Agenda

4:00 p.m. doors open

4:15 p.m. first presentation

5:15 p.m second presentation

6:00 p.m. networking drinks

Presentations

THE AUTONOMOUS DATABASE – WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR DBAS AND EVERYONE ELSE

What does Autonomous mean to your organization and and its goals? Perhaps more importantly, what does an Autonomous future mean for DBAs. This session will walk through the Autonomous database offering, and how to configure it for use within your organization. We’ll also talk about the features and restrictions that are imposed, and most importantly – does it mean all DBA’s are out of a job?

ORACLE 12.2/18C/19C – THE LATEST AND GREATEST!

Whilst most fanfare on 12.2/18c is about cloud-first, sharding, and autonomous database, there is a multitude of other enhancements that DBAs and Developers would benefit from immediately. This session focuses on the lesser known but still critical new features and improvements in 12.2/18c. And yes, we’ll even throw some 19c into the mix as well!

Bio

Connor McDonald is a former Oracle Ace Director, now SQL Advocate for Oracle, and over the past 18 years, has worked with systems in Australia, the UK, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and the United States. He has co-authored three books, and has been a popular speaker at Oracle conferences around the world, specializing in topics regarding the database engine and PL/SQL. He has twice won the Inspirational Speaker award by the UK Oracle User Group in 2009 and 2011.

Connor is one of the most knowledgeable, informative and entertaining speakers in the Oracle community. If you have not seen one of his presentations then we highly recommend you try to attend. if you have then you will want to be here if you can.