2015 in numbers…

I am spending good times since I have moved in Switzerland 3 years ago. 2015 has been as good as 2014. Now that January ends, I am officially late in publishing this information, but it’s MY blog, so who cares? 😛

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A few numbers:

25 blog posts (+1)
~52000 page views (+40%), ~43000 visits (+48%)
Speaker at 2 major conferences (#C15LV, #UKOUG_TECH15)
Speaker at 2 Trivadis internal conferences
Speaker at 1 local user group event
Delegate of EOUC at DOAG 2015
A total of 14 public speeches (same as 2014)
I’ve been elected RAC SIG Vice President
2 RAC Attack workshops organized
1 roundtable as organizer, 1 panel
2 T-shirt designed as gifts for 2 RAC Attack workshops
2 articles published
Launched the RAC SIG website and the new session agenda
Countless new friends and/or contacts

I hope that 2016 will be as good as 2015

Recording of “Rapid Home Provisioning” webinar for the RAC SIG

Yesterday I have presented the Oracle Rapid Home Provisioning technology for the RAC SIG, you can find the recording on YouTube:

Cheers

Ludo

Rapid Home Provisioning

In a few days I will give a presentation at UKOUG Tech15 about Rapid Home Provisioning, it will be the first time that I present this session in public.

I usually like to give the link to the material to my audience, so here we go:

Slides:

Demo:

Enjoy

Ludovico

Oracle Active Data Guard and Global Data Services in Action!

In a few days I will give a presentation at UKOUG Tech15 about Global Data Services, it will be the first time that I present this session.

I usually like to give the link to the material to my audience, so here we go:

Credits

I have to give special credits to my colleague Robert Bialek. I’ve got a late confirmation for this session and my slide deck was not ready at all, so I have used a big part of his original work. Most of the content included in the slides has been created by Robert, not me. (Thank you for your help! :-))

Slides

Demo recording

Demo script

And the script to revert the demo:

Cheers

Ludovico

 

Another successful RAC Attack in Geneva!

ninja-suisseLast week I have hosted the second Swiss RAC Attack workshop at Trivadis offices in Geneva. It has been a great success, with 21 total participants: 5 Ninjas, 4 alumni and 14 people actively installing or playing with RAC 12c on their laptops.

Last year I was suprised by a participant coming fron Nanterre. This year two people came directly from Moscow, just for the workshop!

We’ve got good pizza and special beer: Chimay , Vedett, Duvel, Andechs…

Last but not least, our friend Marc Fielding was visiting Switzerland last week, so he took the opportunity to join us and make the workshop even more interesting! 😀
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Looking forward to organize it again in one year! Thank you guys 🙂

Ludovico

The Great Guys of Paris

When I started my contribution to the Oracle community, I was doing it for two reasons. The noble: Give back to the community what I have learnt from it. The narcissist: Try to be as good as my favourite bloggers and get fame and prestige.

What I was not expecting, is that now I am getting more from the community than what I was getting before starting my contribution. Not only at a technical level, but also in terms of friends, travels, network.

Earlier this summer, I have been invited, along with Franck Pachot, to present at the Paris Oracle Meetup. We have been there last Friday (4 Sept 2015), and it has been mind blowing.

Une aprĂšs-midi avec Franck Pachot et Ludovico Caldara

Friday, Sep 4, 2015, 2:00 PM

Avnet Technology Solutions
29 rue des 3 fontanot Nanterre 7 Ăšme Ă©tage nanterre, FR

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Les vacances ne sont pas finis, mais un nouveau meetup est dĂ©jĂ  prĂ©vu pour cette rentrĂ©e.Nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir une dĂ©lĂ©gation suisse:) Franck Pachot (Oracle ACE et certifié OCM 11g, OCP 12c, Performance Tuning Expert, Exadata Implementation)  de la sociĂ©tĂ© dbi-services blog de Franckansi que Ludovico Caldara (Oracle ACE,member of th…

Check out this Meetup →

I’m excited about it because this meetup started only a couple of years ago, and it has already had speakers like Jonathan Lewis and Tom Kyte. But what surprises more, is the meetup has a near-zero budget.

