Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jun 26, 2009
Reanimating the Sydney MySQL User Group!
What: Sydney MySQL User Group meetup #7 – The Reboot
When: July 16, 2009 5:30 PM (please don’t forget to RSVP yes/no/maybe)
Where: Sydney, CBD – join the meetup for exact location.
We are back! After 3 years of being silent, SMUG (can I call it so? I know there are conflicts with other acronyms) resurrects the meetings.
The logistic of the meetup is the following:
- 5:30pm — the gathering starts and we have pizza and beers and talking your peers
- 6:00pm — we start the presentation
- 7:00pm — break and peer networking consuming the leftovers
- 7:30pm — we have an open (but slightly moderated) discussion. Topic is TBC. Perhaps, we can talk about future of MySQL now that Oracle’s bought Sun?
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jun 22, 2009
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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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jun 10, 2009
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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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jun 1, 2009
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 . . .
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 20, 2009
What: Free Webinar — Oracle RAC Workload Management
When: Tomorrow! 2 separate webinars in two timezones
- Australian timezone – 21-May-09 12pm AEST (Sydney/Melbourne)
- North American timezone – 21-May-09 4pm EDT or 12PM PDT
Where: Online. Register for North American or Australian webinars.
Details:
When I posted my RAC Workload Management whitepaper, it was downloaded by many but it turned out that not everyone has half a day to go through such level of details and, frankly, not everyone is interested in how those features are implemented.
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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 20, 2009
It’s the second day of the InSync09 conference in Sydney — the first large-scale conference in Australia that combined user of all Oracle applications such as E-Business Suite, Hyperion, Siebel and all others that Oracle has bought in the last years. There is quite a bit of sessions on SOA and Fusion technology.
Official number of attendees is 550 but it definitely feels smaller. Perhaps, because quite a number attending only one of two days.
There are very few sessions going into technical details and I think my presentation yesterday was as technical as it could get at this conference even though it was more “shallow” than my typical presentations. My talk was titled “Making Oracle E-Business Suite Highly Available”. The idea of the session was to advocate for being reasonable when implementing HA solutions.
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Apr 16, 2009
InSync09 is the first conference in Australia focused on Oracle applications which in the past few years multiplied immensely in numbers — e-Business Suite, JD Edwards, JD Edwards, Hyperion, Siebel, BEA, PeopleSoft. There is also significant focus on SOA.
I submitted couple abstracts and one of them has been accepted so if you are attending InSync09 next week then I’ll see you there! Make you you find me to say hello — they plan to have quite a crows there with up to 500 people.
The presentation that I’m doing is titled “Making Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Highly Available”. It’s more an architectural paper to show what are the paths and how to plan the environment for high availability and what technologies can be used. Obviously, I will touch some of the DBA friendly topics like RAC and DataGuard but it definitely won’t be focused on the database tier only. It’s actually going to be quite an experience as I’m not really an Apps DBA myself so learning curve has been quite steep. I do, however, have good advisers in this are so it should be fine.
The rest of you who are not attending the conference, perhaps, you will make it tonight to the Sydney Oracle Meetup with Tanel Poder and Ric Van Dyke. In the end, what can be better in the current economy than free education topped up with free beer?
