Unix environments provides rich set of tools to debug performance issues. Even if the issue is complex to understand, if we use right tool for the job, we can identifiy the root cause of an issue quickly. In this presentation, I will demo tools such as truss/strace, pfiles, pmap, prstat, vmstat etc to show how you…

Many database administrators are enslaved by their consoles, completely dependent on GUI-based database management tools not only for notifications but for all diagnostics.  This presentation is about breaking away from that entrapment and getting into the Linux/UNIX shell and finding out what's really going on within the database server. This presentation will discuss the basic…

Unix environments provides rich set of tools to debug performance issues. Even if the issue is complex to understand, if we use right tool for the job, we can identifiy the root cause of an issue quickly. In this presentation, I will demo tools such as truss/strace, pfiles, pmap, prstat, vmstat etc to show how you…

Installing and using Oracle database software on Linux can be challenging for some.  Maybe due to the past where sometimes, things just did not go as smooth as expected with the installer.  But over the last few releases of the Database, things changed and installations on Linux is easy.  But what if you are not…

Successfully deploying and optimizing an Oracle Database environment can be a daunting task. In this session, you’ll learn about: The key ingredients for a successful Oracle Database 12c installation. A methodology to diagnose and remove performance bottlenecks by taking a closer look at the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel parameters that can affect the…

How to successfully Implement Flash devices into the Oracle database infrastructure using ASM. This session will go over the steps of implementing a flash device using Linux and Oracle ASM: Align Flash Device Set Linux environment tuning parameters for best performance Allocate flash device to ASM Allocate ASM disk to diskgroup

The presentation will cover Hardware level HA on the Cheap (relatively speaking) using Oracle VM, Oracle Linux, ASM, and Oracle Enterprise Edition. It will illustrate a successful enterprise level migration of Oracle databases from Windows-based bare metal servers to fully virtualized Oracle Linux/Oracle VM Server Virtual Machines. The primary drivers for the virtualization effort were…

With companies left with the ever evolving challenge of securing their IT database environments, Red Hat steps up by providing the ability to secure your Oracle database environments with the use of Security-Enchanced Linux, most commonly known as SELinux. SELinux is a security system for linux developed by NSA with the Manadatory Access Control (MAC)…

This will provide tips and tricks for simplifying the Oracle 11g installtion when using Oracle Linux 5 or 6.

In this session IBM will discuss the basics about running Oracle database on Linux on System z. IBM will review the infrastructure alternatives for running Oracle on Linux on z including several disk and networking options. Additionally, IBM will discuss the best practices of running Oracle guests (i.e., z/VM guests) on the System z. Various…