Tuning Oracle9i/10g using Statspack & AWR (7.18MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 02/15/2007 Abstract: What is a quick way to monitor, find and solve performance problems? Statspack & the 10g AWR Report are quick ways to solve many of your performance issues that plague your system. This presentation will show how to use statspack to evaluate and fix issues related to the top 5 wait events, load profile, instance efficiency ratios, wait events and wait histograms, latch waits, top SQL, instance activity, file i/o issues. We will also see how statspack compares to AWR Report and some of the additions that AWR Report gives you over statspack even though 80% is the same information as statspack. Come to this session to understand how to quickly solve performance issues without doing a system evaluation that is more costly the system itself. This includes both proactive tuning based on findings and reactive tuning based on wait events. We will also look at block level dumps and the rare case that you would use them for tuning.

Exceptional Leadership - Be the Uncommon Leader (3.39MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 02/15/2007 Abstract: How do you really succeed in your profession and in life? This presentation focuses on some of traits that can help elevate you to the next level. Those leadership skills discussed include: integrity, moral courage, physical courage, self control, enthusiasm, knowledge, initiative, respect, tact, loyalty, unselfishness and humility. It also focuses on mentoring the next generation and leading the next historic wave.

Tuning the Oracle Grid (10.6MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 02/15/2007 Abstract: This presentation will show the top ten tips when tuning your architecture for grid computing. Oracle has come a long when from when they first introduced clustering. The tools continue to improve and the installation continues to get better and easier. The main focus is to show many of the Grid Control screen shots so that the attendee can see the depth of the product.