Please come join the Chicago Oracle Users Group for a meeting on Thursday, March 1st from 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM. This meeting will be sponsored by ViON and held at the Hoffman Estates Village Hall.
For our speakers we have legendary Oracle Architect, Graham Wood, Oracle ACE Directors, Björn Rost, Jim Czuprynski, and Richard Niemiec! Topics will be on Oracle AWR, Oracle database performance troubleshooting, Oracle 18c, and Kafka!
This will be a knowledge packed all day session so don’t miss it!
Breakfast and lunch will be served and we will have raffle prizes at the end of the meeting.
Members bring a colleague (developer, manager, etc) and be entered for a chance to win a GoPro!
Graham Wood is an architect in the Oracle RDBMS Development group based in Redwood Shores, California. Most of Graham’s 30+years at Oracle has been spent working in performance related areas, including working with many of the largest high performance customer systems and architecting the development of tools such as Statspack, AWR and ADDM. Graham has presented on Oracle Performance topics all over the globe. He currently works as part of the Real World Performance Group, a group dedicated to ensuring that customers get the most out of their Oracle databases.
Björn Rost is an Oracle Developer Champion, ACE Director,and one of Pythian’s top Oracle experts. A popular presenter, Björn travels the world attending technology conferences, sharing insights, and learning with his wide network of peers. Björn also organizes the OTN EMEA tour and served as president of IOUG’s RAC special interest group and. He is always challenging himself, personally through physical activities including triathlons, and professionally through his ongoing quest to increase his knowledge of Oracle and other leading technologies.
Jim Czuprynski has 35+ years of professional experience in his career in information technology. He has served diverse roles at several Fortune 1000 companies – mainframe programmer, applications developer, business analyst, and project manager – before becoming an Oracle DBA in 2001. Jim was awarded the status of Oracle ACE Director in March 2014 and is a sought-after public speaker on Oracle Database technology features. He has presented topics at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, Hotsos Symposium, Oracle Technology Network ACE Tours, and Oracle User Group conferences around the world.
Jim has authored over 100 articles focused on facets of Oracle Database administration to his credit since 2003 at databasejournal.com and ioug.org. He has also co-authored three books on Oracle database technology. Jim’s blog, Generally … It Depends (http://jimczuprynski.wordpress.com), contains his regular observations on all things Oracle.
Rich Niemiec is the current Chief Innovation Officer of Viscosity North America. Rich is an Oracle Ace Director, a world renowned IT Expert, and was a co-founder and the CEO of TUSC, a Chicago-based systems integrator of Oracle-based business solutions started in 1988. Rich has served as President of Rolta TUSC and Rolta EICT.
Rich is the past President of the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and the current President of the Midwest Oracle Users Group (MOUG). Rich has architected and tuned many Fortune 500 systems over the past 25 years.
His experience in data processing ranges from teaching to consulting, with emphasis in database administration, performance tuning, project management and technical education. Rich is one of six originally honored worldwide Oracle Certified Masters and advised Oracle development from time to time. In 2017, he authored the Oracle “Oracle12c Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques,” an update of his previous 4 Oracle best sellers on Oracle8i, 9i, 10g, and 11i Performance Tuning. Rich was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 1998.
Agenda
| 9:30 AM – 9:35 AM | Welcome and Introduction – Alfredo Abate, COUG |
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| 9:35 AM – 10:15 AM | Everything You Know Is Wrong: DBA Intuition, Meet Hard-Core Metrics, Jim Czuprynski, Advanced Technical Consultant – Oracle Solutions, ViON Corporation
Handling application performance degradation – especially when an RDBMS as complex as Oracle Database 12cR2 underlies the application – can be a complex, time-consuming, frustrating task. Via actual use cases, stories of painful discoveries, and of course some hard-core metrics, this session will take a look at some of the simplest mistakes even an Oracle DBA can make when probing application performance issues and how to overcome one’s own blind spots when searching for the true root causes of that degradation. |
| 10:15 AM – 10:25 AM | Break |
| 10:25 AM – 12:30 PM | Architecture Review by AWR: How the Real World Performance Group Reads an AWR, Graham Wood, Architect Oracle Corp
Oracle’s Real World Performance Group is dedicated to ensuring that customers get the most out of their Oracle databases. Graham Wood will show you how to do just that by reviewing some of your real-world Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports from the perspective of an experienced performance tuning expert. So if you’ve ever struggled with navigating the voluminous performance metrics and valuable tuning information within your database’s AWRs, feel free to submit one of the more challenging ones in advance to COUG. You can e-mail them directly to COUG and as long as they are received by Monday, February 26th, they’ll be included in the pool of AWRs that Graham will dissect at his session. Don’t miss your organization’s chance to benefit from this unique opportunity! |
| 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch and Networking Break |
| 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM | Streaming Oracle to Apache Kafka: Stories from the Message Bus Stop, Björn Rost, Principal Consultant, Pythian
Apache Kafka is a massively scalable message queue that is being used at more and more places connecting more and more data sources. This presentation will introduce Kafka from the perspective of a mere mortal Oracle DBA and share the experience of (and challenges with) getting events from the database to Kafka and possibly even backusing different solutions and connectors including poor-man’s CDC using flashback query and replication tools like Dbvisit and Oracle Golden Gate. |
| 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM | Break |
| 2:10 PM – 3:00 PM | Oracle 18c Best New Features, Rich Niemiec, Chief Innovation Officer, Viscosity Architect Oracle Corp
This presentation will look at which 18c new features that should be investigated for use (such as In-Memory External Tables, Merge Partition Online, Advances in the Approximate Query, and Password-less Schema Creation – & oithers), . Most of the features that will be covered will be related to the DBA, but there will also be a few outside that realm that focus on the developer. There will be simple examples, where possible, to show the basic functionality of the new features. Some features are too new to show example, but only explain. We will also look at the autonomous database and Oracle’s focus on the future of security. |
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