Summer 2024 Virtual Workshop

Date: Thursday July 18, 2024

Time: 9:00am-5:00pm

Location: Virtual ONLY Event

Map Link and Directions: Online Zoom Link (will be in registration email).

Parking: NA

TCOUG Check In: (Please register) - NOTE: email Pres@TCOUG.org or Webmaster@TCOUG.org and let us know if you are attending.

Wifi : NA

Workshop Sponsors

Detailed Agenda

TCOUG SUMMER EVENT AGENDA (July 18, 2024)

(Venue: Online Event on Zoom)

09:30AM CDT Opening note by TCOUG President, Suresh Sikharam

09:40AM CDT Message from our Sponsor - Vaske Computer, Inc.

09:50AM CDT Introduction to MySQL Database Service with HeatWave by Terry Koch

This HeatWave Foundations presentation enables database administrators to accelerate analytics queries on real-time data. Learn how to add a HeatWave cluster to MySQL Database Service DB systems, and to enable transparent offloading of analytics queries to the cluster. Also covered is using the AutoML feature to automate Machine Learning for several different statistical models and the Data Lakehouse feature to load and analyze external data lakes for real-time analytics.

10:40AM CDT Oracle 23AI Overview by Sean Stacey, Director- Platform Solutions

By now you've probably heard the news about the new Oracle Database 23ai feature - AI Vector Search. But what is a Vector Database and how can you take advantage of it today? Where do you start and what do you need to get started?

Attend this session to learn about Oracle Database 23ai Vector Search and start your AI Journey today. The session will include live demos.

11:30AM CDT Lunch Break

12:00PM CDT MySQL Attack Surface Reduction by Daniel Morgan, ACE Director Alum

There is an interesting correlation in Oracle's MySQL Database ... the best security practices also enhance performance ... who'd have guessed.
Oracle Ace Director Alum and Oracle Consulting's current Technical Director for Database Security will cover the background you need for creating tablespaces, tables, enabling auditing, audit log filtering, steganography (look it up), encryption, including a review of the security rules required for US Department of Defense compliance.

12:50PM CDT Artificial Intelligence in the Oracle Database by Daniel Morgan, ACE Director Alum

No IT acronym is both simultaneously "hotter" and "cooler" than AI. Oracle professionals are wondering

1:40PM CDT Oracle Globally Distributed Database with Raft Replication by Pankaj Chandiramani, Director, Product Management

Data and transaction volume in enterprises is exploding, and applications are often required to be available 24/7, comply with data sovereignty regulations while providing extreme performance.
Discover how Oracle Globally Distributed Database achieves all of this seamlessly while rendering strong data consistency, the full power of SQL, and support for structured and unstructured data and generative AI. Hear how customers are building global-scale applications that can scale to millions of transactions per second with petabytes of data, eliminate downtime, and comply with data sovereignty regulations while using new 23ai features including Raft replication, a consensus-based replication protocol that facilitates automatic configuration of replication across all shards.

2:30PM CDT Closing note by the TCOUG President, Suresh Sikharam

Introduction to Presenters

Sean Stacey is a Director of Product Management in Oracle's Server Technologies organization. Sean joined Oracle in 1997, and during his time with Oracle has focused much of his time supporting Oracle's partner community with programs focused on Oracle Database adoption. Most recently Sean has been working with Oracle customers and partners to help them move to Oracle Database 19c and the Autonomous Database.

Sean's expertise in the Oracle database is both theoretical as well as hands-on. He frequently provides technical advisory services and education to Oracle customers and partners to ensure they are getting the most from their Oracle technology investment. In addition to these program activities, he has authored several white papers and frequently speaks at Oracle user conferences.

Prior to joining Oracle, Sean was a software developer and then an Oracle Database Administrator in Australia, the United Kingdom as well as the United States. He currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Terry Koch has over thirty-five years’ experience as a developer, architect, support, and technical sales team member now and previously at EDS, Oracle, and Cloudera. For more than a decade, Koch has focused on Oracle Engineered Systems installations, implementations, and migrations, as well as OCI and Cloud at Customer implementations and managed services.

Daniel Morgan is currently Technical Director of Database Security at Oracle and a member of Oracle’s internal Security Tiger Team. Morgan began his career as an Oracle Database consultant in the mid-1980s working with version 5.1 and is now actively Beta Testing version 23c. His career has included being one of the first Oracle ACE Directors (2007), an adjunct professor at the University of Washington, international travel for Oracle to countries and numerous times speaking at Oracle conferences in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Asia-Pacific Region.

Pankaj Chandiramani, Director, Product Management - With an extensive

19-year background in business technology, Pankaj Chandiramani currently

holds the position of Director of Product Management for Oracle Database. His

expertise spans the development and marketing of enterprise Software as a

Service (SaaS), hybrid, and on-premises products. Pankaj manages multiple

lines of products, including Globally Distributed Database (on-prem and cloud),

True Cache, and Global Data Services. He has successfully contributed to various domains,

including AI/ML, IT Operations, Data Management, and DevOps.

TCOUG President

Suresh Sikharam - President TCOUG, Enterprise Data and Systems Architect

President, TCOUG

Suresh has over 25 years of experience in Database Development, Architecture, performance tuning Oracle and SQL applications.
Mentor, Team Lead, People manager, with experience leading many technical teams to success in software development and CI/CD space using Git, BAMS, Puppet, Flyway.
Technical team lead Data Science projects.
Currently leading strategic efforts in the Enterprise Data and Systems Architecture.
Broad and deep knowledge in AWS, GCP and Azure ecosystems.

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