Webinars
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Is Exadata For You? - View Recording.
Part 3 in our Oracle Exadata webinar series. Oracle Exadata has become the fastest growing Oracle product in history and every IT manager is curios how it can help their business. In this session Alex Gorbachev, Pythian CTO looks at Exadata suitability for various environments and what problems it solves for IT and business. Based on Pythian’s Oracle Exadata experience at LinkShare Corporate and deep understanding of Oracle technologies, the session steps through the benefits of Oracle Exadata in different deployment scenarios to help you justify the technology for the right projects - data warehousing, OLTP, database consolidation as well as hybrid environments.
After hearing the session you will walk away being able to assess your own situation and the potential for an Oracle Exadata deployment, and learn when Exadata is especially good fit. Watch now.
Exadata Project Results & Details: LinkShare Implementation - View Recording.
Part 2 in our Exadata webinar series. Pythian recently announced the successful deployment of Exadata at LinkShare Corporation. The results of the project are in and will be shared in this session led by Marc Fielding, Pythian Senior Consultant, and technical lead on the implementation.
CIO, Directors of IT, VPs of Operations, and anyone considering a migration to or consolidation on Oracle Exadata or who are looking for a high performance data warehousing solution should attend. Watch now.
Implementing Oracle Exadata - Strategies for Success - View Recording.
Join Marc Fielding, Senior Consultant with Pythian’s Advanced Technology Group for "Implementing Oracle Exadata – Strategies for Success" Webinar. Learn the significant business and performance advantages offered by the integrated technology of Oracle Database Machine and Exadata including reduced costs, shorter deployment time, superior performance, increased functionality and streamlined support. Experiences with hybrid columnar compression, integrating real-time data updates from multiple sources, performance tuning, and 24x7x365 high availability will be discussed, with best practices and pitfalls to avoid.
Who should watch: CIO, Directors of IT, VPs of Operations, anyone considering a migration to Oracle Exadata or a looking for a high performance data warehousing solution.
About Marc Fielding: Marc Fielding is senior consultant with Pythian's Advanced Technology group, where he specializes in high availability, scalability, and performance tuning. He has worked with Oracle database products over the past nine years, from version 7.3 up to 11gR2. His experience across the entire enterprise application stack allows him to provide reliable, scalable, fast, creative, and cost-effective solutions to Pythian's diverse client base.
Oracle RAC Workload Management with Alex Gorbachev, Spring 2009 (Quicktime, 26.8 Mb)
Are you considering running Oracle RAC (or are already doing so)? Do you want to learn how Oracle database handles workload balancing in different scenarios and which features should be used in what case?
In this webinar, Pythian’s Alex Gorbachev explains how to choose the right approach for your applications and also discusses the limitations you could face.
This webinar is aimed at Database Managers and IT Architects who are planning to move their applications to RAC or who have already done so and are looking to improve their efficiency. General understanding of RAC technology is helpful.
Oracle RAC — Why VIPs? with Alex Gorbachev
One of the topics that beginner RAC DBA’s (along with Network Engineers supporting Oracle database infrastructure) are confused about is the Virtual IP usage in Oracle RAC starting from Oracle Clusterware 10g.
With this videocast, Pythian's Alex Gorbachev will try to clarify those concerns once and for all.
Partitioning in MySQL 5.1 by Sheeri K. Cabral
Sheeri Cabral presented a session on the new partitioning feature in MySQL 5.1 at the January 2009 Boston User Group. In it she defines partitions, how partitioning makes queries faster, the different types of partitioning and when to use each type, and the restrictions and limitations of partitioning.
