Training

My good friend (and personal hero) Cary Millsap is doing a series of one day classes around the world — Mastering Oracle Trace Data. One of them is conveniently scheduled in Birmingham Thursday next week right after the UKOUG Conference. It’s not far from the Birmingham ICC where the UKOUG Technology and Business Suite Conference [...]

Today is the last day for getting the early bird’s rate!

http://blog.tanelpoder.com/seminar/expert-oracle-exadata-virtual-conference/

Also, our book will be out on Monday!

We have been secretly planning something with Kerry Osborne – and now it’s official – we will host The First Exadata Virtual Conference in the World, on 3-4 August 2011.

This conference takes place a couple of weeks after our Expert Oracle Exadata book is published (on 18. July – check out the awesome new cover design). So, we thought it’d be a good idea to run this conference, where we can explain some things in a different format, do live demos and answer questions that attendees have.

On the first day Kerry and Randy will talk about some serious fundamentals of Exadata, like how Exadata Smart Scan Offloading works and how to make the IO resource manager work for you (especially important in mixed workload consolidated environments).

And on the second day we’ll dig even deeper, with Andy Colvin talking about how to survive Exadata patching (he has patched more Exadatas than anyone else I know) and me following up with some complex performance troubleshooting stories I’ve encountered recently (trust me – there’s a LOT of issues to troubleshoot ;-)

About the Conference:

Since its release, Oracle Exadata quickly became a hit. Due to the relative “youth” of Exadata technology and internal behavior changes introduced with frequent patch-sets, there’s not much up-to-date quality technical information and know-how available to public. This virtual conference brings you a chance to learn from the leading Exadata experts, from their experience of working with real Exadata environments, from Exadata V1 to the latest X2-8. Additionally, there is plenty of Q&A time scheduled, so you can also get answers to your Exadata-related questions.

The speakers are probably some of the most experienced Exadata consultants in the world, in the field of Exadata deployment, migration, performance, and troubleshooting. Also, Kerry, Randy and Tanel are the authors of the #2970a6; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href="http://blog.tanelpoder.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hcHJlc3MuY29tLzk3ODE0MzAyMzM5MjM=">Expert Oracle Exadata book published by Apress in July 2011.

Dates:

• 3-4 August 2011

Location:

• Online (or should I say “the Cloud” ;-)

Duration:

• 8am – 12pm (PST) on both days – 2 x 1.5h sessions on each day, with Q&A sessions and a break in between

Speakers:

• Kerry Osborne, Randy Johnson, Andy Colvin from Enkitec
• Tanel Poder from right here :-)

All of the speakers are hard-core hands-on professionals, having worked on many different real-life (production) Exadata environments of their clients. Enkitec dudes didn’t stop there, they bought a half rack for themselves, just for playing around with it. Yeah (+1 from me), some people buy a red hot Ferrari, some buy a red hot computer rack with an X on it :-)

Price:

• 375 USD (early bird until 22. July), 475 regular price

More information, abstracts and registration:

• http://blog.tanelpoder.com/seminar/expert-oracle-exadata-virtual-conference/

I don’t think you’ll find an Exadata learning opportunity like this from anywhere else (and any time soon), especially considering the price!

This conference is so hot, that one of the attendees managed to sign up to it even before I had published this page to the world! :-)

If you’ve troubleshooted (or tuned) RAC then you probably already know Riyaj Shamsudeen and his Orainternals blog & website (links below).

Anyway, since I started delivering my Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting classes some years ago, many people asked whether I would do a similar class for RAC. I had deliberately left out the RAC-specific stuff from my troubleshooting material, because it’s a very wide and complex topic and I feel like before trying to master RAC troubleshooting, you should master troubleshooting of regular single instance databases anyway. I realized that I didn’t have the time to build (and maintain) yet another set of trainig material, especially on so complex topic as RAC performance & troubleshooting. 

So, having seen Riyaj’s impressive work and his presentations at various conferences, I asked whether he would be interested in building a RAC troubleshooting class, going from fundamentals to advanced topics – and he said yes. By now we are that far that I’m happy to announce the first Advanced RAC online seminars by Riyaj Shamsudeen (split across two weeks of online sessions, 4-hours per day, in end of august and september).

We initially called the seminar “Advanced RAC Troubleshooting” but then realized, that there are some closely related non-troubleshooting topics to be covered, like fundamental concepts, internals and also how to configure RAC for performance (so that you wouldn’t have to troubleshoot performance later :-)

We’ll use the same infrastructure and seminar philosophy as I do in my own online seminars, it’s just that this is Riyaj’s material and he will deliver it too.

