Presented by: Craig Shallahamer, Founder, Orapub I attended Craig’s second presentation, this on In-Memory Undo (IMU). This was another great presentation on a feature I have to admit I really knew nothing about. In a nutshell, “traditional” undo uses physical blocks, just like any other segment. If a query needs to read an undo block to … [Read more...]
Breaking Oracle
Presented by: Jeremiah Wilton, Blue Gecko Jeremiah’s patented Breaking Oracle seminar – a one-hour condensed version of a full-day class – was again a huge hit. To a packed room, Jeremiah mercilessly rained spins, hangs, corruption, and a variety of other Oracle failures and disasters on a poor, unsuspecting test 11hg database, then demonstrated … [Read more...]
Enterprise Database Security – A Practical Example
I attended this presentation without a lot of practical hands-on knowledge of using OID with either the database or E-Business Suite. Blue Gecko has several SOX-beholden customers, and we plan to implement OID for EBS soon; centralized control for database accounts would also be a huge boon. … [Read more...]
Deriving Optimal Configuration Values Using 11g Database Replay
Presented by: Jeremiah Wilton, Blue Gecko OK, so, no, I’m not going to steal Jeremiah’s thunder here. What I am going to do is post his presentation, and give you a teaser: All bias aside, Real Application Testing is a truly revolutionary 11g feature that every DBA should get to know. As Jeremiah demonstrates, its uses go far beyond planning … [Read more...]
Introduction to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Plus
Presented by: Adam Lee, Product Manager, Oracle My first session of the day was a little dry. The overview was very typical Oracle stuff: A bunch of slides displaying block-pyramids with each block sporting important terms like “INFRASTRUCTURE” and “ABSTRACTION ENGINE.” I was hoping to see potential support impact on Blue Gecko. Eventually, … [Read more...]
Running Oracle in the Amazon EC2 Cloud
This is a subject I have much interest in and something we are working on very hard at Blue Gecko; Amazon is positioning itself as an Oracle partner and leader in the Oracle/cloud space and I want to know anything I can about what other people are doing, which is why this presentation was not what I was hoping it would be. The gentleman presenting … [Read more...]