Après Oracle Open World, IOUG Collaborate et d’autres grandes conférences, RAC Attack arrive également à Genève! Installez l’environnement Oracle 12c RAC sur votre laptop. Des volontaires expérimentés (ninjas) vous aideront à résoudre
toutes les énigmes apparentés et vous guideront à travers le processus
d’installation.
Ninjas Ludovico Caldara – Oracle ACE, RAC SIG European Chair & RAC Attack co-writer Luca Canali – OAK Table Member & frequent speaker Eric Grancher – OAK Table member Jacques Kostic – OCM 11g & Senior Consultant at Trivadis
Où? nouveaux bureaux Trivadis, Chemin Château-Bloch 11, CH1219 Geneva Quand? Mercredi 17 September 2014, dès 17h00 Coût? C’est un évènement GRATUIT! C’est un atelier communautaire, plaisant et
informel. Vous n’avez qu’à apporter votre laptop et votre bonne humeur! Inscription: TVD_LS_ADMIN@trivadis.com
Places limitées! Réservez votre place & votre T-shirt dès à présent: TVD_LS_ADMIN@trivadis.com
Agenda:
17.00 – Bienvenue
17.30 – RAC Attack 12c – 1ere partie
19.30 – Pizza et Bières! (sponsorisés par Trivadis)
20.00 – RAC Attack 12c – 2eme partie
22.00 – distribution des T-shirt et photo de groupe!!
TRES IMPORTANT:La participation à cet évènementrequière l’apport de votre propre laptop!
Spécifications requises:
a) 64 bit OS qui supporte Oracle Virtual Box
b) 8GB RAM, 50GB free HDD space.
En raison de contraintes juridiques, merci de télécharger à l’avance Oracle Database 12c ainsi que Grid Infrastructure pour Linux x86-64 depuis https://edelivery.oracle.com/ (et pour
plus d’informations : http://goo.gl/pqavYh).
After Oracle Open World, IOUG Collaborate and all major conferences, RAC Attack comes to Geneva! Set up Oracle 12c RAC environment on your laptop. Experienced volunteers (ninjas) will help you address any related issues and guide you through the setup process.
Ninjas Ludovico Caldara – Oracle ACE, RAC SIG European Chair & RAC Attack co-writer Luca Canali – OAK Table Member and frequent speaker Eric Grancher – OAK Table member Jacques Kostic – OCM 11g & Senior Consultant at Trivadis
Where? new Trivadis office, Chemin Château-Bloch 11, CH1219 Geneva When? Wednesday September 17th 2014, from 17h00 onwards Cost? It is a FREEevent! It is a community based, informal and enjoyable workshop.
You just need to bring your laptop and your desire to have fun! Registration: TVD_LS_ADMIN@trivadis.com
Limited places! Reserve your seat and T-shirt now: TVD_LS_ADMIN@trivadis.com
Agenda:
17.00 – Welcome
17.30 – RAC Attack 12c part I
19.30 – Pizza and Beers! (kindly sponsored by Trivadis)
20.00 – RAC Attack 12c part II
22.00 – T-shirt distribution and group photo!!
VERY IMPORTANT: To participate in the workshop, you need to bring your own laptop.
Required specification:
a) any 64 bit OS that supports Oracle Virtual Box
b) 8GB RAM, 50GB free HDD space.
Due to legal constraints, please pre-download Oracle Database 12c and Grid Infrastructure for Linux x86-64 from https://edelivery.oracle.com/ web site (further
information here: http://goo.gl/pqavYh).
It would not have been possible without many ACE and Oracle friends and mentors, in particular Bjoern, Yury, Chris, Osama and Laura. Thank you guys!
I would be the second Italian Oracle ACE if it wasn’t that I’m based in Switzerland now, and after all, in Italy I would not have boosted my community contribution like I’ve done in the past two years… so many thanks also to this beautiful country (Switzerland) and to Trivadis that supports my activities 😉
I’m looking forward to contribute more and with better content 🙂
Collaborate 14 is over. After a small week of vacation, it’s time for me to think about it and blog a short review about what I’ve learnt and done.
