Will you be joining us at the UKOUG Conference and Exhibition in Liverpool, UK? Over 200 world-class speakers and industry experts will be in attendance, including some of our very own.
Michael Abbey, Oracle ACE and Team Lead at Pythian notes that Pythian’s attendance is important, not only for the company and its employees, but for the Oracle community as a whole. “Pythian’s presence at UKOUG this year is the next chapter in an ongoing participation in database and EIS technical events around the world,” Michael explains. “We pride ourselves on presence on all seven continents and our appearances in Liverpool are strategic to the worldwide user community, as are all the locations we frequent every year.The user group community is one of the fundamental building blocks for technical resources as they hone their skills to better serve their clients and the masses in general. Since its founding, Pythian has been a strategic and financial support organization feeding talent to many of the world’s largest technical shows.”
“You will see a number of presenters from the Pythian suite of experts including Oracle ACEs, Oracle ACE Directors, and members of the OakTable Network. We look forward to catching up with new acquaintances and rekindling existing relationships.” In the meantime, you can find their speaking sessions down below.
UPDATE: Join us for an informal networking event alongside Rittman Mead on Monday December 8th during UKOUG. We will be discussing how to leverage data to drive your organization’s success. Come meet with peers and industry experts, Mark Rittman and Jon Mead of Rittman Mead, and Marc Fielding and Christo Kutrovsky of Pythian. The networking event will take place at PanAm Bar and Restaurant in Liverpool from 6-8 PM, and will include drinks and light refreshments.
Please be sure to RSVP to the event—we hope to see you there!
RMAN: The Necessary Basics
Presented by Michael Abbey | Monday December 8, 2014 — 9:00-9:50 AM
This session, best suited for attendees just getting started with RMAN, the basic skills to write consistent backups and perform recovery activities from day one. Highlighted in this masterclass will be the following: RMAN architecture, using a catalog, backups to disk, backups to tape, recovery (complete and incomplete), database duplication, and tips and tricks.
About Michael: Michael Abbey is a seasoned and experienced presenter on the Oracle Database CORE technology. He first cut his teeth on V3 in 1986 and it has been a whirlwind of Oracle since then. Michael co-authored the first work in the Oracle Press series in 1994.
Why Use OVM for Oracle Database?
Presented by Francisco Munoz Alvarez | Monday December 8, 2014 — 5:00-5:50 PM
Vibrant session about OVM, that will explain how, when and why use this product for Virtualization. It will also give an overview of how Revera is currently using this product in NZ (Biggest OVM Farm in the ANZ region) and show benchmark results between Bare Metal, OVM and ESX concluding with some tips and showing the scalability and break point of load of the Virtualization solutions.
Come and discover the answers for the following questions:
- Does an Oracle Database perform well on a virtualized environment?
- What virtualization technology is more stable and allows an Oracle database to perform faster?
- What is the performance difference between using a bare metal and a virtualized guest?
- Is it safe to run a production database in a virtualized environment?
About Francisco: Working out of Pythian’s Australian office in Macquarie Park, Francisco Munoz Alvarez is Vice President and Managing Director of Service Delivery in Asia Pacific, overseeing its regional expansion effort. Francisco previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Database Integrated Solutions Ltd and has more than two decades’ experience in Oracle databases. As President of the Chilean Oracle Users Group and founder of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) tours in Latin America and Asia Pacific, he is best known for his evangelist work with the Oracle community.
Big Data with Exadata
Presented by Christo Kutrovsky | Tuesday December 9, 2014 — 5:30-6:20 PM
In this presentation, Oracle ACE Christo Kutrovsky will discuss common big data use cases and how they can be implemented efficiently with Exadata. Attendees will learn how Exadata actually delivers most of the benefits touted by newer big data technologies, and can often be the right platform for data scalability.
About Christo: Christo Kutrovsky is an Oracle ACE in Pythian’s Advanced Technology Consulting Group. With a deep understanding of databases, application memory, and input/output interactions, he is an expert at optimizing the performance of the most complex infrastructures. A dynamic speaker, Christo has delivered presentations at the IOUG, the UKOUG, the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group, Oracle Open World, and other industry conferences.
Measuring Performance in Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux
Presented by Christo Kutrovsky | Wednesday December 10, 2014 —9:00-9:50 AM
You can’t improve what you can’t measure. If you want to get the most value from your database, you need to start with the basics: are you using your hardware and operating systems efficiently? Attend this session to learn how to measure system utilization in the Linux and Oracle Solaris operating systems and how to use this information for tuning and capacity planning.
