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		<title>Pythian at RMOUG Training Days 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maryanne Birksted</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian is very excited to return to the much-awaited RMOUG 12 held in Denver, Colorado from February 14-16, 2012. Keep your eyes open for Alex Gorbachev, Marc Fielding, Don Seiler and Gwen Shapira in attendance. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers this year featuring a total of seven papers presented by Alex, Marc, Don [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gearing up for RMOUG Training Days 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 edition of RMOUG Training Days in Denver less than a month away, running February 15 and 16 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Although it&#8217;s only two days, there&#8217;s a lot of technical content there, and a refreshing reduction in marketing-oriented presentations from &#8220;product managers&#8221;. It&#8217;s not too late to register, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKOUG2011: e-Business Suite Concurrent Processing Performance Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another December has started and you know what it means right? It’s the Christmas time? NO! It’s time for UKOUG Technology and e-Business Suite 2011 conference! There are not many things that can make a passionate Apps DBA more excited than that. UKOUG Tech &#38; eBS conferences are the only ones in Europe that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Mastering Oracle Trace Data&#8221; by Cary Millsap right after the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/29027/mastering-oracle-tracecary-millsap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend (and personal hero) Cary Millsap is doing a series of one day classes around the world &#8212; Mastering Oracle Trace Data. One of them is conveniently scheduled in Birmingham Thursday next week right after the UKOUG Conference. It&#8217;s not far from the Birmingham ICC where the UKOUG Technology and Business Suite Conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Database Appliance: Storage Performance &#8212; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I want to show what kind of IO performance we can get from Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). In this part, I will focus on hard disks. That&#8217;s right &#8212; those good old brown spinning disks. I often use Oracle ORION tool to stress-test an IO subsystem and find it&#8217;s limits. It&#8217;s a very simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RMOUG 2011: Pythian Raffle Results</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/22327/rmoug-2011-pythian-raffle-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m following up on a conference almost half a year later &#8212; try to bet that! Actually, this blog post was written more than 3 months ago and was sitting in my drafts waiting the moment I understand why I really wrote it. 3 months later&#8230; I still don&#8217;t know but I thought I should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian Tools: Method R Profiler, MR Tools &amp; MR Trace</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/24835/pythian-tools-method-r-profiler-mr-tools-mr-trace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with 100 talented database engineers is fun and there are lots going on &#8212; lots of exciting (and not so much) projects ongoing, huge amount of problems solved, mistakes made (and learned from), many unique (as well as routine) customer needs satisfied, many new (and old) methods applied, many good (and less so) tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying External Timing Data to Untimed Events</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/24447/applying-external-timing-data-to-untimed-events/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/24447/applying-external-timing-data-to-untimed-events/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>still</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or how to have an answer other than &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; when asked &#8220;How long does that take?&#8221;. Recently while working on a client site I discovered that it takes 30-90 seconds to make an ssh connection to one of the servers. Connections between servers for this client typically take &#60; 1 second, so the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important Things I&#8217;ve Learned at Hotsos 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/21831/important-things-ive-learned-at-hotsos-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwen Shapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hotsos is a blast. Easily the best technical Oracle conference. The speakers are terrific, the topics are cutting edge and the audience is experienced, intelligent and engaged. I&#8217;ve been to quiet a few conferences by now, and one of the things I noticed is that the best learning is rarely as organized as &#8220;I&#8217;ll go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Most of Exadata, revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Rahn of Oracle&#8217;s real-world performance group posted a technical review of an article I wrote last summer, entitled Making the Most of Oracle Exadata. I have a few comments on the technical concerns Greg raised. On the benefits of smart scans to improve buffer cache efficiency: indeed smart scans bypass the buffer cache entirely, [...]]]></description>
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