RAC Attack 12c (Monday)
RAC Attack is definitely a great project, and the live event at Collaborate has been greater than ever before. The “official pre-conference workshop” has attracted 40 active participants (where active really means 40 people with 40 laptops installing 40 RAC 12c stacks!). Big user base means also new problems. We’ve faced a strange issue with VirtualBox showing only 32bit versions for the guest OSes (hint, hardware acceleration MUST be enabled in the laptop’s BIOS) and a few copy & paste problems from the electronic PDF (copying & pasting from the online website solves the problem). We’re working in order to fix them.
As usual, most of the problems faced by the participants were related to some steps skipped by mistake.
The OTN (our great friend @OracleDBDev 🙂 ) has sponsored pizzas, drinks and beers!!!
Moreover, always thanks to the OTN, we’ve got a few prizes to give to the best participants (the most active in installing and/or helping others) and cool T-shirts. We’ve got a great feedback from the attendees and the entire Oracle community, we’re looking forward to see another success like this one.
It has been possible thanks to the many local and remote contributors!
The Ninjas: Yury Velikanov, Seth Miller, Erik Benner, Andrejs Karpovs, (me) The additional new Ninja: Ryan Weber The OTN staff: Laura Ramsey, Bob Rhubart The IOUG staff: Alexis Bauer Kolak, Apryl Alexander-Savino, Tricia Chiamas The RAC Attack founder and legend: Jeremy Schneider Other volunteers: Leighton Nelson, Osama Mustafa, Kamran Agayev, Alvaro Miranda, Maaz Anjum, Björn Rost, Bobby Curtis, Marcin Przepiorowski, Marc Fielding, <missing names here>
Most of these people are very active on Twitter, make sure to follow them! 🙂
Check out this small video by Erik Benner, it’s made by many different pictures taken during the workshop.
The RAC SIG meeting (Tuesday)
Tuesday evening I’ve organized with my friend Yury a SIG meeting about the best ways to learn Oracle RAC 12c. Despite the late time and free beer served in the exhibition hall, we’ve got a good attendance. Many new faces but also many faces from the RAC Attack. We’ve been honored by the presence of Oracle (the RAC Product Manager Markus Michalewicz in person!). It has been really interesting.
My first sessions about Data Guard (Wednesday)
I was expecting many people, actually I’ve got between 40 and 50 attendees, not sure if it’s OK, but I’ve been very excited about the presence of Larry Carpenter (Oracle Data Guard Product Manager) in the room. My speech was not good enough to fulfill my personal expectation, but I’ve got a quite good feedback from many people and a very good feedback about my live demos! 🙂
My second session about Policy-managed Databases (Friday)
My second presentation has been slight better than the first one (read: my English has been more fluent) and I’ve also got a great feedback. Again, I’ve executed the demos without problems (I’ve prepared my lab on the plane :-)) Sadly the audience has been much smaller, I think something like 15 attendees. I can blame the time (last day, early morning) and the topic: how many people know about PMDB? The next time I’ll find a more attractive title.
Networking and great content
Collaborate is big enough to network with a huge amount of experts and famous technologists, but not big enough to have difficulties in finding the people you’re looking for.
In the networking area I’ve always been able to find many great peers for great discussions.
The sessions were great, I’m always excited to hear from Oracle Employees, ACEs, ACE Directors and members of the OAK Table. And this Collaborate was no exception.
The most exciting news has been the introduction of the “lightning talks” at the Oak Table World. A+++ !
Friends, more friends and a lot of friends
What I’m most excited about, is the great number of old and new friends that I’ve met. Thank you my friends, you know who you are, I hope to see you very soon! 🙂
One spare day in New York (Saturday)
I’ve scheduled my flights with the intent of spending one day in New York, so I’ve landed Saturday very early and taken off the same day, in the evening. First time in NYC, I’ve loved it! 🙂
And remember, Collaborate 14 is over, but collaboration is not! Start your involvement with the community today!
I’ve just published an advanced lab on SlideShare that RAC Attack attendees may do at Collaborate this year, instead of just doing the basic 2-node RAC installation on their laptop.
We’ll offer also an advanced lab about Flex Clusters and Flex ASM (written by Maaz Anjum). Moreover, I’m working on an additional lab that allows to implement a multi-node RAC by using Virtual Box linked clones and GI Home clones like I’ve shown in my previous post.
