Nov 6: UKOUG Agenda

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

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#1 - Jeffrey Kemp said:
2006-11-07 12:31 - (Reply)

That line up almost makes me wish I was on the other side of the world.

#2 - Doug Burns said:
2006-11-07 12:39 - (Reply)

It took me a while to 'get' that comment until I realised you were posting from Oz ;-)

#3 - shrek 2006-11-07 13:29 - (Reply)

*sigh* mayby someday i'll make it there. if i can make it there i'll make it anywhere.;-)

#4 - vidya said:
2006-11-07 22:17 - (Reply)

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)

#5 - Daniel Fink 2006-11-08 06:09 - (Reply)

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

#6 - Doug Burns said:
2006-11-08 09:17 - (Reply)

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!

#7 - Alex Gorbachev said:
2006-11-11 23:04 - (Reply)

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.

#8 - Alex Gorbachev said:
2006-11-11 23:08 - (Reply)

"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

#9 - Doug Burns said:
2006-11-12 06:57 - (Reply)

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 ;-)

#10 - Doug Burns said:
2006-11-12 06:58 - (Reply)

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.


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