2010 Performance Seminar

One day seminar with Craig Shallahamer

OraPub's One-Day 2010 Performance Seminar was created specifically for experienced DBAs and is squarely focused on advanced Oracle performance analysis. To develop the seminar, OraPub surveyed the most experienced students in the firefighting and advanced analysis courses and specifically asked what were the most memorable, valuable, and relevant aspects of the courses.

Craig Shallahamer is planning a day of intensive learning, which includes multiple aspects of Oracle performance tuning. We will learn how to analyze the resources consumed by competing processes and how to avoid hitting resource capacity limits. We will map the different performance problems and the specific techniques to approach each problem type. We will explore the relations between different components that impact performance and how they influence one another. Then we will take all this knowledge and learn how it applies specifically to the problem of free buffer waits, taking a deep dive into Oracle architecture in the process.

If you want to learn how to quickly solve Oracle performance problems, come take advantage of a full day of training by Craig Shallahamer on August 18 at the Carr America Conference Center in Pleasanton for $400. Register by July 10 to receive an early bird price of $350.

Craig Shallahamer, founder of OraPub, Inc., is the ultimate Oracle guru. He is technical - having just released his latest book, Oracle Performance Firefighting, he has also authored more than 23 technical papers, and the revolutionary book, Forecasting Oracle Performance. He is experienced - having co-founded the Core Technologies and the System Performance Groups at Oracle and taught more than 10,000 students on 6 continents in 23 countries. And, most importantly, he is a passionate educator who brings his life experiences and engaging presentation style to every class.

Seating is limited, so register early!

What makes this seminar unique?
  • What you learn can be immediately applied and demonstrated to your management.
  • The content has been selected from OraPub's most advanced students.
  • Delivered by Craig Shallahamer, well-known Oracle performance expert and author.
  • It's a practical and insightful weaving of internals, method, and advanced performance analysis.

If you find it difficult to get away from the office, or your training and travel budgets have evaporated, yet you still want to learn and propel your career forward—this is the seminar for you.

Seminar Objectives:

  • Learn about the many methods Oracle uses to gather performance data, their advantages and limitations, and how the analyst retrieves and uses this data.
  • Analyzing Resource Consumption: Learn how to measure network, CPU, and IO consumption and when possible their capacity limit using both Oracle and non-Oracle data sources.
  • Mapping the Terrain: Learn how to create a map of the performance terrain enabling advanced analysis including how to visualize the situation and extract insightful solutions.
  • Computing System Behavior Analysis: Learn how a specific performance solution affects the relationship between the user experience, application work completed, and resource utilization.
  • Resolving the Free Buffer Waits Event: Learn how to resolve the complex wait events "free buffer waits" by delving into Oracle internals and applying the previous seminar content.

This is a very practical yet deep internals seminar, filled with amazing discoveries about how Oracle works.

We hope you can join us!

Price:
Early bird (before July 10): 500$ for non-members / 350$ for NoCOUG members
Regular price: 600$ for non-members / 400$ for NoCOUG members
Schedule:
August 18, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location:
Carr-America Conference Center, Pleasanton, CA (Directions)

Target Audience and Required Skills:

This is an advanced class for Oracle DBAs, therefore you should be very familiar with Oracle's architecture and performance tuning. Due to the one-day class structure, the class moves quickly and there will be little time to delve into off-topic discussions or quickly fill a knowledge gap. If you are not sure, feel free to contact me.

More Information about OraPub, Craig Shallahamer and 2010 Performance Seminar:

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For more details and any questions or concerns, do no hesitate to contact me: training_day@nocoug.org