Posted by Alex Gorbachev on May 26, 2009
More than a month has passed since Sydney Oracle Meetup #2. We shot some video, but it took me a while to process it and publish a few interesting pieces, but I finally got it all.
Ric Van Dyke‘s presentation on tuning SQL queries using 10046 trace is available on the SOM website in the Files section (you must be a member). However, there were no material from Tanel Poder‘s session — it’s title started with “Zero Slides…” and Tanel demonstrated live some of his secrets of productivity in Oracle troubleshooting. Luckily, my colleague, Andrey Goryunov, managed to shoot some of it on the video and I’m publishing here a couple fragments on the visualization of Oracle performance troubleshooting.
Make sure you are watching them in HQ on YouTube to see more details and if you like these videos, make sure you rate them.
PerfSheet is a very handy solution based on Microsoft Excel scripting and let you automate extraction and charting of any data you can extract from an Oracle database (and generally speaking, any other database). The best thing is that Tanel has put great efforts in it and made it available to everyone for free. One demo is worth many words so here we go:
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on May 25, 2009
What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #5 – Oracle Database 11g adoption
When: Monday, June 1, 2009 5:30 PM. Please don’t forget to RSVP – whether it’s Yes, No or Maybe.
Where: As usual in Sydney CBD. See SOM#5 event page for the location.
This meetup is focused on Oracle 11g adoption. We will have one presentation followed by (or combined with) the discussion of Oracle Database 11g release, who is using it currently – what are positive and negative moments.
Apologies for Monday – it’s a rather unpopular day but this is when the room is available next week (except Friday again).
The presentation for this meeting is “Oracle 11g New Features Out of the Box” by Alex Gorbachev. Unlike many presentations on 11g new features, we will try to focus on a more subtle enhancements and less known new features. Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on May 13, 2009
Please feel free to submit the backup and recovery and DR topics you want to discuss – just mention in the comments and I’ll make sure they are on the agenda!
What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #4 – Backups, Recovery and Disasters
When: May 15, 2009 5:30 PM
Where: Our usual location in CBD see even page for details.
Meetup Description:
SOM #4 is about Oracle backup and recovery. As usual, Pizza and drinks arrive at 5:30PM and we start the presentation at 6PM. We should be out by 8:30PM with optional post-event program. It’s Friday night in the end! Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Apr 22, 2009
What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #3 – Focus on E-Business Suite + Oracle/Sun deal
When: April 28, 2009 5:30 PM
Where: As usual – Sydney Mechanics School of Art
How: just register at the SOM website.
We have to limit the number of people to 40 this time so make sure you RSVP timely!
We are gathering at 5:30pm and technical goodies are starting at 6pm so use this time to catch up with other members. We should finish by 8:30pm including a beaks and some post follow up. The presentation schedule is a bit floating this time.
As usual, we should have some pizza and beverages facilitating seamless peer networking. ;-)
In addition to the main topic, we plan to have some overview of Oracle / Sun deal and share what everyone thinks about it + report from the InSync09 conference. We will talk a bit about MySQL as it becomes Oracle technology now.
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Apr 1, 2009
Before I get to the announcement of the next Sydney Oracle Meetup, let me share the experience from the the Very First SOM that took place yesterday. I think I can sum it up as one word — awesome!
My schedule was a bit crazy recently and I was afraid I could forget something important under time pressure (it always happens to me). In the end, I did forget few things (like napkins and power adapter for my MacBook) but it was all resolved.
Thanks to Andre Araujo for helping me to carry some of the required “ingredients”. One of the attendees was there a bit early so we’d got additional help preparing the room (thanks Jack). As we just cracked the first beers and pizzas, people started arriving and we had nice 30 minutes of warm up.
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Mar 19, 2009
Gday everyone. This information would be most useful for the Oracle professionals in Sydney, Australia. I’m very excited to announce the Sydney Oracle Meetup (SOM).
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