Rolta TUSC Speaks at Oracle OpenWorld '10

September 19 - 23, 2010

Moscone Convention Center - San Francisco, CA

Oracle OpenWorld is the world's largest and most important conference for Oracle technologists, business users, and partners. This annual gathering is the best place to meet live and in person with experts, enthusiasts, business leaders, and innovators from every industry around the globe to network, learn, and celebrate your role in the technology that runs your business

Rolta TUSC has been honored by being chosen to present 9 sessions during the conference during both the SIG day on Sunday 9/19 as well as the general session times, Monday 9/20 - Thursday 9/23.

Our presentations will include:

IOUG: Tuning Oracle at the Block Level--Beginners, Go Away! - Database
Sunday, September 19, 1:30PM
This session looks at how blocks move from disk to memory; how they become current blocks; how they become consistent read (CR) versions; and why the move toward 64-bit technology, memory-resident databases, and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)/grid makes this even more important to understand. It covers these topics:

I. Why you should understand some block-level concepts

a. Move toward memory-resident databases
b. Move toward Oracle RAC/grid computing
c. This is where the problems are hiding

II. Block-level concepts

a. Current, CR, and other blocks
b. Versions of blocks
c. Over the years
d. Delayed block cleanout
e. Blocks and the grid

III. Useful scripts
IV. Summary

IOUG Panel: BI/EPM Implementations--From Strategy to Success - Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management
Sunday, September 19, 4:00PM
This panel discussion involves customer/user group members, alliance partners, and Oracle employees. It covers various practical aspects of ensuring the success of BI/EPM implementations, using real-world examples. In this highly interactive session, attendees will be encouraged to ask thought-provoking questions.

IOUG: Oracle Recovery Manger (RMAN) 11g New Features in Release 1 and Release 2 - Database
Sunday, September 19, 4:00PM
This session covers new Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) features and their use for 11g Release 1 and Release 2. The features include archive log management improvements, network-aware DUPLICATE, fast incremental backups on physical standby, improved backup compression performance, improved integration with Oracle Data Guard, optimized undo backup, read-only transported tablespaces backup 11g Release 2 duplicate without connection to the target database, Oracle RMAN backup capabilities to Web storage services, automatic block repair, new duplicate options, enhanced tablespace point-in-time recovery (recovery of a dropped tablespace), and new SET NEWNAME clauses and format option.

Oracle Database 11g: Partitioning, Savings, Better Performance and Management - Database
Monday, September 20, 3:30PM
Using new features of Oracle Database 11g in partitioning and advanced compression, we can maximize cost savings and performance without sacrificing ease of management. New partitioning features can help us improve performance, in combination with Oracle Advanced Compression, to reduce disk storage costs and eke out some further performance improvements. This session shows examples and demonstrates cost savings, performance gains, and management ease.

Preparing for the Oracle Exadata - Database
Monday, September 20, 5:00PM
This presentation teaches you the basics of the Oracle Exadata from a beginner's perspective. It goes over the advantages of using this hardware and how its components provide the speed you'll realize in implementing it. Consolidating is the #1 way companies are saving money and eliminating datacenter complexity. The Oracle Exadata provides both benefits. The session also shows how you can prepare NOW so that you will be ready to implement the Oracle Exadata in your next upgrade, migration, or consolidation.

Leading-Edge Solutions for the Downstream Oil and Gas Industry - Oil and Gas and Natural Resources Industry
Tuesday, September 21, 11:00AM
These are unprecedented times in the downstream oil and gas industry. Downstream companies need to have visibility into their refining processes, ensure 24/7 operations, increase nonfuel revenue, and strengthen relationships with their customers around the globe. In this session, learn how Oracle?s business intelligence solutions and Oracle Transportation Management can help downstream oil companies operate in a safe manner, lower costs, and increase their global and regional competitiveness.

Effective and Proven Approaches to Oracle Database Tuning - Database
Wednesday, September 22, 11:30AM
Our application is slow; can you check what is wrong with the database? Our database is suddenly slow, but nothing has changed--fix it! Please help tune my query. We have queries eating up lots of CPU; can you tune the database, because we can't rewrite any of the code? If you are a DBA wondering where to start for answers to such questions, attend this session, which includes real-world case studies for each of these cases and effective approaches with Oracle tools such as Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor, Automatic Workload Repository, Automated Session History, Automatic SQL Tuning, Automatic Statistics Management, SQL Performance Analyzer, and Automatic Memory Management (10g and 11g).

Tuning the Oracle Grid - Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager
Wednesday, September 22, 4:45PM
This session presents the top 10 tips for tuning your architecture for grid computing. The main focus is to show many Oracle Grid Control screen shots so the attendees can see the depth of the product.

• Know the basics; introduction to Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)
• Oracle direction
• Market direction: consolidation
• Grid basics: start with Oracle RAC
• Grid basics: scaling it
• The interconnect and block coordination
• Tuning quick tips using Statspack and Automatic Workload Repository reports
• Use Oracle Grid Control for monitoring
• Oracle Grid Control for multinode systems
• Use Grid Control to tune systems.

The Best Oracle Database 11g Release 1 and Release 2 New Tuning Features - Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager
Thursday, September 23, 3:00PM
This presentation looks at which new Oracle Database 11g tuning features should be investigated for use. Most of the features it covers are for DBAs, but a few are outside that realm. The session includes simple and more detailed examples that show the basic functionality of the following new features:

• Invisible index
• SQL plan management
• Oracle Database 11g SQL Repair Advisor feature
• Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) enhancements
• Interval partitioning
• Optimizer enhancements