Upgrading Cern IT to 11g

This week I was in Geneva again to deliver another compressed course for the IT department of CERN and again it was just a pleasure to squeeze a five day training into three days. These CERN people are so highly motivated and hungry for new features. It is always fun to teach them.

I was especially pleased to see that almost all of the delegates had already attented at least one or two trainings from me last year, so we were already familiar with each other.

Since I did not have the chance to attend the UK Oracle Usergroup meeting it was nice to have Luca Canali again in the class. He had delivered a speach about the ASM internal  in Birmingham last December and I would have really loved to listen to it. He is one of the few persons I know who can really tell about the limits of ASM from real life experience.

Also I was so happy to meet Christopher Lambert again. He just seems to know everything about Oracle Enterprise Manager and I always learn from him.

Here are a few snapshots from the classroom I have taken with my cellphone.

 I hope that I was able to meet their expectations once again and will be invited again.

It is a great honor for me to deliver for you guys!

Cern testing 10.2.0.4 features

Last week I deliver another specially condensed training for CERN. Again I had a very strong group od DBAs who gave me a hard time with their questions.

  Elzbieta Gajewska 
is an outstandingly fast learning young computer scientist from Poland. She was already in my RAC course a few months ago.  And again she asked me brilliant questions, some of  them could be good for challenging the Oaktable Network.

Some of the delegates are already taking part in the second class from me. It is always fun to deliver a course for CERN since it is never boring since these people are so highly motivated.

And again I met Anton Topurov
who is already testing with 11g in CERN and has also the Beta Version of the yet to come soon 10.2.0.4. patch already. But he does not talk about it yet. 
He also was in my RAC class recently.

I am very greateful that he has managed to get me into a group of people who can visit the CMS experiment.

RAC for CERN

This week I am delivering RAC 10g for CERN  
I am teaching a group of 16 DBAs
who are responsible for the Oracle clusters @ CERN.

The training takes place at the in the
  World Trade Center in Geneva
where Oracle Education still has some facilities.

At the end of the course Philipe,
 one of these hackers surprised me with

SIX different kinds of Belgium beer
which he had organized to convince me that there also is good beer
produced in his home country.
And I had to admitt that he was right which I did not know before!!!

So we had a little party at the end of the class…
I just love these little socializing events with my students when work is done!
This was also a good preparation for my 11g course in Brussels in three weeks.

Certifying CERN again on 10g

This week I have delivered a workshop on backuo and recovery for Oracle University in Geneva.

Next week I will also be in Geneva at the World Trade Center and teach a bunch of DBAs working for CERN again.

This is going to be fun I guess. We will squeeze 10 days of normal training into five days which is really challenging since these guys use to be so advanced in dealing with really large amounts of data.

When CERN will start its experiments some time later this year they will have a throughput of terabytes/second comming in and their database will grow to a size of 2 digit petabytes fastly.

I am really looking foreward to having a look at the environment there.

=;-)

Hope that you liked the seminar -… I did!

Finished my INSIDE ORACLE Seminar
            with 35 delegates
yesterday @ The Moevenpick Hotel

     in Istanbul

I would like to say thank you very much to Leyla Alpaslan & Gökhan Uğuroğlu
from Oracle University Turkey for inviting me to Istanbul and organizing this event.
I had not expected to find such such a well organized event in such a brilliant location
- they had produces  real Oracle Courseware of my sysdba slides  

- there was always coffee and deliciouse paistries available
It was only that at the end it got a little hot in the room, but this was my fault because I had told the hotel staff that it is too cold instead of too warm in Turkish.
I must polish up my Turkish again. Forgot so much over the years. 

INSIDE ORACLE seminar

This week I have delivered my INSIDE ORACLE special seminar for the first time.
The seminar is a two day event which deals with Oracle 10g key features and upgrade issues.
I had 18 delegates with different backgrounds who were highly interested in memory management, new performance tuning techniques and backup strategies.
In between the paticipants had the opportunity to test some of the features hands on in the seminar room where we had a munber of system instaled with Oracle 10g database.
I have received a number of emails with very positive feedback in the meentime.
This seminar is available internationnally from now on and I already have the first bookings for it.
In May I will be delivering in Germany and Turkey and Greece hopefully as well.
And there are other talks going on in the background at the moment.

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INSIDE ORACLE 10g special seminar

At the moment I am preparing a special two day seminar about Oracle 10g.
I have entirely created it on my own.

Its title will be INSIDE ORACLE 10g
and I will deliver it for the first time on
February 19th./20th. in Zurich.

on the first day of seminar I deal with the following topics:
- Memory Management:
- manual & automatic Shared Memory management
- manual & automatic Process Memory management
- temporary tablespace usage
- managing optimizer statistics and upgrade issues

On the second day I will talk about:
- New Performance Tuning Approach in 10g
- New RMAN Features and how they work
- The new ORACLE recommended backup strategy
- FLASHBACK Functionalities in 10g

The seminar will take place at Digicomp Academy in Zurich
and is handled by Oracle University.
The number of seats is limited to 30.
The prise is 1700 CHF for the two days.
There are already several bookings placed.

If you are interested in attentding you can book simply
through my company sysdba database consulting GmbH
by cutting and pasting the below lines, filling them in with your data and sending them to
sysdba database consulting GmbH by FAX
under the following number: +41 56 470 2264

Order Form for the two day seminar INSIDE ORACLE 10g
on February 19th./20th. 2007 in Zurich:

Yes, I want to enroll
LAST NAME………………………………………………………
FIRST NAME…………………………………………………….
COMPANY…………………………………………………………
Number of Seats…………………………………………………
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Certifying CERN again

This week I am in Geneva again,
delivering a special certification event for Oracle University.
Again a bunch of DBAs want to get certified for Oracle 10g.
We compress a pensum of 10 normal education days into 5.
I guess that again this will be no problem for these guyes -
they are CERN!
I am looking foreward to these delicious Sushis in the basement of Cornavin Station.

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Teaching CERN how to pump the data

This week I deliver a special training in Geneva for a bunch of DBAs from the CERN.
These guyes are really special.

They are always a few steps ahead with their questions.
Very advanced students! They really give me a hard time.
And we have a lot of fun.
Of course they are more interested in the internals and the background than in GUIs, which makes it more challenging and more fun to teach them.

They told me that CERN is stiil in the testing phase and their large databases are in the terabytes at the moment.

Once they will go life with the experiments they will have databases in the petabytes range.
Of course they use ASM for the storage because they have periodes of very high high volume throughput. They also use Grid Control and of course everything is clustered at the CERN. Only RAC databases with 6 nodes for each cluster.
Today I will demonstrate the datapump and ASM and how to migrate a database into an ASM storage with RMAN.

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I will present @ Italian Oracle User Group in Parma

On December 1st. I will deliver a presentation of
Oracle’s new recommended backup strategy
at the annual meeting of the Italian Oracle User Group in Parma.

I will use two ASM diskgroups,
and migrate a database from file system into the ASM storage using RMAN.

Then I will demonstrate how we can get around a full restore
by switching to an image copy of the database in the
flash recovery area, which I have incrementally updated.

Looking foreward to Parma!

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