Bio
Sean is an Oracle ACE Director, Oracle Certified Professional, Data on Kubernetes Community Ambassador, and the author of “Oracle on Docker: Running Oracle Databases in Linux Containers.” He’s a Managing Principal Consultant with Viscosity North America, specializing in database upgrades, migrations, RAC/MAA, HA and DR design and implementation, Oracle Engineered systems, DevOps, automation, and Docker/containers.
My Talks
Achieving Extreme Scalability, Availability, Tenancy, and Sovereignty with Sharding
There are misconceptions that sharding is only for big databases but it addresses availability, fault isolation, data tenancy, latency, migration, and even performance concerns. It's an important s...
Advanced Docker Recipes: Building Complex Oracle Environments
If you're an Oracle DBA or developer using the basic Docker recipes from Oracle's GitHub site but want to extend your Docker skills, this presentation is for you! I'll give you deeper insight into ...
Autoupgrade - Myths and Methods
"Autoupgrade is only for large environments."
"Configuration is time-consuming and challenging."
"It doesn't work with non-container databases."
Get the truth about Autoupgrade and learn why it's t...
Data as Code: Exploring Data and Database Portability
Data as Code eliminates the bottlenecks of legacy environments by democratizing the data stack! Organizations don't have to compromise data quality against speed and convenience when developers are...
Getting Started with Oracle on Docker
Nine databases running at once, on a laptop? Check. Starts in seconds? Check. Deploy new databases in under a minute? Check. Supports 11g thru 19c? Check. Faster and lighter than a VM? Check. Find ...
Learn how containers work by playing Tic-Tac-Toe
Can a game of Tic-Tac-Toe reveal the inner mechanisms of containers and help us understand more effective ways of building and using them?
Absolutely! Tic-Tac-Toe provides a perfect metaphor for c...
Never name a database "STANDBY" (and nine other things they don't teach in Data Guard school)
Do you know why you should never name a database with any variation of "standby?" If not, you need to attend this session!
Oracle Sharding for the 99%
Oracle promotes Sharding as a solution for running massive workloads at scale, but Sharding addresses a surprising number of issues the "other 99%" of us face—matters of compliance, performance and...
Run Oracle Database Upgrades on Docker
Where will you practice your next upgrade? How many chances will database teams have to familiarize themselves with the tools, and how prepared will they be if something goes wrong?
Docker makes i...
Workshop: Run Oracle Database Upgrades on Docker
Where will you practice your next upgrade? How many chances will database teams have to familiarize themselves with the tools, and how prepared will they be if something goes wrong?
Docker makes i...