Oracle Closed World 2010

Here's what we know so far:

1. There will be FREE BEER and a late lunch courtesy of our hosts: Miracle and Embarcadero Technologies.

2. Conference Hours and Living Agenda (this may change daily so check back often):

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Monday, September 20: 1PM to 4PM

1-2 PM: Keynote Speaker Arup Nanda
Cache Fusion Demystified
Cache Fusion the fundamental to performance in RAC by reducing the need to go to disk for the data and getting it from the memory of another instance directly. But it is also a source of a lot of mystery, myths and misconceptions.
Full Abstract

2-3 PM: Keynote Speaker Tanel Poder
This session doesn't have any slides, but Tanel will show you lots of (undocumented) ways to hack Oracle instead. Some of this stuff is actually useful, some is more fun ;-)    Topics will range from how to read systemstate dumps, how to perform in-memory conditional tracing and how to trace a single SQL etc as time permits! More on Tanel's thought leadership here: http://tech.e2sn.com and his blog http://blog.tanelpoder.com
Full Abstract

3-4 PM: Keynote Speaker Riyaj Shamsudeen will present on RAC Advanced Trouble Shooting. http://orainternals.wordpress.com

Also on the Agenda for Monday:

Karl Arao will spend 5 to 10 minutes on each of the following topics:

Graphing the AAS with Perfsheet a la Enterprise Manager
http://karlarao.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/graphing-the-aas-with-perfsheet-a-la-enterprise-manager/

Linear Regression with AAS
http://karlarao.tiddlyspot.com/#r2project
 

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Tuesday, September 21: 1PM to 4PM

1:30 - 2:30 PM: Keynote Speaker Kyle Hailey
Database Performance Made Easy Through Graphics
Average Active Sessions (AAS) Formulas, Interpreting Load Charts and Visual SQL Tuning (VST)
Full Abstract

Also on the Agenda for Tuesday:

Martin Nash will present a 5-Minute presentation "Helping MOS to Help Me", which is about diagnosing the cause of an ORA-600 error and then working around the error until a patch is available/applied. Obviously it's not applicable to every ORA-600, but the approach to identifying the source of the problem is Martin feels is worth sharing. http://oraganism.wordpress.com/author/martinpaulnash/

Arjen Visser will present a 5-Minute presentation on how to use DBvisit to implement a standby database without Data Guard. When using Oracle Standard Edition and Standard Edition One, Data Guard is not available. Dbvisit can be used as an alternative to implement and managing standby databases to ensure complete protection for your primary database. This is a quick overview of the Dbvisit solution. http://blog.dbvisit.com  

OPEN MIC - 5-MINUTES-OF-FAME AND 5-MINTUES-OF-HELP

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Wednesday, September 22: 1PM to 4PM

AWARDS!
 

1PM - 2PM Keynote Marc Fielding will be expanding on his "official" session last Monday. Naturally, he'll be talking about the aspects not for public consumption.

In this session, Pythian offers a real-world example of migrating a 17-server, 68-partition IBM DB2 environment to a geographically distributed Oracle Exadata V2/ Oracle Database Machine environment and the strategy for success, from planning through execution. Learn the significant business and performance advantages of the integrated Oracle Database Machine/Oracle Exadata technology, including reduced costs, shorter deployment time, superior performance, increased functionality, and streamlined support. Experiences with hybrid columnar compression, integrating real-time data updates from multiple sources, performance tuning, and 24/7/365 high availability are discussed, with pitfalls to avoid and best practices.

Marc Fielding is senior consultant with Pythian's Advanced Technology group, where he specializes in high availability, scalability, and performance tuning. He has worked with Oracle database products over the past nine years, from version 7.3 up to 11gR2. His experience across the entire enterprise application stack allows him to provide reliable, scalable, fast, creative, and cost-effective solutions to Pythian's diverse client base.

3PM - 4PM Keynote Speaker Kevin Closson will present on SMT and Flash

Also on the Agenda for Wednesday:

Gwen Shapira will talk convincingly about webscale, /dev/null      

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3. Check out the Overview section of this website, then tell us what you'd like to talk about and when, and we'll sort it all out. Righ here. Virtually. Or send an email to elias.terman@embarcadero.com