Data
What is a relatively new popular source of data that organizations use to understand customer sentiments
What is Social Media
What is required by any application to manage its data?
What is a database?
How many code bases does Oracle build and maintain for the Oracle database?
What is 1?
What are the three reasons customers use applications and databases to improve their processes.
What is reduce time, reduce risk and/or reduce cost?
What is the primary advantage of Oracle Enterprise Edition over Oracle Standard Edition
What are the ability to license options for requirements like security, high availability, and improved management?
True or False, Oracle is the only database that can store multiple types of data (relational, document, etc.)
False, many competitors are able to store multiple data types
What are the two basic types of data?
What are structured and unstructured?
Daily Double
What is an every day example of something that looks like a database?
What is Excel?
What are the three pricing and packaging options customers can choose from for the Oracle database
What are Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Autonomous
What are the Top 3 tasks performed by DBAs
What are Diagnose Issues, Improve Performance and Patch/Upgrade databases?
Daily Double
What is the advantage of using the Oracle database on prem and in the cloud?
Being able to run the same applications on-prem and in the cloud, without changes
True or False, Oracle's technology differentiators are the most important component to determine a competitive advantage for the customer
False, understanding the customer's specific business or technical needs for the application
What kinds of applications use Spatial data?
What are mapping applications like 911?
How is structured data normally stored in a database?
What are rows and columns?
What is one of the latest types database competition for Oracle?
What is open source databases or specialty databases?
What do you call a single database installation that supports and application?
What is an instance?
What does the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) ability of running the Oracle database on OCI deliver for the customer?
Leverage their existing licensing and entitlement to lower their cost in the cloud
Which commercial database is viewed as being most similar and therefore most competitive with Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
What is a data repository that organizations build to store and manage data that normally doesn't get stored in a database?
Data Lake
What is a business characteristic of an application that may give you a hint about whether an open source or speciality database could be appropriate for the task?
Size of deployment (department vs enterprise)
Business use of the application
Characteristics of the data
What is a differentiator for the Oracle database that no other commercial or open source database has that addresses extreme performance requirements
Exadata Engineered System
When thinking about WII-FM for a DBA, what is most likely their top answer?
Reduce Overtime
Work on more strategic projects
Lower stress
What is the advantage of an Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) and what should a customer have in order to justify it?
Entitlement to deploy as many licenses of the Oracle Database
Expected business growth that will require significant additional licenses on prem or in the cloud
Daily Double
Which are the top 3 competitive advantages that the Oracle database is able to deliver to the business?
Performance/Scalability, High Availability and Security
What is the type of database that enables management of relational, unstructured, spatial, graph, JSON and other types of data?
What is converged?
Why is a transaction processing workload often more crucial to a business than an analytical workload?
A transaction processing workload is how they make money and often requires higher standards for performance, availability and security.
What is the difference between license entitlement and a license contract?
What are entitlement defines how much can use and the contract is the way buy the license?
What are the top 2 complaints raised by DBAs
What are DBA overwork and scheduling (overtime, etc.)
What are the 3 most important questions you have to understand about a customer BEFORE you can have conversation with them about their Oracle database
What business are they in (How do they make $)?
What applications are they running on the Oracle DB?
How do those applications help them to make $?
What are the two "types" of competitive advantage that you have to be aware of for every customer?
Real competitive advantages (Engineered systems performance advantages)
Perceived competitive advantages (e.g. Open Source is cheaper)