Oracle Open World 2017 presentation

Hi,
I will be presenting about ASM internals in Oracle Open World 2017 conference on Sunday October 1st. Following are the details:

Session ID: SUN5682

Session Title: Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Internals

Room: Moscone South – Room 155 Date: 10/01/17
Start Time: 12:45:00 PM
End Time: 01:30:00 PM

See you there!

Update: Added the presentation file. ASM_internals_Riyaj_OOW2017

IOUG Collaborate 2017

I have a few presentations scheduled in IOUG Collaborate 2017, Las Vegas.

1. Session: 621: RAC Clusterware internals
**Date/time: Mon, Apr 03, 2017 (01:30 PM – 02:30 PM) : Jasmine A

2. Session: RAC cache fusion internals. ( OakTable track )
**Date/time: Wed, Apr 05, 2017 (09:45 AM – 10:45 AM) Room: South Seas C

3. Session: 479: An in-depth review of ASM and internals
**Date/time: Wed, Apr 05, 2017 (02:45 PM – 03:45 PM) : Palm B

Presentation files ( Updated after the presentations).

Thank you for coming to my presentation(s).

ASM review and internals
clusterware internals
RAC_cache_fusion_internals
rac_training_scripts

Come to Vegas 🙂

( Hopefully, I will have better luck in Blackjack tables too. That reminds me, I need to practice in the blackjack simulator 🙂 )

RMOUG Training days 2017

I will be speaking about the following topics in Rocky Mountain Oracle User group Training days (RMOUG, Denver) February 7-9, 2017.

Come to my presentations and say Hi to me 🙂

1. RAC Cache Fusion Internals and Performance Tuning RAC Wait Events – Tuesday 3:15PM to 5:15PM

2. Index and Redo Internals – Wednesday 4-5PM

3. Database In-Memory Internals – Thursday 11:15-12:15PM

RMOUG training days 2017

Here are the scripts and presentations as promised 🙂 Of course, no implied or explicit warranty.

rac_performance-wait-events pdf

rac_cache_fusion_internals pdf

inmemory_internals_riyaj pdf

index_and_redo_internals pdf

index_and_redo_internals scripts zip

rac_training_scripts zip

Disclaimer: These are my opinions based upon research and data, it doesn’t reflect the views of my employer.

OTNYathra2016

Over the last many years, some of you have invited me to attend conferences in India, and talk about Oracle RAC and performance. I have not had an opportunity to make it to conferences in India, until now 🙂

I am excited to announce that I will be participating in OTN sponsored Oracle ACE Director’s tour in India (April 23rd to May 2nd 2016), and presenting ( with deep dive demos ) about RAC, performance, and in-memory. This is a golden opportunity for you to learn some of the internal stuff that I talk about in my class too.

Refer http://otnyathra.com for further details.

I am also excited to be in the tour with Connor McDonald, Biju Thomas, Sai, and many others. Don’t forget to send an email to Sai, the conference rooms will fill out quickly.

Did I mention deep dive demos? 🙂

Update 1: Updating the presentation slides and scripts. Do ask if I miss any script that you are looking for 🙂

india_2016_files_v1

OOUG RAC day presentation files and scripts

Thanks for coming to my presentations in RAC day at Dublin, Ohio. Please find the presentation files below. Hopefully, I will get video files and upload that here too.

OOUG presentation files and scripts

md5 checksum of the zip file is:

$md5sum ooug_2015_pdf.zip
df8bdcbc02926e5bbd721514b473bf16  ooug_2015_pdf.zip

RAC day with Ohio Oracle User Group

I will be talking about RAC and performance in-depth, with lots of demos, in a RAC day training with Ohio Oracle User group on Nov 16,2015 Monday. Venue for the presentation is Dublin, Ohio.

Agenda for the day:

08:00a – 09:00: Registration / Breakfast

09:00a – 09:15: Announcements -Introduction of the speaker

09:15a – 10:30: Underpinning for Oracle RAC and Clusterware

10:30a – 10:45: Break

10:45a – 11:45: RAC cache fusion internals

11:45a – 01:00: Lunch

01:00p – 02:00: RAC Performance tuning Part 1 – Wait events and object tuning

02:00p – 02:15: Break

02:15p – 03:30: RAC performance tuning Part 2 – locks, library cache locks etc.

03:30p – 03:45: Member Announcements, Gift Drawings

Please RSVP to the co-ordinators so that you will have a seat 🙂

OOUG RAC day

Demos do fail.

I am an ardent believer of “show me how it works” principle and usually, I have demos in my presentation. So, I was presenting “Tools for advanced debugging in Solaris and Linux” with demos in IOUG Collaborate 2015 in Las Vegas on April 13 and my souped-up laptop (with 32G of memory, SSD drives, and an high end video processor etc ) was not responding when I tried to access folder to open my presentation files.

Sometimes, demos do fail. At least, I managed to complete the demos with zero slides 🙂 Apologies to the audience for my R-rated rants about laptop issues.

You can download presentations files from the links below.

Session_145_advanced_debugging_using_UNIX_tools

Session_189_Riyaj_Inmemory_internals_files

IOUG Collaborate 2015

I will be presenting two topics in IOUG Collaborate 2015 in Vegas. Use the show planner and add my presentations to your schedule 🙂

Session #189: April 13 Monday 9:15 to 10:15AM Topic: Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Internals. Room Palm B

Session #145: April 13 Monday 12:45PM-1:45PM Topic: Tools and Techniques for Advanced Debugging in Solaris & Linux (mostly live demo). Room Palm B.

RMOUG Training Days 2015

I will be talking in Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days 2015( http://www.rmoug.org), with live demos (hopefully there will be no failures in the demo). My topics are:

Feb 17: Deep dive: 3:15PM to 5:15PM – RAC 12c optimization: I will discuss RAC global cache layer in detail with a few demos. You probably can’t find these deep Global Cache layer details anywhere else 🙂

Feb 19: Wednesday: 2:45PM to 3:45PM – Advanced UNIX tools: I will discuss both Solaris and Linux advanced tools to debug deep performance issues.

Feb 19: Wednesday: 12:15PM – 1:15PM – Exadata SIG panel with Alex Fatkulin.

Come to Denver. Come on, it won’t be cold ( I think 🙂 )

Uploading presentation and scripts of the presentation files: RMOUG_2015_Riyaj_RAC_12c_optim files

Presentation files for Unix tools demos: RMOUG_2015_Riyaj_Unix_tools

In-memory pre-population speed

While presenting at Oaktable World 2014 in San Fransisco, I discussed the in-memory pre-population speed and indicated that it takes about 30 minutes to 1 hour to load ~300GB of tables. Someone asked me “Why?” and that was a fair question. So, I profiled the in-memory pre-population at startup.

Profiling methods

I profiled all in-memory worker sessions using Tanel’s snapper script and also profiled the processes in OS using Linux perf tool with 99Hz sample rate. As there is no other activity in the database server, it is okay to sample everything in the server. Snapper output will indicate where the time is spent; if the time is spent executing in CPU, then the perf report output will tell us the function call stack executing at that CPU cycle. Data from these two profiling methods will help us to understand the root cause of slowness.

1. @snapper.sql out,gather=stw 600 10 “select sid from v$session where program like ‘%W00%'”
2. Perf tool : perf record -F 99 -u oracle -g sleep 3600