Speaking at Hotsos Symposium 2010.

Published February 5, 2010 oracle 4 Comments

I haven’t made a blog entry in about two weeks but that is not due to of lack of topics. I get a constant flow of email from readers with requested topics that they’d like to see covered in this blog.

I’m speaking at Hotsos Symposium 2010 next month and my presentation consists of a deep dive into a lot of the sorts of topics readers ask me to blog about. I’ve posted the abstract below.  The abstract is also posted at the Hotsos Symposium 2010 speaker page.

According to the speaker schedule I’m presenting in a time slot adjacent to Tom Kyte’s session about PL/SQL. So, if you are one of the 3 or so people who, for one bizarre reason or another, decide not to see Tom, perhaps you can attend my session. We’ll all be able to stretch out as there will be plenty of room :-)

Here’s the abstract:

Ten Years After Y2K And We Still “Party Like It’s 1999”

Whether you call it “the two-thousands”, the “Ohs”, “The Naughties” or “The Aughts”, the first decade of this millennium is over and it ushered in a significant amount of new technology related to Oracle. Don’t be alarmed, this is not one of those worthless technical chronology presentations. After all, is there anyone who isn’t aware that the decade started with the introduction of Real Application Clusters—and thus the demise of the large, central server—and finished with Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems? This presentation has nothing to do with any of that! In spite of how much technology has changed, we really do still seem to be stuck in the 1990s. The following is sample of some of the topics I’ll be diving into—deeply.

  • We still think a CPU is a CPU.
  • We still think memory is memory.
  • We still think bulk data loading is a disk-intensive operation.
  • We still think direct-attached storage is for “small” systems.
  • We still think database==structured and file system==unstructured.
  • We still think NUMA is niche technology.
  • We still think NFS is a file serving protocol.

And, of course, I’ll be talking a bit about Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the Oracle Database Machine.

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