Public Appearances and Exadata Performance Training

April 2, 2013 by 1 Comment

I will be doing a lot of (Exadata) talking and teaching in the coming months. Here’s a list of events where you’ll see me speaking, teaching, hacking, learning and hopefully also drinking beer:

  • 16 April 2013 – UKOUG Engineered Systems Summit
    • London, UK
    • I will talk about the common Exadata performance lessons learned in my “4 years of Exadata performance” talk
    • Andy Colvin and Martin Bach of Enkitec will also speak there (yes, Martin has joined Enkitec in Europe!!! :-)
  • 30 April 2013 – NYOUG Training Day
    • Manhattan, NYC
    • This is the first ever public delivery of my new Getting the Most Out of Oracle’s Active Session History, Time Model and Wait events seminar!
  • 2-3 May 2013 – Advanced Exadata Performance seminar – in-classroom!
    • First public delivery of this class – and we’ll be going very deep into Exadata internals and performance ;-)
    • Irving, TX (in Enkitec HQ)
  • 13-16 May 2013 – Advanced Exadata Performance seminar – online
    • Same as previous, but online.
  • 10-11 June 2013 – My new ASH seminar – online
    • Getting the Most Out of Oracle’s Active Session History, Time Model and Wait events
    • More details will appear in the training & seminar page soon
  • 13-14 June 2013 – Oracle Data Warehouse Global Leaders forum (by invitation-only event run by Oracle)
    • Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • I will speak about my “4 years of Exadata performance” experience and probably learn from others’ experience too
  • 5-6 Aug 2013 – Enkitec Extreme Exadata Expo (E4) conference
    • Irving, TX
    • I will be speaking there, haven’t set the exact topic yet, but it will include demos and hacking something I suspect ;-)
  • 22-26 September 2013 – Oracle OpenWorld conference
    • San Francisco, CA
    • I will attend the ACE Directors briefing before the conference, likely speak, hang out at Enkitec booth, probably hack something at Enkitec’s Conference HQ for fun and definitely drink beer there. Maybe I’ll even attend the Wednesday’s party for a change!

As you see, my great plans to not travel much are not going to work out well :)

Actually it is better, this year I’ve managed to only travel twice so far (and one of the trips was for vacation!) and I haven’t had to do too many of the crazy around-the-world in 5 days trips I did when living in back Singapore… but looks like I’ll get to 2 million km nevertheless this year:

Tanel's Tripit stats April 2013

Well, see you in some corner of the world some day!

Filed Under: Announcement, Exadata, Oracle

I’m an Oracle ACE Director now :)

March 26, 2009 by 30 Comments

Many people have asked me that how come I’m not an Oracle ACE yet. From this week I am an Oracle ACE Director.

Here’s a link to my profile.

Its pretty big honor to be recognized by Oracle Corp at such high level.

I started working with Oracle software in 1997 and got really interested in that stuff after realizing how powerful the database was and how complex some internal details could be. Lots of opportunities to learn and learn I did!

I have been an Oracle Certified Master DBA for almost seven years now ( I took the exam in 2002 ). This is the highest certificate of technical skill Oracle gives out.

I’m also an OakTable Network member since 2004. In my eyes this is the highest recognition by industry peers an Oracle specialist can get. I’m very honored to be part of the team, not only because of the kick-ass knowledge everybody there has, but every member I’ve personally met is actually a cool person!

So, I think Oracle ACE status nicely completes the previous two “credentials” I had (and worked hard for!!!), OCM is the official technical skill recognition by Oracle, OakTable membership is the industry peer recognition and now the ACE director is Oracle’s recognition for my contributions so far.

I’d like to say thanks to Porus Havewala who recommended me for the ACE director program. Check out his blog if you’re interested in Enterprise Manager & such, he’s a Grid Control expert ( http://enterprise-manager.blogspot.com )

Ok, enough of ego-tripping for this year, back to work. I have a mutex contention troubleshooting article to finish ;-)

Filed Under: Announcement, Cool stuff, Oracle