Oracle E-Business Suite Technology

For my last post prior to a Thanksgiving holiday, here's a treat for DBAs looking to squeeze some additional performance out of existing database hardware. 

Ahmed Alomari and Mohsin Sameen put together an excellent OpenWorld 2006 session on optimizing the performance of E-Business Suite environments via partitioning and purging.  Starting with a quick survey of how partitioning has changed from the Oracle 8 database release all the way up to Oracle 10g, Ahmed and Mohsin then dive into:

• Overview of partitioning benefits and some Apps modules that take advantage of this out-of-the-box, and custom partitioning
• Technical advantages, such as backup, index rebuild, and Cost Based Optimization (CBO ) implications
  
• Integration with Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for data storage on lower-cost storage devices
• Techniques and relative merits of range, list, hash, and composite partitioning
• In-depth discussion of index partitioning methods, including the new Global Hash Partitioned (prefixed) capabilities in 10g
• Useful data dictionary views for partitioning
• Before and after comparisons, and actual customer case studies with real statistics
  
• Review of purging and archiving programs shipped out-of-the-box with the E-Business Suite
  
• Samples of typical customer purging runs
• Review of the latest Purge Portal released with the E-Business Suite 11.5.10
• Sneak previews of Release 12 enhancements to the Purge Portal, like this (I can't resist a screenshot):

Related

• Partitioning and Purging Best Practices for Oracle E-Business Suite (PPT, 2.6 MB)
  (Username: cboracle, Password: oraclec6 to download)
  
• Using Database Partitioning with the E-Business Suite
• Apps Technology OpenWorld 2006 Presentations Now Available
  

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