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While Oracle OpenWorld is still hot in our memories, I’m going to be presenting two of my OOW11 sessions at the Toronto Oracle User Group’s DD Day 2011 on 28-Oct-2011 — in just a bit over 2 weeks. Last time I presented for TOUG at their summer meeting in 2008 which makes it a tad over 3 years ago. It was a good fun and I’m looking forward to see many of you there again.

By the way, I think it’s quite a deal at $140 for non-members and $90 for TOUG members for a one day conference like that, especially if you are interested in the topics presented.

I have two sessions to present:
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It’s a busy summer at Pythian, with our continuing wave of speaking sessions at upcoming community and regional industry events.

Coming to a city near you, watch for Pythian presenting hot Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database topics:
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I just arrived to Minneapolis, MN and will be speaking tomorrow at the Twin Cities Oracle Users Group 2011 Winter Meeting. It’s the first time I’m speaking for this user group so I’m excited to meet the new audience. I will present one hour version of my Grid Infrastructure Internals session. Of course, no demos during presentation as it’s just enough to cover the theory slides but I’ll leave the demo as a homework as usual. :)

Big thanks to Klara Hribkova, Vice President of TCOUG, for picking me up at the airport and organizing a dinner. I’ve had a lovely meal — Bison Pot Roast — melting in my mouth.

I’m staying at Doubletree Hotel Minneapolis-Park Place. Nice and clean and very friendly staff but what’s interesting about this hotel is that they have DSL modems in the rooms so each connection is going via its own DSL line. Isn’t that cool? Read the rest of this entry . . .

For those of you in the New York City area, I’ll be speaking at the NYOUG joint BI/DW and Web SIG meeting. The topic will be a case study of Pythian’s Exadata implementation at LinkShare. It will be 6pm this Thursday, December 2, at the APRESS offices at 233 Spring Street, sixth floor. Previous notices did say fifth floor, but I can confirm it will indeed be the on the sixth. It’s free for NYOUG members and $10 for non-members. The NYOUG would like confirmations by November 30 to get an idea of numbers and how much pizza to order, so drop them a line at info@nyoug.org if you plan on attending.

Further info from the NYOUG website

If you can’t make it, recordings of my webinar on the same topic are available online as well.

Hello Birmingham!

It’s past Sunday midnight and I’m stuck in my room in the last couple hours finishing my slides for my masterclass tomorrow. Turns out that I’m presenting the very first session of the conference at 9am. I wish there is a keynote instead so that I could grab one more hour of sleep (it’s going to be deep into the night back home in Canada). Strange that the keynote was moved to Wednesday — I hope UKOUG has really good reason for that!

My two hours masterclass will start at the same time as Tom Kyte’s a-la keynote session — what a competition. On the other hand, there is no other sessions in server technology so I expect that folks without interest of database development will automatically end up in my session. I’m in Hall 5 – quite large room. Is it the second biggest room after the Hall 1?

I will need to work hard to keep the audience… maybe I shouldn’t plan for any breaks to make sure I don’t let folks slip out to the next sessions like James Morles’ Sane SAN 2010 or Jeremy Schneider’s Large Scale ASM.

My masterclass is based on the slides that I presented at the Oracle OpenWorld few months ago which, in turn is reworked session on Oracle Clusterware internals that I’ve done number of times as long session with demos. I thought updating this material to 11gR2 would be easy… Boy was I wrong!
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For those of you who weren’t able to attend my webinar last week “Implementing Exadata: the results are in, recordings are now available online.

They’re at the same link as the original webinar registration: http://bit.ly/exadatawebinar2.

If you’re just joining us, recordings of my previous webinar Implementing Exadata: Strategies for Success are also available, as for other webinars

Update: recordings are now available

Following up on my earlier webinar Implementing Oracle Exadata – Strategies for Success, I’ll be giving another webinar to present the results of the Exadata implementation at LinKShare. I’ll be talking about actual performance results, our zero-downtime go-live, compression experiences, and performance tuning in an Exadata environment.

The webinar will be on Thursday, November 4 at 12 noon, eastern time (the time in your timezone).

Registration link

It looks like our lucky recipients of plane rides with Sean D. Tucker had a great time. Pictures are below. Thanks again to Team Oracle for facilitating the flights.
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Update 14-September:: if you’re looking for one more reason to attend, one lucky attendee will receive a 45-minute flight on the Oracle Challenger with Sean D. Tucker, courtesy of Team Oracle and Pythian.

As I work on putting together slides, I’d like to remind you all of my Oracle OpenWorld 2010 presentation, a customer case study migrating a complex data warehouse environment to Exadata. I’ll be presenting along with Michael Aldrich of LinkShare and Aiman al-Khammash of Oracle, and focusing on our own experience with Exadata, lessons learned, and advice for others choosing to implement Exadata.

The session will begin at half past noon on Monday in Moscone South, room 308. Here’s a link to import it into your calendar in ICS format

My article Making the Most of Oracle Exadata in the August 2010 issue of the NoCOUG Journal has come out. It covers Exadata’s feature set, and then dives deeper, discussing how to make the best use of its capabilities. For those of you not subscribers of the print edition, it’s also available electronically.
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