#RMOUG #ORACLE @ORAPUB @dbakevlar – I have been hosting and attending IT conferences for many years and my gage for a good conference is if i learn 1 thing and can apply it NOW, its a good conference. If i learn multiple things that i can apply NOW, its a great conference. The networking with other IT folks is Icing on the cake, I cant wait for that start happening again.
RMOUG’s first day made this conference a great conference already with presentations by Craig Shallamer – www.orapub.com and Kellyn Potvin-Gorman – dbakevlar.com. I was told a phrase one time and it holds true – “When you are Ready, a Teacher will appear” and yesterday – 2 teachers appeared for me.
I was aware of many of the items that Craig and Kellyn presented yesterday, but just didn’t “get it at the time, i first heard about them”. Craig’s keynote presentation, was on data mining and AI/ML from social media. Yes, i was aware that saving cookies would send that data to Google and others, but wasnt aware how widespread. Its kind of like “knowing a hot stove is hot and then touching it, after touching it, you are fully aware of the heat of the stove.” Craig went into detail how he uses much of the social data that is available to reduce spam emails and send the emails to the “Right” folks, the people that want that information. Although he didn’t go into detail, you could sense the importance of this data and how scary this data could be used. I think if you weren’t a little scared of social and website data, than i guess the “Teacher didn’t appear”. I plan to use much of the same data as Craig to help our user group reach the right people and expand our MOUS conference – so thank you Craig for the ideas around the data.
The other presentation i went to was from Kellyn Potvin-Gorman which was about moving Oracle databases and loads to Microsoft Azure Cloud. You could tell that Kellyn and her team spent many hours analyzing data and putting together charts and data to determine VM sizes based on load they have experienced. Between AWS and Oracle, this is the most comprehensive data on load and I/O to determining the correct VM size when you move to Azure. Also realized that to determine the correct VM size and storage to use was based on AWR reports from OEM and AWR repository (This was the Ahah moment). Lastly, Kelly mentioned that at this time Azure is ONLY supporting Oracle databases on IAAS platforms using RHEL, Ubunto and SUSE (CentOS if you insist). Note – ALL licenses are BYOL. One of the main questions i had was “What about the VMWare License issue with Oracle ?” and she explained this in detail and explained that Microsoft uses “Constrainted-VCPU” to hold down the costs of the typical VMWare license. There is no RAC offering or RAC support from Oracle (thats true for any cloud platform), but you can build a RAC cluster if you insist. So the summary of this presentation there are many ways to migrate your Oracle database to Microsoft Azure, but you will need to know and understand your current loads and understand what your VM size can handle.
Thank you to RMOUG, Kellyn and Craig for a great first day. You can see the presentation and get the handouts by attending the conference – $30 per day or $100 for the full conference – www.rmoug.org. There are many great speakers and presentations so its worth the cost.
–Mike
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