RAC Attack at #C14LV will be like fun again. We’ll have a few t-shirts for the attendants, designed by me and Chet “Oraclenerd” Justice, kindly sponsored by OTN.
The workshop will end up with beers and snaks (again, thank you OTN for sponsoring this :-)).
If you’re planning to attend Collaborate, join us and start your conference week in a good mood 🙂
This year I will have the honor to present at Collaborate14, from April 7th to 11th. First of all, many thanks to Trivadis that has kindly agreed to send me to the conference.
My session (#603): Oracle Data Guard 12c: Real-Time Cascade, Far Sync Instances and other goodies has been accepted, so if you plan to attend Collaborate, I will be glad to see you there!
My paper and presentation are ready, but I’ll wait the post-conference before publishing them. Meanwhile, you can get a little sneak peak of my live demo (I’ll cut something, somewhere, but my new SSD disk should reduce the time elapsed, I have to do it again with the new hardware to get correct timings 🙂 ). There’s no audio, since it’s supposed to be my failover demo if I’ll have problems during my session.
Part I
Part II
I’ve submitted another abstract about Policy Managed Databases, but it has been put in the waiting list, assuming that Data Guard has a lot more users and the interest in new Data Guard 12c features will be higher than PMDBs that are rarely used in production environments (and I’m sad about it, keep in touch if you want to know more about this great technology).
RAC Attack 12c!
I’ll be organizing the RAC Attack again, along with Seth Miller, Yury Velikanov and Kamran Agayev. Sharing this exciting role with an Oracle ACE and two ACE Directors makes me proud of what I’m doing, but more than this, I’m happy to repeat another exciting experience like I had at OOW13.
This Year RAC Attack will be an official pre-conference workshop. We have been contacted directly by the IOUG, and we’re making improvements. We’ll install RAC 12c and discuss about advanced topics, have a lot of fun, drink a beer together and jump a lot! 🙂
In my previous post I’ve talked about some news from the Open World. Now it’s time to talk about MY week and why I’ve loved it…
It’s all about community involvement
The most exciting thing about the OOW is the possibility to interact with great people, bloggers, speakers, experts, and now I can also say friends. In the last decade, I’ve worked hard for customers and dealt with almost all the problems and architectures that an Oracle DBA can face, but I’ve always done few efforts for the community, sometimes because I was having no time, sometimes because I was perceiving it as time-expensive and gainless. I was wrong. It’s time-consuming, yes, but it lets me feel richer.
The first good news
When I’ve landed in the USA, the first mail I’ve read was the following:
Congratulations Bjoern. Bobby, Gokhan and Ludovico on being elected as RAC SIG Office bearers!!!
Vice President: Bjoern Rost
US Conference Events Chair: Bobby Curtis
Website Chair : Gokhan Atil
Regional Chair Europe: Ludovico Cadara
We look forward for you all to take us to the next level. I will include you on our board member email group.
Congratulations again!!
K.P.Singh
Current President, RAC SIG
We’ve made an official announcement on twitter recently:
So I’ve attended my first RAC SIG meeting at OOW13 at the OTN lounge.
RAC SIG meeting at OOW13
Now I’m weekly (or even daily) in contact with the board by e-mail, tomorrow we’ll have a conf-call to put the bases to work on for the next year. Wish us good luck! 🙂
RAC Attack 12c
Well, I’ve talked about the RAC ATTACK in my previous posts. The event has been a success, we’ve had many attendants, curious people and friends coming to do the lab or get in touch. It has been a great opportunity to collaborate with (and be praised by) several community experts including Oracle ACEs and ACE directors:
The Ninjas:
Seth Miller (@Seth_M_Miller)
Bjoern Rost (@brost)
Yury Velikanov (@yvelik)
Leighton Nelson (@leight0nn)
Bertrand Drouvot (@BertrandDrouvot)
Kamran Agayev (@KamranAgayev)
Martin Nash (@mpnsh)
Maaz Anjum (@maaz_anjum)
Hans Forbrich (@HansForbric)
Tim Hall (@oraclebase)
Ludovico Caldara (@ludovicocaldara) that’s me! 🙂
Other contributors and great people that worked on the project:
Laura Ramsey (@OracleDBDev)
Jeremy Schneider (@jer_s)
Osama Mustafa (@OsamaOracle)
Bobby Curtis (@dbasolved)
Alex Gorbachev (@alexgorbachev)
Also note that the RAC Attack will be present at the UKOUG Tech 2013 and RMOUG 2014, so don’t miss it if you plan to attend these conferences.
