6/15/2012 - Performance Research Seminar - Craig Shallahamer

The Suncoast Oracle Users Group has once again teamed up with OraPub to bring you another exciting opportunity to expand your Oracle knowlege. Since he last visited us, our good friend Craig Shallahamer (Oracle Ace Director and all-around great guy) has been hard at work researching a whole assortment of interesting performance topics. Based on his real-world, experimental research results, Craig has developed this unique seminar that explores how Oracle works and how you can get the most performance out of it.

The Performance Research Seminar brings together our most important and recent Oracle performance research. The topics are vast yet all centered on discovering deep performance insights through experimentation and quantitative analysis. Every aspect of this seminar is based on experimental research with full detailed disclosure. This scientific approach yields deep performance insights that normally escape the DBA. Special care is taken to weave all the raw research into a cohesive seminar that is extremely day-to-day practical. We hope you can join us for this fast paced and exciting seminar!

Some of the topics covered will include:

Performing Robust Research
Cache Buffer Chain Diagnosis and Acquisition Patterns
Memory Serialization Control via Mutexes
Alter DML Batch Sizes
Commit Time vs. Log File Sync Time
The Average Deception
When is V$SYSSTAT Updated
Unit-of-Work Time Based Analysis
CPU Power: Core vs. Thread
CBC Latches CPU Consumption and Modeling It
Why Tuning Works and Modeling It
Gathering True SQL Elapsed Times

The seminar will be held at The Laughing Cat Bistro. It's a wonderful venue for a seminar plus you can partake in the optional (read: not included) lunch buffet! The address is 1811 North 15th Street, Ybor City, Tampa, FL 33605 and the phone number is (813) 241-2998.

Don't wait! Register now at OraPub.com. And don't forget to enter the discount code "SROUG" during checkout to get the 10% SOUG discount!

SOUG TechDay 2012 -- Watch for the Date!!!

Plans are progressing for our seventh annual SOUG TechDay. We are working on a date for a return to the historic Italian Club facility at 1731 E. Seventh Avenue in Ybor City. Based on feedback from the last event here, everyone enjoyed the cool historic building as much as I did when I found the place. It catches your attention right away with an impressive entryway and staircase of all imported Italian marble. Couple this with large rooms that will easily accommodate our sessions and I think we have another winner on our hands.

Keeping with the Italian theme, I'm sure you'll all be as thrilled as I am that my good friend Franco LoRe and The Laughing Cat Italian Restaurant will be catering a fabulous lunch buffet for us.

A call for speakers is going out. If any of you would like to present or would like to recommend/volunteer/conscript/whatever a speaker, just let me know.

Attendance is free, but if you plan to attend, we'll be posting an RSVP link as we approach the date.

QUICK LINKS:

Meeting Location.
Downloads from our previous meetings.
Membership Application
Pay Membership Dues Online
You can access all of the presentations from TechDay2006 here.
You can access all of the presentations from TechDay2007 here.
You can access all of the presentations from TechDay2008 here.
You can access all of the presentations from TechDay2009 here.
You can access all of the presentations from TechDay2010 here.

How many miles has your SOUG backpack travelled?
When we are selecting our conference gear for TechDay, one of our goals is to provide something that would have a useful life beyond the day's event. For at least these attendees, we seem to have attained our goal.

Long-term member John Rehg started this theme by sending me these pictures of his SOUG backpack in Kaua'i, Hawaii a couple weeks after our event.

Charter member Mary Schilling raised the bar (or at least the altitude) by sending me these pictures from her recent visit to Machu Picchu, Peru.

If you've got a picture of your SOUG gear you'd care to share, mail us a copy. We'd love to hear from you.

The Suncoast Oracle Users' Group (SOUG) aims to further the relationship between Oracle users and partners and to actively promote and enhance the mission and objectives of the International Oracle Users' Group (IOUG) in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.

SOUG provides the forums and programs that encourage the sharing of knowledge and skills amongst database administrators, applications developers, technical managers and other individuals who have interest in Oracle software, development tools, and applications.