Gearing up for OOW 2010

It’s that time of the year again,  and as always I’m looking forward (really!) to Oracle Open World.  I’ve been every year since 1998 and this year looks like being the biggest ever – which boggles the imagination considering how big last year was!

This year I’m giving two technical sessions, hosting an unconference, doing a book signing and – together with the inimitable Steven Feuerstein, hosting a Quest evening event.   In between that I hope to attend as many sessions as I can and catch up with friends a colleagues.  Here are the details of my sessions and other appearances:

Tuesday  11:00 am - Hadoop & NoSQL unconference session

Mason room, PARC55, 55 Cyril Magnin Street 

Unconference sessions are run by the attendees and are Powerpoint-free.  I proposed this one to get together with others who are interested in Hadoop and NoSQL databases. 

Tuesday 3:00 pm - “Oracle Performance Survival Guide” book signing 

Quest booth # 1421 – Moscone South Hall 
I’ll be signing and giving away copies of my book Oracle Performance Survival Guide at the Quest booth.  

Tuesday  5:30pm – 7pm – Quest evening with the experts 

AMC Metreon Movie Theater ,101 4th Street

Steven Feuerstein and I will be hosting an evening with the experts with a special presentation and live Q&A.  Refreshments will be provided.

Thursday 09:00 am S313603:  Solid-State Disk and the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Flash Cache

Moscone South, Room 307

Solid State disk changes the physics of database performance in really exciting ways.  DBAs should get familiar with SSD technologies so they can make sensible decisions about using SSD with Oracle.  I’ll be talking about the mechanics of SSD, including things like garbage collection, wear-leveling, PCI vs SATA and so on.  Then we’ll look at how the 11GR2 flash cache works and when you might want to use it.

Thursday  12:00 Noon S314916 : Optimizing Oracle Databases on VMware

Moscone South, Room 302

This presentation summarizes what we’ve learned at Quest about optimizing Oracle databases running in VMWare environments, particularly ESX.  I’ll be talking about CPU, memory and disk configuration for ESX and also the differences between ESX and Oracle VM and why that difference matters.