading →

Performance is a Feature: Here is the Specification

Cary Millsap on 11 June 2013 with 0 comments

 Weds July 31st, 2013  Central Europe: 17:00 UK: 16:00 East USA: 11.00 Central USA: 10.00 Pacific USA: 08.00 Register now To many people who build and run software, “performance” is a side-effect, an afterthought of designing and building “proper” features like buttons that book orders and reports that explain profitability. But great performance at scale doesn’t happen by accident. The first step to great… Continue Reading →

Topics in Database Version Control

Dominic Delmolino on 11 June 2013 with 0 comments

 Tues July 2nd, 2013  Central Europe: 17:00 UK: 16:00 East USA: 11.00 Central USA: 10.00 Pacific USA: 08.00 Register now In this webinar, database development expert Dominic Delmolino discusses some of the nuances of database version control in today’s distributed development environments. Topics will include the pros and cons of personal vs. centralized development databases and how Oracle 12c may enable the best of… Continue Reading →

Put your Oracle Database in Source Control

All Things Oracle on 10 June 2013 with 1 comments

The first time you consider it, it may seem a strange idea to put a database into source control but, on reflection, it makes sense. The reason to do so is the same reason that you put anything else in source control: to be able to revert to previous releases with minimal effort. Imagine that, after you release version 1.0… Continue Reading →

Oracle Database Replay for your Workload Test

Satishbabu Gunukula on 30 May 2013 with 7 comments

Database replay was introduced in Oracle 11g R1, and it allows you to capture workloads on a Production system and replay them in your Development or test environments while maintaining the unique characteristics of the workload. This enables the user to test a variety of system changes such as hardware/software migration, operating system/ database upgrade, patches, database config changes etc…. Continue Reading →

Continuous Integration with Jenkins and Red Gate Oracle Tools

Neil Anderson on 28 May 2013 with 0 comments

 Weds June 19th, 2013  Central Europe: 17:00 UK: 16:00 East USA: 11.00 Central USA: 10.00 Pacific USA: 08.00 Register now Continuous integration is not just for application developers. Database code is still code, so the considerable benefits of continuous integration are also available to Oracle database developers. All you need are the right tools. This session will look at how to setup continuous integration… Continue Reading →

End to End Metrics: Building a performance bridge between the Developer and the DBA

Lasse Jenssen on 16 May 2013 with 0 comments

Watch video End-to-end metrics bridge the gap between the developer and the DBA, the Developer and Oracle, and the DBA and the application. Most applications today are n-tiers using a connection pool on the application tier, which makes them very hard to trace. With a little bit of collaboration between developers and DBAs, tracing can be turned on very easily… Continue Reading →

Built-in Performance Monitoring in Oracle and SQL Server

Jonathan Lewis on 16 May 2013 with 0 comments

  Watch now While the primary focus of both Oracle and SQL Server is on relational database management, there are a number of tools that come with each software package that are focused around monitoring and investigating the performance of the servers. These monitoring tools vary wildly between the two platforms, yet still have a lot in common because of… Continue Reading →

Oracle Database 12c and APEX

Dimitri Gielis on 16 May 2013 with 0 comments

The below content is based on a David Peake‘s presentation at OOW 2012 and APEX World 2013. As the Oracle Database 12c is not out yet at the time of writing, note that things might be different in the final product. The Oracle Database 12c is a major release in Oracle history, as it contains a complete redesign of the underlying architecture. Two… Continue Reading →

Hacking the Oracle Cloud

Morten Egan on 22 April 2013 with 2 comments

 Weds August 14th, 2013  Central Europe: 17:00 UK: 16:00 East USA: 11.00 Central USA: 10.00 Pacific USA: 08.00 Register now In this webinar, Morten Egan will take a look at how to overcome some of the limitations of the Oracle Cloud – including how to stretch your storage to its full potential. Can we circumvent the communication limits, since we do not have sqlnet,… Continue Reading →