Blog Aggregator - Amardeep Sidhu

Oracle VP Leng Leng Tan  and two members of her team presented some highlights of the new OEM which is at the beta level at present. You can find details  for her OOW presentations and demos and other sources here.
I want to share two of them:   The first is SQL Real Time Monitoring:
With OEM 11g […]

Yesterday was busy, but successful overall.  The first session I did was “DBA 2.0″, a battle between the script wielding DBA version 1.0 and the tool adopting DBA version 2.0:

It was both fun and accurate.  The scenario’s presented were real world enough - a) general database slowdown, diagnose and fix, b) new application rolled out over the weekend, performance down the tubes on Monday morning, DBA did a shutdown abort, and removed the new application - now figure out what went wrong and suggest corrective action.  And the attempt to find/implement solutions were as well.  Having the ability and knowledge to command line when necessary, along with using the tools day to day is the way forward I think.

The next session was an OTN meet and greet.  For an hour I took questions “in the round” - had a nice crowd, but not too large.  Everyone but me had a beer in hand - that was a bit disappointing :) 

Also, recorded a podcast yesterday, available here for your listening pleasure.

As of last week Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 4 (10.2.0.4) is available for Windows 32 bit and Linux 32 bit!
Also the Agent is available for Win 32 and Linux X86 .

Oracle 11g database is now available for the following platforms:
Microsoft Windows (32-bit) (1.7 GB) 
Microsoft Windows (x64) (1.7 GB)
Linux x86 (1.7 GB)
Linux x86-64 (1.8 GB)
Solaris (SPARC) (64-bit) (1.9 GB)
AIX (PPC64) Disk 1, Disk 2 (2.3 GB) 
HP-UX Itanium Disk 1, Disk 2 (2.3 GB)

Tonight I was at a session with Wim Coekaerts
who is responsible for all Linux related stuff at Oracle.
He is also the project leader for the Oracle Virtual Server.
Wim told me that the software for the OVS will be
available for download latest Thursday this week (Nov. 15th. 2007).
I asked him whether OVS is zertified for RAC and […]

Today Charles Phillips in his keynote  officially announced the availability of Oracle Virtualization Server.
It is a virtualization server based on the opensource XEN technology.
Already two hours after the announcement there was the first brilliant presentation about GRID & Virtualization Server and its integration with Fusion Middleware. delivered by Senior Director Pavana Jain.
The software is not downloadable yet […]

I arrived last night, late.  I am doing a weeks worth of stuff in two days this year.  I’ve had a rehearsal, a podcast recorded and am waiting to do my first talk - at the Unconference (the no slide zone).  The first talk is “DBA 2.0″, the role of the DBA in the year 2007 (and how it is a bit different from the way it was in 1997, 1987…)

Later this afternoon, a “meet and greet” session in the OTN lounge is on the schedule and then a customer meeting.  Tomorrow is the really busy day - a keynote session in the morning as part of the IDevelop ’sub conference’, another “no slide zone” talk in the afternoon and then finishing up with a regular session that evening. 

Then, get on the plane to fly back home

So, what was the biggest surprise news so far?  Oracle VM…  I’m a huge fan of virtualization - have been for a long time.  This is going to be cool.