Michelle Malcher
Michelle Malcher, president of Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG), is a DBA team lead with several years of experience in database development, design and administration. She has expertise in security, performance tuning, data modeling and database architecture of very large database environments. As an Oracle ACE Director, she enjoys sharing knowledge about best practices involving database environments. She has authored articles and a book, “Oracle Database Administration for the Microsoft SQL Server DBA,” and is a co-author for “Oracle Database 12c: Install, Configure & Maintain Like a Professional” and “Oracle Database 11g Beginner’s Guide.”
Articles by Michelle Malcher
Using the Oracle Database 12c Multitenant features sets up the 12c environment in a way that provides some additional flexibility and supports a move to a pluggable databases setting. If database instances are created as CDB with a single PDB, and the requirement comes to consolidate several of these instances together, the move to a Multitenant environment is a whole lot easier.
Posted April 04, 2014
IT organizations see benefit in providing cloud services and database as a service in consolidation environments and in being able to deliver the needed business solutions quickly and cost-effectively. A first step to starting the journey to providing databases as a service is to consolidate database environments, and the Oracle Database 12c actually provides a great way to do just that.
Posted December 04, 2013
Connect with the IOUG at Oracle OpenWorld 2013
Posted August 21, 2013
At the recent Oracle users conference COLLABORATE 13, IOUG hosted an evening hands-on lab for attendees. The turnout was great—even after a full day of conference sessions. What topic drew such a dedicated crowd? Two words: Performance Tuning.
Posted June 05, 2013