Most AI tools give you answers when you ask questions. Shane is fundamentally different. Shane asks YOU questions as he leads you through your performance analysis.

This isn't a one-shot Q&A session. It's a collaboration with an expert Oracle tuning professional. Shane proactively guides you through the diagnostic process, asking the right questions at the right time. Shane won't recommend a solution until he's confident he understands your situation enough to provide real value.

Shane knows OraPub's and Viscosity's proven performance methodologies—the three-circle analysis, Oracle time model integration, and OS-level system analysis—in a deep and intimate way. Shane has studied all my webinars, books, blogs, and Viscosity's performance-focused work. This means Shane understands real production Oracle system issues, not just generic database theory.

When Shane does recommend solutions, he explains why each one matters and why it will work for your specific situation. You can also pitch your own ideas—Shane will evaluate them and provide feedback that makes you a better problem-solver.

In this live webinar, I'll show you how to collaborate effectively with Shane to solve real Oracle performance problems. You'll learn practical techniques for working together—whether you're analyzing production AWR reports or tackling those intense, random, short-lived scenarios. You'll walk away knowing how to get the best results from Shane immediately.

If you've been curious how Shane is different or want to learn how to use it effectively, this is your chance.

Presented by Craig Shallahamer, Applied AI Scientist, Viscosity Founder, OraPub Oracle ACE Director. Having worked with Oracle technology since 1989, Craig Shallahamer is a leader in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence and Oracle database performance tuning. This event is co-hosted by the New York Oracle Users Group (www.nyoug.org) and Oracle Professional Services firm, Viscosity North America (www.viscosityna.com)

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Unlock the power of Oracle Database 23AI and Autonomous Database Serverless (ADB-S) with this comprehensive guide to the latest innovations in performance, security, automation, and AI-driven optimization. As enterprises embrace intelligent and autonomous data platforms, understanding these capabilities is essential for data architects, developers, and DBAs. Explore cutting-edge features such as vector data types and AI-powered vector search, revolutionizing data retrieval in modern AI applications. Learn how schema privileges and the DB_DEVELOPER_ROLE simplify access control in multi-tenant environments. Dive into advanced auditing, SQL Firewall, and data integrity constraints to strengthen security and compliance. Discover AI-driven advancements like machine learning-based query execution, customer retention prediction, and AI-powered query tuning. Additional chapters cover innovations in JSON, XML, JSON-Relational Duality Views, new indexing techniques, SQL property graphs, materialized views, partitioning, lock-free transactions, JavaScript stored procedures, blockchain tables, and automated bigfile tablespace shrinking. What sets this book apart is its practical focus—each chapter includes real-world case studies and executable scripts, enabling professionals to implement these features effectively in enterprise environments. Whether you're optimizing performance or aligning IT with business goals, this guide is your key to building scalable, secure, and AI-powered solutions with Oracle 23AI and ADB-S. What You Will Learn Explore Oracle 23AI's latest features through real-world use cases Implement AI/ML-driven optimizations for smarter, autonomous database performance Gain hands-on experience with executable scripts and practical coding examples Strengthen security and compliance using advanced auditing, SQL Firewall, and blockchain tables Master high-performance techniques for query tuning, in-memory processing, and scalability Revolutionize data access with AI-powered vector search in modern AI workloads Simplify user access in multi-tenant environments using schema privileges and DB_DEVELOPER_ROLE Model and query complex data using JSON-Relational Duality Views and SQL property graphs Who this Book is For Database architects, data engineers, Oracle developers, and IT professionals seeking to leverage Oracle 23AI’s latest features for real-world applications

Oracle database 23ai requires the use of PDB multitenant. Feeling a little intimidated or unsure? In this session we will cover all the basic information you need to know to bring your skills up to speed to convert to and support multitenant architecture in a day-to-day setting. Topics will include:

• Basics: login, connections, services, open modes
• Security: local users, common users, lockdown profiles
• PDB creation
• PDB settings (INIT Params)
• PDB resource Limits (I/O, Memory, CPU)
• AWR Configurations
• PDB movement (Plug / Un-Plug, Clone, Refresh)

PDB Backup / Recovery

Don’t wait, start using these features in Oracle 19c now!

Presented by Gary Gordhamer, Managing Principal Consultant, Viscosity

This event is co-hosted by the New York Oracle Users Group (www.nyoug.org) and Oracle Professional Services firm, Viscosity North America (www.viscosityna.com)

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NYOUG General Meeting December 9. 2025 1:00pm - 5:00pm Accenture Conference Center 1 Manhattan West - 395 9th Ave (at 33rd St)

Live from New York... NYOUG in person meetings return

Session 1 (\~1:00 PM) – AI for Data: Unlock the Future with Oracle Database 26ai

Maria Colgan– Vice President, AI & Mission-Critical Data, Oracle Oracle Database 26ai is here! Dive into the groundbreaking AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI Agency features built directly into the database. Maria will show you how to instantly apply AI to your data – securely and at scale – to solve complex problems faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver exceptional experiences.

• ✅ Solve your toughest challenges with built-in AI
• ✅ Drive smarter business decisions
• ✅ Create standout customer & employee experiences

Session 2 (\~3:00 PM) – Mastering Oracle Multicloud Architectures

Tammy Bednar– Product Manager, Exadata Database, Base Database & Multicloud Services, Oracle Oracle Database now runs natively on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Get a technical deep-dive into Oracle Database@Azure, Database@Google Cloud, Database@AWS, OCI Interconnect, and real-world hybrid patterns. Walk away with clear guidance on performance, latency, cost, control, migration strategies, and automation for rehosting, replatforming, and full modernization.

