Speaking

It is a great pleasure to announce the next Performance Days! This year the event will take place the 13-14 September in Zurich.

Given that detailed information about the event as well as online subscription are available at https://trivadis.com/performance-days-2017, in this short post I limit myself to thanking and pointing out who the speakers that accepted my invitation are:

In the past I gave a number of 1-day seminars about the new performance features available in Oracle Database 12c Release 1. On the 22nd of February, for the first time, I’ll give an updated version of that seminar with content about both Release 1 and Release 2. Note that because there is more content, I extended it from one day to two days.

In the last 14 months I delivered a dozen of presentations covering the In-Memory Column Store. During many of them, I spent most of the time showing the audience several demos. The aim of this post is to share with you the scripts and a recording (MP4) of those demos.

Warning about Demos

The recordings show the results of running the scripts on an Exadata system. The performance figures are intended only to explain and compare different kinds of processing and to give you a feel for their impact. Since every system and every application has its own characteristics, the relevance of using each technique might be very different, depending on where it’s applied. Simply put, the scripts were engineered to clearly show specific behaviors.

In case you want to run the scripts, to setup the environment run imcs_prepare_schema.sql.

Population

On 10 December 2015 I’ll give an online training entitled Oracle Database 12c – New Performance Features. This short post provides key information about it.

Description

With every new release of Oracle Database, a number of features aimed at improving performance are introduced. It goes without saying that 12.1 is no exception to the rule. Notably, it introduces key improvements in three areas.

Trivadis, the company I work for, just opened a new branch in Denmark (the press release, in German, is available here). On the 14th of April (09:00-15:00) takes place, in the Oracle’s office in Ballerup, the opening event. Two colleagues of mine and I will be there to deliver the following presentations:

Big Data versus Conventional Techniques – Decision Criteria (Peter Welker, Senior Principal Consultant)

Just a quick note that I posted slides for the 2 talks I did at ECO in Raleigh this week:

Keynote: Creative Problem Solving (for Oracle Systems)

In-Memory In Action (slides by Tanel Poder) :)

Great crowd. I really enjoyed myself.

Note: You can also find other presentations on my Whitepapers/Presentations page via the link at the top of the screen.

I spoke at a one day DOUG meeting yesterday. It was pretty cool. Very small intimate group of about 50. The speakers were Nitin Vengurlekar, Charles Kim, Cary Millsap and myself. All are Ace Directors and either work at Viscosity or Enkitec. As a bonus, Tanel Poder showed up to weigh in on some open discussion. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I promised the group I would post my slides and a zip file with some of my scripts that I demoed. So here it is (click on the image to download a zip file with PDF and scripts):