The Blogger Meetup
This meeting, organized by Pythian and OTN, allows to meet the most famous and active bloggers in the Oracle Community. This GREAT VIDEO from Björn Rost should give you an idea (I appear at 19”):
Here’s another one, always from Björn:
The Swim in the bay
Literally, a meetup of crazy guys willing to freeze themselves in the bay the early morning!
Chet Justice has organized this and he managed to get sponsorship for swim-caps and T-shirts 🙂 I’m the third from the left, you may recognize many famous people here 🙂
Now I’m part of a community, I’m involved, I learn from others and I let others to learn from me… where applicable! 🙂 Interacting with people from all around the world let me feel stronger and more open to new challenges. And I know that if I have a dream is up to me to chase it and make it come true.
PS: This is an incomplete list of the people I’ve met (other than the RAC Attack contributors).
Make sure to follow them!
Vit Spinka (@vitspinka)
Vanessa Simmons (@pythiansimmons)
Riyaj Shamsudeen (@riyajshamsudeen)
Øyvind Isene (@OyvindIsene)
Carlos Sierra (@csierra_usa)
Gregory Guillou (@ArKZoYd)
Heli Helskyaho (@HeliFromFinland)
Marc Fielding (@mfild)
Jonathan Lewis (@JLOracle)
Fuad Arshad (@fuadar)
Chet Justice (@oraclenerd)
Tim Gorman (@timothyjgorman)
Mark W. Farnham (@pudge1954)
Kerry Osborne (@KerryOracleGuy)
Arjen Visser (@dbvisit)
Kyle Hailey (@kylehhailey)
Steve Karam (@OracleAlchemist)
Eric Grancher (@EricGrancher)
Arup Nanda (@arupnanda)
Kent Graziano (@KentGraziano)
Andrey Goryunov (@goryunov)
James Morle (@JamesMorle)
Christo Kutrovsky (@kutrovsky)
Brian Fitzgerald (@ExaGridDba)
Kellyn Pot’Vin (@DBAKevlar)
Karl Arao (@karlarao)
Jason Arneil (@jarneil)
Gustavo Rene Antunez (@grantunez)
Frits Hoogland (@fritshoogland)
Luca Canali (@LucaCanaliDB)
Chris Buckel (@flashdba)
Cary Millsap (@CaryMillsap)
Paul Vallee (@paulvallee)
Tanel Poder (@TanelPoder)
Connor McDonald (@connor_mc_d)
Gwen (Chen) Shapira (@gwenshap)
Christian Antognini (@ChrisAntognini)
Mauro Pagano (@Mautro)
Jérôme Françoisse (@JeromeFr)
Ittichai (@ittichai)
Jeff Smith (@thatjeffsmith)
Michelle Malcher (@malcherm)
Debra Lilley (@debralilley)
Doug Burns (@orcldoug)
I’m back at work now, safely, after the week in San Francisco.
It’s time to sit down, and try to pull out some thought about what I’ve experienced and done.
I’ll start from the new announcements, what is most important for most people, and leave my personal experience for my next post.
In-memory Database Option
Oracle has announced the In-Memory option for the Oracle Database. This feature will store the data simultaneously in traditional row-based and into a new in-memory columnar format, to serve optimally both analytics and OLTP workloads AT THE SAME TIME. Because column-based storage is redundant, it will work without logging mechanism, so the overhead will be minimal. The marketing message claims “ungodly speed”: 100x faster queries for analytics and 2x faster queries in OLTP environments.
By separating Analytics and OLTP with different storage formats, the indexes on the row-based version of the table can be reduced to make the transactions faster, getting the rid of the analytical indexes thank to the columnar format that is already optimized for that kind of workload. The activation of the option will be transparent to the applications.
How it will be activated?