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Our Speakers

Maria Colgan Vice President of Product Management for AI and mission-critical data. 28-year Oracle veteran (since v7.3!), author of the SQLMaria blog and a contributing author to the Oracle Optimizer blog. A true “database nerd” who lives to turn customer feedback into game-changing features.

Tammy Bednar 29+ years in the industry, supporting Oracle Database since v6.0.36. Product Manager for Exadata, Base Database, and Multicloud services. Passionate about helping customers modernize with agility, high availability, and cloud economics.

Discover how leading enterprises are leveraging 15+ years of Amazon RDS operational excellence to power their SQL Server and Oracle databases in the cloud. In this session, explore features across Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Oracle that help you achieve substantial cost savings, enhanced scalability, and efficient operations. Through real-world cost optimization techniques and architectural best practices, learn how organizations are reducing operational overhead and costs while improving availability, scalability, and performance.

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Bloctopus.io is an open-source Web3 Virtual Machine for AI that makes agentic blockchain development 100x faster, easier, and more accurate. AI Agents or Developers can spin up realistic, interoperable testnets for EVM and Cosmos-based chains on demand. This gives them a safe, reproducible environment to build, test, and iterate. It's an orchestration layer that spins up devnets with multi-node setups, pre-configured services like oracles, bridges, indexers, easy CI/CD integration and full-stack testing.

Bloctopus.io is an open-source Web3 Virtual Machine for AI that makes agentic blockchain development 100x faster, easier, and more accurate. AI Agents or Developers can spin up realistic, interoperable testnets for EVM and Cosmos-based chains on demand. This gives them a safe, reproducible environment to build, test, and iterate. It's an orchestration layer that spins up devnets with multi-node setups, pre-configured services like oracles, bridges, indexers, easy CI/CD integration and full-stack testing.

Bloctopus.io is an open-source Web3 Virtual Machine for AI that makes agentic blockchain development 100x faster, easier, and more accurate. AI Agents or Developers can spin up realistic, interoperable testnets for EVM and Cosmos-based chains on demand. This gives them a safe, reproducible environment to build, test, and iterate. It's an orchestration layer that spins up devnets with multi-node setups, pre-configured services like oracles, bridges, indexers, easy CI/CD integration and full-stack testing.

Bloctopus.io is an open-source Web3 Virtual Machine for AI that makes agentic blockchain development 100x faster, easier, and more accurate. AI Agents or Developers can spin up realistic, interoperable testnets for EVM and Cosmos-based chains on demand. This gives them a safe, reproducible environment to build, test, and iterate. It's an orchestration layer that spins up devnets with multi-node setups, pre-configured services like oracles, bridges, indexers, easy CI/CD integration and full-stack testing.

Bloctopus.io is an open-source Web3 Virtual Machine for AI that makes agentic blockchain development 100x faster, easier, and more accurate. AI Agents or Developers can spin up realistic, interoperable testnets for EVM and Cosmos-based chains on demand. This gives them a safe, reproducible environment to build, test, and iterate. It's an orchestration layer that spins up devnets with multi-node setups, pre-configured services like oracles, bridges, indexers, easy CI/CD integration and full-stack testing.

Agenda: 18:00 Welcome 18:15 How not to sell the same ticket to two different people by Jose Muñoz (ClickHouse) 19:00 Online schema changes at Scale with TiDB by Mattias Jonsson (PingCAP) 19:45 Lightning Sessions 20:15 Pizza & networking

How not to sell the same ticket to two different people by Jose Muñoz (ClickHouse) Summary: Let’s say we build an app to sell movie theater tickets using your favorite database and framework. We design a stunning interface, pack it with amazing features, and ensure every detail of accessibility is perfect. We deploy it to production, and once users start arriving, we notice some very strange things happening: some customers have purchased the same seat for the same movie at the same time, and in some showings, people are sitting on the floor because we've sold more tickets than there are seats. What could have gone wrong?

In this talk, we’ll explore how these kinds of issues can occur when we don’t use transactions, share some real-world cases, and examine techniques modern databases use to help us avoid these problems.

Bio: Jose is a software engineer with close to nine years of experience building data-centric products at companies such as Tuenti and Tinybird. He now works at ClickHouse, where he maintains the dbt connector. Passionate about community, he has helped organize events with GDG Cáceres and Databeers Madrid and tries to share what he learns by speaking at meetups and conferences.

Online schema changes at Scale with TiDB by Mattias Jonsson (PingCAP) Summary: ALTER TABLE in production databases are tricky, this talk will go through some of the challenges, as well as how the Distributed SQL database TiDB solves the issues as well as providing high speed index addition and more.

Bio: Mattias has worked as a Principal Software Engineer at PingCAP working on TiDB, since April 2021. Previously he worked with MySQL at Booking.com and before that working on MySQL server at Oracle. So more than 20 years of Database experiences, mostly in the MySQL community.

Public transit data is rapidly growing as many transit agencies publish information and encourage developers to create innovative applications. In this session, I will demonstrate how I built an Oracle APEX application to consume GTFS real-time data and present it effectively using APEX map regions and Oracle Spatial/Graph features. I will also explain how I leveraged Oracle Autonomous Database 23ai MLE functionalities to parse the protocol buffer format of GTFS real-time data. The session will include a live demonstration of the application using real-time transit data from a U.S. transit agency.

Presented by Oscar Javier Gordillo Roncancio, Oracle APEX Developer, Consultant at Fire Department of the City of New York.

This event is co-hosted by the New York Oracle Users Group (www.nyoug.org) and Oracle Professional Services firm, Viscosity North America (www.viscosityna.com)

REGISTER HERE: https://viscosityna.com/all-aboard-real-time-transit-data-visualization-with-oracle-apex-nyoug