Database Content Area March/April 2016 Session Abstracts

Session Title

Session Abstract Database Application Development Track

Database Community Update /

Session Overview By Laura
Presentation by OTN Community Manager --features highlights from VTS agenda
Ramsey, OTN Database

Community Manager
Start Developing with Oracle
Database Cloud By Brian
Spendolini, Senior Principal
Product Manager, Oracle
Database Cloud Services

In this session, youll get hands-on experience with Oracle Database Cloud. Learn how to
create a cloud database from scratch with a few clicks of the mouse, then change access
rules with the compute console enabling web, monitoring, and command-line entry. Oracle
Database Cloud then scales up in real time adding memory and CPU. Finally, youll
understand the various application development, database monitoring, and administration
console capabilities available via web access.

Managing JSON Documents

natively with the Oracle
Database
By Mark Drake, Oracle Senior
Product Manager

JSON as a data exchange format has become more and more popular over the last years.
With Oracle 12c you can now handle JSON documents natively within the Database. We
will show you what JSON looks like, how you can store it using Oracles open source
collection API and how to leverage the power of SQL over those documents.

Relational to JSON with

Node.js
By Dan McGhan, Oracle
Developer Advocate

For many applications, the relational model will be the optimal format to store data. But
these days, front-end developers want their data in JSON format. Cant we have our cake
and eat it too? With Node.js this is no problem! In this session, attendees will get an
overview of how the Oracle Database driver for Node.js can be used to convert data to and
from the relational model and JSON. In addition to the basics, well explore some gotchas
and interesting use cases, such as working with hierarchical data.

Session Title

Session Abstract for Oracle DB12c Performance Track

The Optimizer's complexity is

great, but...By Liron Amitzi,
Oracle Ace Director Liron Amitzi presents an entertaining session about appreciating the
Oracle ACE and Senior
Oracle Optimizer; exploring the stability of plans and examining new features that ruin your
Consultant for DBAces, Brillix system performance, just when you get it tuned just right.
Ltd
JMS Sharded Queues for
Better Performance

JMS Sharded Queues provide significant improvements in performance, manageability and

scalability in Oracle Database 12c, especially for high-concurrency architectures including
Oracle Exadata Database Machines and Oracle RAC. This session would present the
By Alan Downing, Senior
Director, Streams Development, architecture and performance of JMS sharded queues and provide guidelines of when and
how to use them.
Oracle

SQL Tuning without Trying
By Arup Nanda, Oracle ACE
Director
Session Title

Oracle ACE Director Arup Nanda presents best practices for Performance Tuning in Oracle
Database 12c. In this session, learn about the SQL Tuning Advisor feature in Oracle
Database, and how to use it effectively and interpret the results for superior performance in
the context of the real world presented by a real-life DBA.
Session Abstract MySQL Track

Improve Performance by 3x
with MySQL 5.7
By Geir Hydalsvik
Sr. Software Development
Director, Oracle

MySQL 5.7 is an exciting new version of the worlds most popular open source database
that is 3x faster than MySQL 5.6 and offers improved manageability & security. Join this
session to learn about the key MySQL 5.7 enhancements including native JSON support,
InnoDB performance and scalability improvements, replication enhancements, performance
schema, the MySQL SYS schema, security, GIS, optimizer improvements and more.

Analyze & Tune MySQL

Queries for Better
Performance
By ystein Grvlen, Senior
Principal Software Engineer,
Oracle

Performance of SQL queries plays a big role in application performance. If some queries
execute slowly, these queries or the database schema may need tuning. This session
covers how the MySQL optimizer chooses a specific plan to execute SQL queries. We will
show you how to use tools such as EXPLAIN (including the JSON-based output) and
Optimizer Trace to analyze query plans. We will also review how the Visual Explain
functionality available in MySQL Workbench helps us visualize these plans. The
presentation will contain several examples of how to take advantage of the query analysis
to improve performance of MySQL queries.

Oracle Enterprise Manager for

MySQL Database: Discover
the New Features By Carlos
Proal Aguilar, Principal Software
Developer, Oracle

This session provides an overview of how to use the latest release of Oracle Enterprise
Manager for MySQL Database to monitor database connections, index usage, replication
status, compliance scores, and other key configuration and performance metrics.