The legend says that Gregory Gouillou and other french guys met Christian Antognini at the Open World (or was it UKOUG Tech?), discussed about the lack of active OUGs in France and then Chris said: “If you want it, make it happen”.

The Paris Oracle Meetup now is a reality, and I am proud of having been part of it.

Thank you @RBELHADJ, @Ycolin, @GregoryGuillou, @ParisOracle ! 🙂

RAC Attack! 12c is back to Geneva!

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After a great success in 2014, RAC Attack! comes back to Geneva!
Set up an Oracle Real Application Clusters 12c environment on your laptop, try advanced configurations or simply take the opportunity to discuss about Oracle technology with the best experts in Suisse Romande!
Experienced volunteers (ninjas) will help you  address any related issues and guide you through the setup process.

Where? Trivadis office, Chemin Chùteau-Bloch 11, CH1219 Geneva

When? Thursday September 17th, 2015, from 17h00 onwards

Cost? It is a FREE event! It is a community based, informal and enjoyable workshop. You just need to bring your own laptop and your desire to have fun!

Confirmed Ninjas:
Ludovico Caldara
– Oracle ACE, RAC SIG Chair & co-auteur RAC Attack
Eric Grancher – Membre OAK Table & Senior DBA
Jacques Kostic – OCM 11g & Senior Consultant chez Trivadis

Limited places! Reserve your seat and T-shirt now!

tshirt_racattack_2015Agenda:
17.00 – Welcome and T-shirt distribution
17.30 – RAC Attack 12c part I
19.30 – Pizza and Beers! (sponsored by Trivadis)
20.00 – RAC Attack 12c part II
22.00 – Group photo and wrap-up!!

Still undecided? Look at what we did last year!

This event is sold out. No more seats available, sorry! Would you be interested in joining the event next year? Drop me an email!

#C15LV RAC Attack wrap

Did I say in some of my previous posts that I love RAC Attack? I love it more during Collaborate conference, because doing it as a pre-conference workshop is just the right way the get people involved and go straight to the goal: learning while having fun together.

We had way less people than expected but it still has been a great success!

The t-shirts have been great for coloring the room: as soon as people finished the installation of the first Linux VM, they’ve got one t-shirt.
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Look at the room at the beginning of the workshop:

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after a few hours, the room looked better! New ninjas, red stack, happy participants 🙂

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We had a very special guest today. Mr. RAC PM in person has tried and validated our installation instructions 😉
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We got pizza again, but because of restrictions at the convention center, it has been a beer-free afternoon 🙁

Thank you anyway to the OTN for sponsoring almost everything!!

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Looking forward to organize the next RAC Attack, Thank you guys!! 🙂

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Ludo

 

It’s time to Collaborate again!!

Collaborate15_Horizontal_LogoIn a little more than a couple of weeks, the great Collaborate conference will start again.

My agenda will be quite packed again, as speaker, panelist and workshop organizer:

Date/Time Event
08/04/2015
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and Pluggable Databases: When MAA Meets Oracle Multitenant
IOUG Collaborate 15, Las Vegas NV
08/04/2015
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Panel: Nothing to BLOG About - Think Again
IOUG Collaborate 15, Las Vegas NV
12/04/2015
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
RAC Attack! 12c
IOUG Collaborate 15, Las Vegas NV
15/04/2015
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
IOUG RAC SIG Meeting
IOUG Collaborate 15, Las Vegas NV

 

RAC Attack! 12c

This technical workshop and networking event (never forget it’s a project created several years ago thanks to an intuition of Jeremy Schneider), confirms to be one of the best, long-living projects in the Oracle Community. It certainly boosted my Community involvement up to becoming an Oracle ACE. This year I’m the coordinator of the organization of the workshop, it’s a double satisfaction and it will certainly be a lot of fun again. Did I said that it’s already full booked? I’ve already blogged about it (and about what the lucky participants will get) here.