You can read more about the seminar content, dates and sign up at the seminars page:

Seminars:

• http://blog.tanelpoder.com/seminar/

Riyaj’s blog:

• http://orainternals.wordpress.com/

Riyaj’s website (articles, slides etc):

• http://www.orainternals.com

Let the RAC hacking begin! ;-)

First, a reminder – my Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting v2.0 online seminar starts next week already. Last chance to sign up, I can accept registrations until Sunday :-)

I won’t do another AOT seminar before Oct (or Nov) this year. More details and sign-up here:

• http://tech.e2sn.com/oracle-training-seminars

I have rescheduled my Advanced SQL Tuning and Partitioning & Parallel Execution for Performance seminars too. I will do them in September/October. Unfortunately I’m too busy right now to do them before the summer.

Public Appearances:

• I will be speaking at the UKOUG Exadata Special Event in London on 18th April
• I have submitted a few papers for Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco as well (end of Sep/beginning of Oct), all about Exadata. Let’s see how it goes, but I’ll be there anyway, which means that I’ll probably show up at the Oracle Closed World event too!

And that’s all the travel I will do this year…

Virtual Conferences:

I’ll soon announce the 2nd EsSN virtual conference too ;-)

Free online stuff:

Perhaps in a month or so I will do another hacking session (I’ll plan 2 hours this time, 1 hour isn’t nearly enough for going deep). The topic will probably be about low-level details of SQL plan execution internals… stay tuned!

tech.E2SN secret hacking session on Tuesday 22nd March:

Just in case you missed it – there’s still chance to sign up to my tomorrow’s ORA-4031 and shared pool hacking session. I initially planned to limit the attendees to 100 per event (as the limited GotoWebinar package is cheaper that way) but over 100 people had signed up for the US event on the day of announcement, even before it was 8am in California, so I figured I should invest a bit more and allow more people attend. So far over 500 people have signed up (total for both events). If you haven’t done so, you can sign up here:

• http://tech.e2sn.com/secret

Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting online seminar Deep Dives 1-5  on 11-15 April:

The next AOT deep dives (1-5) will start in 3 weeks, on 11-15 April. (and 6-10 will be on 9-13 May).

Check the details here:

• http://tech.e2sn.com/oracle-training-seminars

Blogs to check out:

Andrey Nikolaev has done some serious low-level research on Oracle latches and KGX mutexes and he also presented his work this year at Hotsos Symposium (I missed his session as I was stuck in JFK instead of attending the conference on that day):

• http://andreynikolaev.wordpress.com/

Porus Havewala is quite a Grid Control and OEM enthusiast. If you are into OEM & GC, check out his blog:

• http://enterprise-manager.blogspot.com/

Future events:

• I will be speaking at the UKOUG Exadata Special Event on 18th April
• I will announce some more Virtual Conferences pretty soon!!! Very interesting topics and good speakers – including (but not limited to) some serious Exadata technical contents!

Free stuff! Free stuff! Free stuff! :-)

The awesome dudes at E2SN have done it again! (and yes, Tom, this time the “we at E2SN Ltd” doesn’t mean only me alone ;-)

On Tuesday 22nd March I’ll hold two (yes two) Secret Oracle Hacking Sessions – about ORA-04031: unable to allocate x bytes of shared memory errors, cursor management issues and other shared pool related problems (like fragmentation). This event is free for all! You’ll just need to be fast enough to register, both events have 100 attendee limit (due to my GotoWebinar accont limitations).

I am going to run this online event twice, so total 200 people can attend (don’t register for both events, please). One event is in the morning (my time) to cater for APAC/EMEA region and the other session is for EMEA/US/Americas audience.

The content will be the same in both sessions. There will be no slides (you cant fix your shared pool problems with slides!) but there will be demos, scripts, live examples and fun (for the geeks among us anyway – others go and read some slides instead ;-)!

• Note that the live event is over by now, but you can see the recording from my Oracle Troubleshooting TV show :-)

Due to a lot interest I’m going to do another run of my Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting v2.0 Online Deep Dive seminars in April and May (initially I had planned to do it no earlier than Sep/Oct…)

Check the dates & additional info out here:

• http://tech.e2sn.com/oracle-training-seminars

P.S. People who already attended the AOT2 seminars last year – I will schedule the follow-up Q&A sessions in mid-March!