About Christo: Christo Kutrovsky is an Oracle ACE in Pythian’s Advanced Technology Consulting Group. With a deep understanding of databases, application memory, and input/output interactions, he is an expert at optimizing the performance of the most complex infrastructures. A dynamic speaker, Christo has delivered presentations at the IOUG, the UKOUG, the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group, Oracle Open World, and other industry conferences.
Lessons Learned in Implementing Oracle Access Manager 11g with Forms, Reports, and Discoverer
Presented by Sudeep Raj and Maris Elsins | Wednesday December 10, 2014 — 12:30-1:20 PM
Support for SSO has ended in December 2011. To take advantage of the latest security enhancements, it’s always recommended for customers to upgrade their system to the latest and the greatest version of the product i.e OAM/OID 11g, very important to stay on the supported configurations. This session will give you an opportunity to understand how OAM 11g can be configured with Forms/Reports/Discoverer 11g, integration with external directory service like Microsoft AD and discuss about the upgrade considerations for customers planning to upgrade from 10g SSO/OID to OAM 11g and OID 11g.
About Sudeep: Sudeep Raj is a Team Lead/Oracle Applications Database Consultant at Pythian, managing a group of expert DBAs spread across the globe. With nearly a decade of experience as an Apps DBA, he has been involved in and led multiple Oracle E-Business Suite 11i/R12 implementations, maintenance, migration and upgrade projects. Sudeep Raj is an OCP certified professorial and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science.
About Maris: Recently awarded the Oracle ACE designation, Maris Elsins is a Lead Database Consultant at Pythian. He is a blogger and frequent speaker at many Oracle related conferences like Collaborate, UKOUG, and LVOUG where he is a board member. Maris is an exceptional trouble shooter and enjoys learning why things behave the way they do.
Optimizing and Simplifying Complex SQL with Advanced Grouping
Presented by Jared Still | Wednesday December 10, 2014 — 3:30-4:20 PM
This presentation will show how these features can be used to simplify SQL that was previously quite complex by reducing the amount of code needed and improving readability, and perhaps most importantly, greatly optimizing the performance of SQL statements.
About Jared: Jared Still is a Senior Database Consultant at Pythian. His experience includes working with Oracle databases beginning with version 7.0. While Oracle has expanded to encompass many aspects of the application environment, Jared’s focus has been on the database itself and related infrastructure.
Oracle RAC — Designing Applications for Scalability
Presented by Christo Kutrovsky | Wednesday December 10, 2014 — 3:30-4:20 PM
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) promises 100% transparent active-active clustering technology – true horizontal scaling, but does it work in all cases? This presentation explores the challenges with Oracle’s active-active solution and how to solve them from both database side and application side. Both conceptual design and highly practical solutions are explored.
About Christo: Christo Kutrovsky is an Oracle ACE in Pythian’s Advanced Technology Consulting Group. With a deep understanding of databases, application memory, and input/output interactions, he is an expert at optimizing the performance of the most complex infrastructures. A dynamic speaker, Christo has delivered presentations at the IOUG, the UKOUG, the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group, Oracle Open World, and other industry conferences.
Database as a Service on the Oracle Database Appliance Platform
Presented by Marc Fielding and Maris Elsins | Wednesday December 10, 2014 — 3:30-4:20 PM
Oracle Database Appliance provides a robust, highly-available, cost-effective, and surprisingly scalable platform for database as a service environment. By leveraging Oracle Enterprise Manager’s self-service features, databases can be provisioned on a self-service basis to a cluster of Oracle Database Appliance machines. Discover how multiple ODA devices can be managed together to provide both high availability and incremental, cost-effective scalability. Hear real-world lessons learned from successful database consolidation implementations.
About Marc: Marc Fielding is a passionate and creative problem solver, drawing on deep understanding of the full enterprise application stack to identify the root cause of problems, and to implement effective and sustainable solutions. He has extensive experience implementing Oracle’s engineered system portfolio, including leading one of the first enterprise Oracle Exadata implementations. Marc has a strong background in performance tuning and high availability.
About Maris: Recently awarded the Oracle ACE designation, Maris Elsins is a Lead Database Consultant at Pythian. He is a blogger and frequent speaker at many Oracle related conferences like Collaborate, UKOUG, and LVOUG where he is a board member. Maris is an exceptional trouble shooter and enjoys learning why things behave the way they do.
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