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 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 Brad Hudson on Apr 24, 2009
Hi folks. I am back for the second in what will eventually be a long line of infrequent updates. Did you miss me?
End of School with Linux
OCLUG (The Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group) is putting on an event called—you guessed it—End of School with Linux. This is happening on April 28, 2009 starting at 11am at the University of Ottawa in the SITE building, room C0136. The purpose of the event is to help people with their Linux systems, install Linux, fix issues, and just generally help out in the community. Your humble blogger will be there, manning the booth from 1200-1600, so come on down. And tell a friend, too.
More details can be found at the CSSA’s page. Click here for a map of the campus.
Also check out the OCLUG home page.
Ubuntu 9.04 Released
Ubuntu 9.04 was released today. I have not yet looked at any reviews of the release candidates, but I am on my way out to pick up some new hardware on which to install it tonight.
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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 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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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Dec 11, 2007
This message is for our readers mostly located in UK and Europe but keep reading even if you are far away geographically – nothing is impossible in our digital age and you might actually consider traveling there in case of desperate interest. Your feedback would be useful, either way.
What I want to draw your attention to is that Jonathan Lewis has posted a call for attendees for a special event dedicated to virtualization technologies with Oracle. This event is considered by UKOUG and whether it happens or not depends on you.
I had a brief discussion with Jonathan at the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham last week and shared significant interest about virtualization that I can see from our customers as well as a fear cloud around it. From my point of view, an event dedicated to virtualization technologies would be very timely now to satisfy quickly growing interest and provide real world experience in addition to publicly available marketing-like information from different vendors. Knowing high quality of UKOUG events, I’m sure that this would be a great forum to share ideas and learn what others do with virtualization.
Have a quick look here if haven’t done so already especially if you are closer to managerial role or wear architect’s hat rather than DBA’s one. It’s not only about host virtualization but also network, storage and other resources.
