Another late shift today followed a busy weekend attending an evening wedding reception on Friday and a friend’s 40th birthday party in Newcastle on Saturday night, so that closing part of the Recovery Design series might have to wait for a day or two. I’m also in a growing panic about next Tuesday’s presentations as I’ve not left myself enough time for all of the improvements I’d had in mind. I could do the presentations tomorrow if I had to, but I plan to work my backside off this week at nights to get them closer to my intentions. Next weekend’s going to be taken up with more unavoidable social events, including people sleeping in my server room 🙁
Here is my current plan for next week but it’ll probably change. It usually does.
Tuesday
09:30 – 10:30 Opening Technical Keynote: “What’s Coming Next?” by Tom Kyte
11:00 – 12:00 Extending Oracle 10g Grid Control – New Metrics, Targets and Plugins by Alexander Gorbachev
12:10 – 12:55 What They Didn’t Print in the DOC – Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture HA Best Practices by Larry Carpenter
13:50 – 14:35 Understanding Logical I/O by Daniel Fink
14:45 – 15:30 Tracing PX Slaves by Me
16:00 – 16:45 How Many Slaves – Parallel Execution and the Magic of 2 by Me
16:55 – 17:40 Parallelism and Scalability by Joel Goodman
17:45 – 18:30 A brief, but practical, introduction to Oracle analytic functions by Peter Scott
20:00 – Blogger meet-up
Wednesday
11:00 – 12:00 Connect Time Failover and Data Guard by Dev Nayak
12:10 – 12:55 Cooler Grid Solutions with AMD64 by Robert W Gomer
14:10 – 14:55 Advanced Partitioning Hints by Martin Jensen
15:05 – 15:50 Advanced Research Techniques in Oracle – Part I by Tanel Poder
16:25 – 17:25 Advanced Research Techniques in Oracle – Part II by Tanel again
17:35 – 18:35 Average Active Sessions – the magic metric?
18:40 – 19:30 Exhibition Drinks – Exhibition Hall
Thursday
09:00 – 09:45 Oracle Data Guard – No Compromise Disaster Recovery by Larry Carpenter
09:55 – 10:40 DUDE – Where’s my data ? – by Kurt Van Meerbeeck
11:15 – 12:15 Run your own Oracle database benchmarks by Steve Shaw
14:25 – 15:10 Temporal Databases – Managing Time Varying Data by Robert Squire
15:40 – 16:25 A Problem for every Solution by Carel-Jan Engel
16:35 – 17:35 Introducing the Flexible Database Cluster Architecture for Large-Scale Server Consolidation by Kevin Closson
17:45 – 18:45 Featured Speaker – Simon Weston – OBE, Falklands War Hero – Hall 1
18:45 – 21:30 Focus Pubs – Hall 4
Friday
09:00 – 09:45 Performance and Scalability Enhancements in Oracle 10g and 10gR2 by Tanel Poder
10:15 – 11:00 Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Performance Diagnosis Update by Graham Wood
11:10 – 11:55 Tuning a Critical Batch Suite – 12 techniques from a difficult period of my life by Bill Ferrari
13:10 – 15:10 Creating and Interpreting Basic Block Dumps by Joel Goodman
15:15 – Collapse
That line up almost makes me wish I was on the other side of the world.
It took me a while to ‘get’ that comment until I realised you were posting from Oz 😉
*sigh* mayby someday i’ll make it there. if i can make it there i’ll make it anywhere.😉
that seems like an interesting set of sessions( I am sure there are more than few of us who wish we could be there) – Logical I/O’s are something I have started making a conscious effort to observe during my query tunning sessions – “Understanding Logical I/O by Daniel Fink” sound interesting : but how much of Logical I/O as a DBA can we tune for????(I dont have the answer ….but in the process of figuring this out)
As DBAs we cannot tune for logical i/o (lio). LIOs are the result of query activity, application configuration and business process scheduling. By understanding lio, we can better advise our clients (users, developers, managers) on the impact of proper design and sql on a system.
Several years ago, Kirti Deshpande and I crossed into unknown territory and traced logical i/o. This is totally unsupported and undocumented (even internally to Oracle it seems), but very enlightening. We presented at the Hotsos Symposium in 2004. It’s not often that we start off a presentation by saying “We really don’t know what we are talking about.” to say nothing of contradicting something that Cary Millsap (host of the symposium and one of the inspirations for the research) had published (I presented our research to Cary prior to our presentation and he recognized the error in a most gracious and professional manner).
The version I am presenting at UKOUG (and will post to my site later) is a high level discussion of the basics of logical i/o, how read consistency and array size impact it and the events to perform tracing.
Oh…Doug…I’m the session chair for your presentation…shall I download Tom’s picture of you at the DBForum? Or do you promise to never, ever, never, ever publish a picture of my bum????
Cheers Big Ears!
Dan
Oh…Doug…I’m the session chair for your presentation…shall I download Tom’s picture of you at the DBForum? Or do you promise to never, ever, never, ever publish a picture of my bum????
Consider a cast-iron promise made!
I’m going to miss some of the best presentations on the first day. 🙁
On the other hand, it means that I’ll probably have relatively small audience on mines – that would make my job easier and makes me less nervous speaking first time. 🙂
The good news that at least one of my sessions won’t be empty unless Doug changes his mind. Doug, how comes you swapped Cary speech on some newbie? 😉 I guess there would be not many people like you.
Doug, how comes you swapped Cary speech on some newbie?
Truthfully? I’ve seen Cary’s presentation before 😉
It would be an outstanding presentation that would make me skip his otherwise 😉
“I’m also in a growing panic about next Tuesday’s presentations as I’ve not left myself enough time for all of the improvements I’d had in mind”
Can you imagine my level of panic then? =8-0
I’m sure it’ll be alright on the night (morning) but I must admit, three presentations is a lot to take on. I’ve already done both of mine in some form before, so much of the work was already done.