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I’ll be giving a webinar about Exadata implementation, where I’ll be talking about Exadata features and how best to use them. I’ll also be sharing some lessons learned from my own implementation experience.

The webinar will be on Wednesday August 11 at high noon eastern time. Note that this is a change from the previous date.

To register, visit https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/171889707. For more Pythian webinars, visit http://www.pythian.com/library/webinars/.

This is my first mobile post so please excuse any typos. I must admit though that T-Mobile 3G is _fast_.

When we founded Pythian Europe a year ago, we had, as former Oracle employees, a rather black-and-white view of the database world. There was the Oracle database; and then “The Others.”

Here at Pythian, though, we learned that the database world is more colorful than that, and very dynamic. Of course there are passionate debates between our Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server teams over whose DBMS is better. These discussions, however, are friendly and respectful, and when it comes to a concrete situation, the winner is always the customer—his or her business needs and circumstances decide.

We learned a lot about the fascinating history of MySQL and more details about its features from Nicklas Westerlund and Danil Zburivsky, MySQL experts and members of Pythian Europe. Nicklas helped with the migration of a 1 TB Oracle RDB database on OpenVMS to MySQL on Linux. And there’s our Australian colleagues—see Alex’s blog about the Australian Webinar.

Paul Vallée, Pythian’s founder and Executive Chairman really opened our eyes. Paul talks about Oracle’s 11G features with the same enthusiasm he has for MySQL’s federated architecture, or for SQL Server’s peer-to-peer replication technology. You could hardly find anybody who presents his visionary views of the new technology trends like cloud computing, virtualization, or server consolidation with such a deep understanding of the topics.

Here is your opportunity—especially those of you in Europe,the Middle East, or Africa—to confer with Paul Vallée on Thursday, June 4, 2009 12:00 PM–1:00 PM CEST (11AM–12:00 PM GMT) in a free webinar, Database Platform Migration. Read the rest of this entry . . .

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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