 

Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and Pluggable Databases: When MAA Meets Oracle Multitenant 

One of my favorite presentations, I’ve presented it already at OOW14 and UKOUG Tech14, but it’s still a very new topic for most people, even the most experienced DBAs. You’ll learn how Multitenant, RAC and Data Guard work together. Expect colorful architecture schemas and a live demo!  You can read more about it in this post.

 

Panel: Nothing to BLOG About – Think Again

My friend Michael Abbey (Pythian) invited me to participate in his panel about blogging. It’s my first time as panelist, so I’m very excited!

 

IOUG RAC SIG Meeting

Missing this great networking event is not an option! I’m organizing this session as RAC SIG board member (Thanks to the IOUG for this opportunity!). We’ll focus on Real Application Clusters role in the private cloud and infrastructure optimization. We’ll have many special guests, including Oracle RAC PM Markus Michalewicz, Oracle QoS PM Mark Scardina and Oracle ASM PM James Williams.

Can you ever miss it???

 

A good Trivadis representative!!

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This year I’m not going to Las Vegas alone. My Trivadis colleague Markus Flechtner , one of the most expert RAC technologists I have the chance to know, will also come and present a session about RAC diagnostics:

615: RAC Clinics- Starring Dr. ORACHK, Dr CHM and Dr. TFA

Mon. April 13| 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM | Room Palm D

If you speak German you can follow his nice blog: http://oracle.markusflechtner.de/

Looking forward to meet you there

Ludovico

RAC Attack at IOUG Collaborate 2015

Once again this year the RAC Attack will be a pre-conference workshop at Collaborate.

Whether you’re a sysadmin, a developer or a DBA, I’m sure you will really enjoy this workshop. Why?

First, you get the opportunity to install a RAC 12c using Virtualbox on your laptop and get coached by many RAC experts, Oracle ACEs and ACE Directors, OCMs and famous bloggers and technologists.

If you’ve never installed it, it will be very challenging because you get hands on network components, shared disks, udev, DNS, Virtual Machine cloning, OS install and so on, and being super-user (root) of your own cluster!! If your a developer, you can then start developing your applications by testing the failover features of RAC and their scalability by checking for global cache wait events.

If you’re already used to RAC, this year we have not one or two, but three deals for you:

  1. Try the semi-automated RAC installation using Vagrant: you’ll be able to have your RAC up and running in minutes and concentrate on advanced features.
  2. Implement advanced labs such as Flex Cluster and Flex ASM or Policy Managed Databases, and discover Hub and Leaf nodes, Server Pools and other features
  3. Ask the ninjas to show you other advanced scenarios or just discuss about other RAC related topics

 

Isn’t enough?

The participants that will complete at least the Linux install (very first stage of the workshop) will get an OTN-sponsored T-shirt of the event, with the very new RAC SIG Logo (the image is purely indicative, the actual design may change):

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Still not enough?

We’ll have free pizza (at lunch) and beer (in the afternoon), again sponsored by the Oracle Technology Network. Can’t believe it? Look at a few images from last year’s edition:

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Check the pre-conference workshops on the IOUG Collaborate 15 website and don’t forget to full-fill the requirements before attending the workshop:

To participate in the workshop, participants need to bring their own laptop. Recommended specification: a) any 64 bit OS that supports Oracle Virtual Box b) 8GB RAM, 45GB free HDD space, SSD recommended.

Important: it’s required to pre-download Oracle Database 12c and Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c for Linux x86-64 from the Oracle Website http://tinyurl.com/rac12c-dl (four files: linuxamd64_12c_database_1of2.zip linuxamd64_12c_database_2of2.zip linuxamd64_12c_grid_1of2.zip linuxamd64_12c_grid_2of2.zip). Due to license restrictions it’s not be possible to distribute Oracle Sofware.

Looking forward to meet you there!!!

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Ludovico