Oracle Database Insider Blog

As every time-served DBA appreciates, the basics of addressing performance problems haven't changed so much over the years. When faced with poor database application performance, DBA's have to first of all identify the cause of the problem, and then evaluate how best to remedy the situation. But, what has changed are the tools at our disposal to help us find and remedy performance problems.

In this latest video, our intrepid DBAs take the traditional DBA 1.0, and the new DBA 2.0 route to addressing their business users performance challenge. Enjoy!

Oracle has delivered another new world record price/performance TPC-C benchmark result of of 239,392 tpmC. This time with Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One running on a Windows-based Dell PowerEdge T710 server with a single Intel® Xeon® E5520 2.26 GHz processor.

Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One is an affordable, full-featured database for servers with up to two sockets. It provides enterprise-class performance and security, is simple to manage, can easily scale as demand increases, and is upwardly compatible with other Oracle Database editions.

How do industry standard database benchmark results factor into your business decisions? Please leave us a comment and let us know.

If you are in the Tulsa area - there will be discussions on

• lowering costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2


• Oracle Exadata V2


• Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
  

For details and registration to this complimentary event, see: http://bit.ly/2tuAYR

If you are in the Las Colinas TX area - the Dallas User Group meeting will have a presentation on Lower Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 at their November 18th from 4-6pm.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 includes new ease of use features that make Grid computing more accessible, compression enhancements that can deliver up to 20x compression ratios, and other exciting developments.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 for Solaris Sparc now available for download from OTN.

Oracle Database Vault is now certified for use with SAP applications (in addition to Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle Peoplesoft, Oracle Siebel and Oracle JDE applications) to help customers better secure their SAP applications and data.

Check out full story in the 'Security Inside Out' blog.

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Catch up on the latest information on Oracle Database with the November 2009 edition.

Coverage includes:

• a new world-record TPC-C benchmark reveals that Oracle Database 11g on Sun hardware


• organizations worldwide who are adopting Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Exadata V2 thanks to an unrivaled ability to lower IT costs, scale to meet data growth, and deliver extreme performance in data warehouses and OLTP applications.


• new podcasts, Oracle OpenWorld keynote replays, and much more

Be sure to check it out and Subscribe today.

Looking for ways to cut costs? EMC is consolidating on Oracle RAC and Oracle Database 11g throughout its data center, which has translated to $3 million in cost avoidance savings to date. Listen to our podcast conversation with Ramesh Razdan, Director of Enterprise Technology Services at EMC Corporation to hear how they've been able to do this and what's next for EMC....$7 million more in savings? ** EMC manages their ~700 Oracle databases with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

The TDWI Fall Conference was buzzing, and word was that there was a record number of new TDWI members attending this conference. It sure seemed like a full house at the Oracle Hospitality Suite on Monday night. Over 150 people stopped by to cheer on their favorite football team, play some pool and try their hand at the football toss. A good time was had by all!

The buzz continued on the show floor, with the Oracle booth drawing a big crowd Tuesday and Wednesday. With the recent announcement of Oracle Exadata V2 and the Sun Oracle Database Machine, there was a lot to talk about! There were also a lot of people interested in hearing about Oracle's GoldenGate acquisition and its new data integration product portfolio.

This time around Oracle hosted a free 2-hour Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Best Practices Workshop. Led by OBIEE product manager Alan Fuller, the session focused on best practices for dashboards, ad-hoc reporting, metadata design, and pro-active detection and alerts and attracted nearly 50 attendees.

But, the most exciting news of the conference was that a new Money Machine record was set - $228!! Who will break that record? We will be at the TDWI Winter Conference to find out!

Two of the world's largest Oracle User Group gatherings are looming up on the event calendar.

First up from November 17-19 is Germany's Oracle User Group annual event (DOAG 2009) in Nuremberg. In addition to over 300 sessions, there's a keynote from Oracle SVP Andy Mendelsohn (Tuesday 17th @ 11:00am) and a demo theatre featuring Oracle Real Application Testing, Oracle Application Express, Oracle OLAP and more.

Then on November 30th the UK Oracle User Group annual event kicks off in Birmingham's ICC, and runs until December 2nd. Oracle's Tom Kyte is one of the opening day presenters (Monday 30th @ 10:45am) with an interestingly entitled keynote "What are we still doing wrong?". Definitely one not to miss for all the Oracle Database developers and DBA's in attendance at Birmingham. And, look out for for some of the database Master Classes on offer featuring Oracle Application Express among many others.