An analogy packed, richly experienced session with a touch of technical sprinkling was delivered by Pythian’s premier leader Paul Vallee in 280 Pitt Street, Sydney yesterday to a small but engaging audience. The session was organized by Sydney Oracle Meetup and the host, the Pythian’s Oracle ACE Yury Velikanov smoothly carried it out. Session was followed by a refreshing visit to Marble bar, Hilton in Sydney CBD for networking.

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Hello Community,

This is a short blog post to let you know that there is a Oracle 11GR2 Clustering Webinar is coming this week.

I will be presenting “Oracle11G SCAN: Sharing successful implementation experience” this Wednesday, July 27, 2011 in Australian and Europe time zones:

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – London

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Riga

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM – New Delhi

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Sydney

This session is going to be presented more in-depth at Oracle OpenWorld this year. Thank to all your votes at Oracle MIX. This webinar is kind of a bit of a pre-Oracle OpenWorld warm up :)

Please feel free to join the session.

Yury

Hello Community!

In this post:

• InSync11 – Oracle Conference!
• RAC SIG ANZ – way to find each other!
• Other ways to find your RAC SIG ANZ fellows!

InSync11 – Oracle Conference!

This post is addressed to all RAC SIG members who is planning to participate in the InSync11 conference this August in Sydney Australia! InSync11 is organized by Oracle Community for Oracle Community and is one of the biggest Oracle technology dedicated events in Australia and New Zealand region. If you are in the area by August 16th and haven’t considered participating yet, you should! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from others, listen to experts from around the world and meet face to face people from your networks (including RAC SIG).

RAC SIG ANZ – way to find each other!

There are 130 members from Australia and New Zealand region in RAC Special Interest Group today! I am sure that many of the members will participate in the InSync11!
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I’ve been so amazed by the community response to my requests over the past few days that I just HAD to blog about it.

In this post:

• Oracle MIX and Suggest-a-Session voting
• My very first experience and approach to the event
• I ask for an APOLOGY (I was short on time)
• Special thanks to those who showed their support

Oracle MIX and Suggest-a-Session voting
As some of you are aware the whole world (including Australia) has been allowed to propose and vote for their favorite presentations for Oracle OpenWorld 2011 on Oracle MIX over the last two weeks. The voting is closed now and it is time to share the experience (results not in, yet!).
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The Oracle OpenWorld 2010 conference is over and life is getting back to normal. However, this is a traditional time for the OOW after-parties and local meetings to discuss the results of the biggest annual event in Oracle space. Our Sydney Oracle Meetup is not an exception.

• Avi Miller: Linux and Open Source – 8th of October

  The first event in October is organized by Oracle Community in Sydney is “Linux, Virtualization and Cloud Computing with Oracle (OOW)”. If you are in  Sydney on the 8th of October you are more than welcome to join the event. I am happy to introduce Avi Miller who is long term Open Source and Linux evangelists in Australia. Currently, Avi is working as a Principal Consultant at Oracle and coming over to Sydney from Melbourne to present for the community. Please do not hesitate to pass this invitation to all IT staff in your organisation who may be interested (System Administrators, IT Managers, DBAs). I am sure many of you will enjoy the event.

• Tim Hall: Oracle PL/SQL expert – 18th of October
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Hello folks,

If it happens and you are in and around the Sydney area 1-2 weeks from now then you might be interested in taking part in the following events:

The first event is organized by Oracle Community in Sydney (sponsored by Pythian), during the next Sydney Oracle Meetup. The good news is that you can have free beer and pizza to recharge your batteries after a working day and have a good discussion with Oracle professionals in friendly environment.
- a – RAC, Grid, Cloud or on the way to Oracle Cloud
Wednesday 8 September 2010 17:30 p.m. to 19:30 p.m.

Usually, there are not many full day Oracle-related events happening in Sydney. More good news is that another one is coming soon. Attend and hear about new products and features from Oracle themselves and win a Car Navigator (as one of the lucky Pythian’s employees did at last Oracle event in Sydney recently :)
- b – Oracle’s Next Generation Data Centre Summit 2010 – Sydney
Thursday 16 September 2010 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

See you around,
Yury – a DBA from down under

What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #8 — Exadata Extravaganza

When: Friday, July 17, 2009 5:30 PM (please, make sure to RSVP yes/no/maybe)

Where: Sydney CBD Join meetup for the detailed location.

The topic for this meetup is quite exciting – Oracle Exadata and everything about it. David Centellas, Senior Database Consultant from Oracle will do technical presentation on Exadata and, after the break, we will have a open forum discussion where two Oracle’s Enterprise Architects, Tim Rubin and Chris Jones, will answer our questions and share thir real-world experience.

Schedule:

• 5:30pm – 6:00pm — Networking with food and refreshments
• 6:00pm – 7:00pm — Presentation on Exadata by David Centellas
• 7:00pm – 7:30pm — Break and informal networking
• 7:30pm – 8:30pm — Open Forum based on real-world Exadata experience with David Centellas, Tim Rubin and Chris Jones
• post even — optional gathering in the nearby pub – it’s Friday night in the end!

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What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #7 – Advanced Queuing in E-Business Suite
When:Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:30 PM (please, make sure to RSVP yes/no/maybe)
Where: Our standard location in Sydney CBD

Welcome to our meetup #7! This meetup will be focused on Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ) feature and its usage in Oracle E-Business Suite.

For inexperienced SOM members, we are starting with the meet & greet and pizza+drinks at 5:30 pm and move to smart things at 6:00 pm. We will be there until about 8:30pm (some are sticking around a bit longer while some might take off a bit earlier) and will have a break in the middle. The second half is generally more open-ended as most of you already know.

So what are the goodies at this meetup?
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What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #6 — storage for Oracle databases

When: June 17, 2009 5:30 PM. Please RSVP Yes/No/Maybe.

Where: Our usual location at Sydney CBD. Level 3 this time!

Details:

We will start at 5:30PM with pizza and drinks and roll on from there as usual.
Note that we are meeting at the level 3 this time!

This meetup will be focused on storage technologies for Oracle database. It looks like a short presentation on Oracle Automatic Storage Management is in order – quite a few people are missing the concepts of the Oracle flagman storage storage solution and it’s useful to understand the approach whether you use it now or not.

So the presentation is – Oracle ASM 11g – the Evolution by Alex Gorbachev:
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I think it was the smallest group so far which is not surprising considering that Monday has been the least popular day in our internal poll. We had a tad less than 20 people but very good size for the informal discussion of Oracle 11g adoption that took place at the second half of the meetup.

Turned out that there are very few people running 11g in production. Besides us at Pythian with number of clients on 11g, we’ve had only couple people I think including Carl Young from Metcash. Carl shared their experience of running a multi-terabyte data-warehouse on Oracle 11g and how the migration happened. Thanks a lot Carl for your insights!

If you haven’t seen the case study from Oracle about this migration — see what benefits Metcash had with 11g migration. I myself took note of few areas — Query Cache helped a lot on dimension tables lookups and some popular reports, Materialized Views invalidation problems reduced, CBO becomes smarter.

Some of the things to pay attention to in 11g — Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g (11.1.0.6) has actually less features than the latest OWB 10g release. If you look at 11.1.0.7′s list of bugs fixed (Metalink Note 601739.1), you would see a few dozen bugs on “Wrong Results” Read the rest of this entry . . .