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Blue Gecko is proud to sponsor the venue and refreshments for the Western Washington Oracle Users Group (WWOUG) meeting this Thursday (4/29/2010) from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm.

Guest speaker Tim Gorman, an author, Oracle ACE, and Oak Table member will present Scaling to Infinity: Partitioning Data Warehouses on Oracle.

Please register for this event if you plan to attend.

Location:
Seattle Public Library downtown branch, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle
Room 2, Level 4 (Wright/Ketcham Meeting Room)

Agenda:
5:30 – 6:00 Refreshments and WWOUG announcements
6:00 – 7:00 Tim Gorman: Scaling to Infinity
7:00 – 7:30 Open networking

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Jeremiah Wilton’s presentation shows how to use Oracle 11g Real Application Testing to quantify effect of system and database configuration changes.  As an example, he uses Real Application Testing to validate the Automatic Advisor recommendations, and uncovers some interesting results.

Check out the presentation on our whitepaper page.

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In this entertaining presentation, Jeremiah Wilton demonstrates creative ways to induce Oracle failures with the objective of learning how to detect, assess and diagnose problems.  Some of the self-induced failures are quite amusing, and will allow the reader to have some fun with their DBA friends.

Check out the presentation on our whitepaper page.

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Mostly resulting from optimizer changes, version upgrade instability has resulted in widespread reluctance by Oracle customers to adopt new versions in a timely manner.  Real Application Testing provides the greatest benefit to customers of all the new features in 11g.  The importance of Real Application Testing to customers is so great primarily because it helps assure success through major changes, such as version and patchset upgrades.

Check out the paper on the Blue Gecko whitepaper page.

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Most organizations running Oracle today are thinking about availability to some degree.  For many, it is to their great dismay that they find that average availability is no higher after implementing a high-availability architecture such as RAC or dataguard.  Paradoxically, many organizations find that their availability numbers actually get worse.  How can this be, and why did they spend all that money if the result is a negative impact on availability?

Find out by downloading the paper from our whitepaper page.

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Oracle’s RAC-centric marketing sells Oracle short by ignoring a broad spectrum of huge advances in 9i and 10g. These features, including logical standby (part of DataGuard), streams, improved multimaster replication, flashback query, Cross-platform transportable tablespaces, improved RMAN (including the pipe interface), constitute the great adaptability for any size organization that is Oracle’s greatest strength.

Check out the paper on Blue Gecko’s whitepaper page.

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SELECT’s Executive Editor Paul Dorsey asked Amazon.com’s lead DBA, Jeremiah Wilton about helping administer one of the largest e-Commerce databases in the world.  Check out the interview on the Blue Gecko whitepaper page.

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The consequence of large numbers of Oracle professionals taking advice without understanding it has been a great profusion of theories and ideas with no basis in either fact or experience.  These theories have a way of spreading like wildfire, in the form of “common wisdom” and “best practices.”  Unsound ideas abound only because not enough people challenge them.

This document available on Blue Gecko’s whitepaper page is a collection of short articles, come accompanied by proofs, that attempt to point out, then debunk, a number of common misconceptions and misunderstandings, as well as just plain bad advice, that few people have stepped forward to challenge.

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