Day One and Beyond

Day One and Beyond webinars are designed for IT professionals, business owners, and decision-makers looking to understand how Oracle Cloud and Oracle Cloud Applications help organizations simplify operations, gain real-time insights, and adapt quickly to change. Led by experienced trainers, these sessions offer practical guidance on optimizing your cloud deployment and driving stronger business outcomes.

Cloud Coaching

Oracle AI Database

Move beyond deployment and into optimization. Learn how to improve performance, strengthen security, automate operations, and unlock more value from your Oracle AI Database investment. Explore AI-powered capabilities, including vector search, and discover how Oracle AI Database can help support modern AI applications and workloads. Explore sessions designed for every stage of your journey.

Session Types

Deep Dives

Exadata: Security, Patching & Cyber Resilience

Date: September 22, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 60 mins

This webinar provides a technical overview of how Exadata helps protect mission-critical databases while reducing operational risk. We will examine how defense-in-depth security, encryption and key management, Oracle Data Safe, and operational best practices work together to strengthen database security posture.

The session also covers patching strategies that reduce downtime and support fleet maintenance, as well as ransomware considerations, backup and recovery, isolation patterns, and resilience testing. Attendees will learn how security, patching, and cyber resilience align with Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) to support a practical, integrated strategy for database protection and continuity.

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Upgrading to AI Database 26ai

Date: October 5, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 60 mins

Now is the time to upgrade your Oracle Database! In this session, learn best practices for planning and executing a successful upgrade, including how to use AutoUpgrade to make upgrades and non-CDB to PDB migrations easier. We’ll also cover strategies for maintaining performance stability, avoiding SQL plan regressions, and multiple methods for converting your database to the multitenant architecture. Learn how the right tools and proven practices can help you reduce upgrade risk and confidently move to 26ai—unlocking the latest capabilities, including AI Vector Search, Select AI, enhanced developer capabilities, and more.

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Exadata Operations, Monitoring & Autonomous Health

Date: October 27, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 60 mins

This webinar provides a practical operating model for managing Exadata health, maintenance, and day-two operations. We will examine how operations teams can use the right monitoring signals and tools to establish visibility, interpret alerts in context, and move from reactive response to evidence-based triage.

The session also covers maintenance planning, triage workflows, and field-tested operational lessons that help teams identify issues sooner and make more informed decisions. Attendees will leave with a clearer approach to maintaining Exadata health, improving operational readiness, and connecting with related learning and specialist guidance.

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Hands-on Labs

Oracle AI Database 26ai on SQL Enhancements

Date: September 15, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 60 mins

Oracle AI Database has been committed to prioritizing SQL functionality, and striving to elevate its capabilities. With over four decades of innovation, Oracle has consistently pushed the boundaries of what SQL can achieve.

In Oracle AI Database 26ai, significant enhancements have been made to the SQL layer, further solidifying its position as a leading database solution.

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SQL Meets JSON in Oracle AI Database

Date: September 22, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 90 mins

What if your AI could actually do things instead of just explaining how?

Explore how Oracle AI Database unifies relational and document data in one platform. Provision an Autonomous AI Database, work with native JSON and JSON Collections, create Duality Views, and use the MongoDB-compatible API to build flexible, high-performance applications—without having to choose between SQL and JSON.

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Autonomous Database Migration Bootcamp over NFS

Date: October 6, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 90 mins

Learn how to migrate an on-premises PDB to Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) with Oracle Data Pump over NFS. Configure an NFS share between the source environment and ADB, export the source schema, and import it into ADB—gaining greater control over migration parallelism.

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Autonomous Database Migration Bootcamp over DB Link

Date: October 13, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 90 mins

Learn how to migrate an on-premises PDB to Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) with Data Pump over a database link. Test secure mTLS connectivity, create a DB link from ADB to the source PDB, and import the schema directly without intermediate dump files—ideal for smaller, low-latency workloads.

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Manage Autonomous Database

Date: November 3, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 90 mins

The labs in this workshop show you a variety of ways to manage and monitor your Oracle AI Autonomous Database Serverless. You will provision a new ADB instance, practice connecting to the database securely with and without a connection wallet, examine a variety of ways to monitor database performance and other metrics, apply scaling and auto scaling, enable disaster recovery using Autonomous Data Guard, create refreshable database clones, set event and alarm notifications, and secure your data using Oracle Data Safe.

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Monitor Autonomous Database

Date: November 10, 2026 | Start Time: 10 AM PT | Duration: 90 mins

Learn to administer Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless from provisioning through protection. Create an ADB instance, connect securely with or without a wallet, load sample data, scale resources, enable Autonomous Data Guard, create refreshable clones, configure notifications, and protect data with Oracle Data Safe.

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