Oracle Magazine, Nov/Dec 2017
PEER TO PEER ORACLE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2017 26 Company NAU Country Job title Principal database engineer Length of time using Oracle products 20 years Which new capabilities in Oracle Database are you currently finding most valuable One of my favorites is Oracle Database 12c Release 2 s real time materialized views Since we started implementing real time materialized views weve gone from a small handful of materialized views 6 of them in production to more than 30 and were only just beginning What technology has most changed your life Most recently Oracle Exadata Multitenant is changing the way we do business to rapidly deploy clones of our production database Prior to Oracle Exadata Multitenant we ran 30 clones of our production database in virtual machines for our DevTest efforts We always had to battle for more resources to host more clones With Oracle Exadata Multitenant we were able to stop duplicating the overhead of the OS and the database instance Were now on track to host up to 100 clones of our production database without increasing the physical resources for our Oracle infrastructure How are you using mobile computing in your work these days My company is a federal crop insurance provider so our customers are farmers in the field Our claims adjusters are with our customers in the field Our agents are selling policies in the field So clearly its imperative that we have mobile applications for end users who are literally out in the field Brian Peasland Fargo North Dakota
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