February 2010

NoCOUG is hosting its winter conference next week – On February 11th.
As usual, we’ll have the best speakers and presentations ever. This time I’m extra happy because two of the speakers that are going to be there, Dr. Neil Gunther and Robyn Sands, are there because I was wowed by them in a previous conference and asked our Director of Conference Programming to invite them. And they agreed! I believe it is the first time that either of them presents at NoCOUG and I’m very excited about this.

I’m sure I don’t need to introduce Robyn Sands to any Oracle professional – She’s an OakTable member who talks a lot about the right ways to manage performance. She is very scientific and precise but she gives very practical advice that is very applicable.

Dr. Neil Gunther is a well known performance expert. So well known that he has his own Wikipedia article. I first ran into his work when I did performance testing work, something like 6 years ago. From his articles, I learned the importance of having performance models without which you cannot interpret your results and know when your tests were faulty. I ran into him again when Tanel Poder mentioned that Dr. Neil Gunther is now doing work that will be relevant to Oracle professionals. He appeared in HotSos few years back and now we get to see him at NoCOUG – with both a keynote session and a technical session. He invited the crowds to ask questions at his blog, so you can participate.

Coskan Gundogar and Karl Arao have written two interesting articles about Oracle performance analysis and visualization, check these out!
Coskan’s article:
http://coskan.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/working-with-statspack-part-1a-di... Karl’s article:
http://karlarao.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/workload-characterization-using... Note that in March I will be releasing PerfSheet v3.0, which will have lots of improvements! ;-)

Coskan Gundogar and Karl Arao have written two interesting articles about Oracle performance analysis and visualization, check these out!

Coskan’s article:

• http://coskan.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/working-with-statspack-part-1a-diagnosis/

Karl’s article:

• http://karlarao.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/workload-characterization-using-dba_hist-tables-and-ksar/

Note that in March I will be releasing PerfSheet v3.0, which will have lots of improvements! ;-)

Coskan Gundogar and Karl Arao have written two interesting articles about Oracle performance analysis and visualization, check these out!
Coskan’s article:
http://coskan.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/working-with-statspack-part-1a-di... Karl’s article:
http://karlarao.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/workload-characterization-using... Note that in March I will be releasing PerfSheet v3.0, which will have lots of improvements! ;-)