Oracle PL/SQL
1
2
3
inmemory_size=XXXGB
altertablefoo...inmemory;
Now my considerations:
[evil] Will this option make your database faster than putting it on an actual Exadata?
It will be an option, so it will cost extra-money on top of the Enterprise Edition
[I guess] it will be released with 12cR2 because a such big change cannot be introduced simply with a patch set. So I think we’ll not see it before the end of 2014
And, uh, Maria Colgan has given up the Product Management of the Cost Based Optimizer to become the Product Manager of the In-Memory option. Tom Kyte will take the ownership of the CBO.
M6-32 Big Memory Machine
I’ve paid much less attention for this new announcement. The new big super hyper machine engineered by Oracle will have:
1024 DIMMS
32TB of DRAM
12 cores per processors
96 threads per processor
This huge memory machine can be connected through InfiniBand to an Exadata to rely on its storage cells.
But it will cost 3M$, so it’s not really intended for SMBs or for the average DBA, that’s why I don’t care too much about it…
Only 8 minutes in the keynote to introduce this appliance that is really hot, IMHO. This… oh my… let’s call it ODBLRA, is a backup appliance (based on the same HW of Exadata) capable of receiving the stream of redo logging over SQL*Net, the same way as it’s done with DataGuard, except that instead of having a standby database, you’ll have an appliance capable of storing all the redo stream of your entire DB farm and have a real-time backup of your transactions. That’s it: no transactions lost between two backup archives and no need to have hundreds of DataGuard setups or network filesystems as secondary destinations in order to make your redo stream safer.
I guess that it will host an engine RMAN-aware that can create incremental-updated backups, so that you can almost forget about full backups. You can leverage an existent tape infrastructure to offload the appliance if it starts getting full.
Your ODBLRA can also replicate your backups to an another appliance hosted on the Oracle Cloud: ODBLRAaaS! 🙂
To conclude, Oracle is pushing for bigger, dedicated, specialized SPARC machines instead of relying on commodity hardware…
Oracle Multi-tenant Self-Service Provisioning
There’s a new APEX application, now in BETA, that can be downloaded from the Oracle Multitenant Page that provides self-service provisioning of databases in a Multitenant architecture. It’s worth a try… if you plan to introduce the Multitenant option in your environment!
All products in the Cloud
Oracle now offers (as a preview) its Database, Middleware and Applications as a Service, in its public cloud. For a DBA can be of interest:
The Storage aaS, use Java & REST API (Openstack SWIFT) for block level access to the storage.
The Computing aaS allows you to scale the computing power to follow your computing needs.
The Database aaS is the standard, full-featured Oracle Database (in the cloud!) 11gR2 or 12c in all editions (SE, SE1, EE). You can choose five different sizes, up to 17cores and 256Gb of RAM, and choose 3 different formulas:
Single Schema (3 sizes: 5, 20 or 50Gb, with prices from 175$/month to 2000$/month)
Basic Database (user-managed, single-instance preconfigured databases only with a local EM)
Managed Database (single-instance with managed backups & PITR, managed quarterly apply of critical parches)
Premium Managed Database (fully managed RAC, with optional DG or Active DG, PDB and upgrades)
My considerations:
Oracle releases this cloud offering with significant delay comparing to his competitors
It’s still in preview and there’s no information about the billing schema. Depending on that, it can be more or less attractive.
As for other cloud services, the performance will be acceptable only when putting all the stack into the same cloud (WebLogic, DB, etc.)
Oracle on Azure
Microsoft starts offering preconfigured Oracle platforms, Database and WebLogic, on Azure on both Linux and Windows systems. I haven’t seen the price list yet, but IMHO Azure has been around since longtime now, and it appears as a reliable and settled alternative comparing to Oracle Cloud. Nice move Microsoft, I think it deserves special attention.
Will these announcements change your life? Let me know…
…and stay tuned, I’ll come soon with a new post about the my “real” week at the Open World and why I’ve loved it.
Ludovico
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Après Oracle Open World, IOUG Collaborate et d’autres grandes conférences, RAC Attack arrive également à Genève! Installez l’environnement Oracle 12c RAC sur votre laptop. Des volontaires expérimentés (ninjas) vous aideront à résoudre
Agenda:
