The Editors of New York Oracle User Group (NYOUG) publication - TechJournal - chose my article Exadata Demystified as the Article of the Year. Here is the snippet from the Editorial:

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Did you ever miss the older listener log file format and want to turn off the ADR-style log introduced in 11g? Well, it's really very simple.

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Oracle introduced the Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) with Oracle 11g Release 1. This introduced some type of streamlining of various log and trace (more...)

Many thanks for attending my sessions (I had a whopping four of them!) ar Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days 2013. I was pleasantly surprised to find some attending all four. Thank you. You all made my day.
Here you can download the slides and the demo (more...)

Thank you all for coming to my session - Exadata from Beginner to Advanced in 3 Hours - on an evening in the dead of winter and staying for 4 hours. It was an amazing experience for me to see the sheer volume of interaction, which can only mean the (more...)

Thank you all those who came to my sessions at PHLOUG in November. You can download the presentations and the demo scripts I used here.

Thank you very much for coming to my session "Beginning Performance Tuning" on the #IOUG track at #OOW12 Oracle Open World 2012. It makes the day for any speaker to see the room filled to capacity even at 9 AM on a Sunday morning. Much, much appreciated.

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Happy Friday! I thought I would jumpstart your creative juices with this little, really simple quiz. While it's trivial, it may not be that obvious to many. See if you can catch it. Time yourself exactly 1 minute to get the answer. Tweet answer to me @arupnanda

Here it goes. Database is 11. (more...)

One of the major news today was the hacking and resultant publishing of passwords in LinkedIn. Didn't hear about it? Well, read it here. In summary, someone smart but with head screwed a little askew decided to pull passwords from LinkedIn account using a little known flaw in the LinkedIn (more...)

Thank you all who came to my sessions at #IOUG Collaborate 2012 #C12LV on April 22-24 in Las Vegas. I had four full sessions, two panels and one bootcamp. Quite a busy schedule, as you can see. I also worked on some urgent performance issues at work during the week.

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The Arup Nanda Blog: AIOUG Webcast:Methodical Performance Tuning Part 2

Thank you all for attending the Part 2 of the Methodical Performance Tuning series. I hope you got something out of the 1 hour long session. You can download the slides and the scripts I used during the demo here.

As always, I will appreciate any feedback which helps me (more...)

The DBA SIG of the Northeast Oracle User Group has been revived (thank you, Lyson and Jeane) and I was honored to be the speaker of the first session of what I hope will be a long list of very successful like the old days. 

I started at 7 (more...)

Congratulations to North East Oracle User Group in the Boston area who has restarted the DBA SIG. This was a highly successful program that used to be held after work hours on a weekday in the Oracle building in Burlington. I was privileged to have presented there from 2004 until (more...)

A big thank you to all those you attended my session today. I sincerely hope you got something out of it. Here are the scripts I used in the demo. And, here is the slide deck, if you are interested.

Remember, this was just the beginner's session. We will have (more...)

Considering it was the last session of #OOW11 I was surprised to see a sizable number of folks showing up for my 3rd and final session slated for 3 to 4 PM on Thursday. Thank you for attending and for your questions.

Here is the slide deck. Note: please do not click (more...)

This is the penultimate day of #OOW11 and I am here at the hotel lobby trying to put some order around the myriads of nuggets of information I have had over the last several days.

The announcements this year have been centered around introduction of various new products from Oracle - Oracle Database (more...)

When you want to convert a database created in the default characterset to a multibyte characterset, there were two basic approaches - the safe export/import and the not-for-the-faint-of-the-heart alter database convert internal. In either case you had to follow a string of activities - checking the presence of incompatible values (more...)

Thank you all for attending my second session in #OOW11 - Exadata Management. You can download the slide deck here. Important: DO NOT CLICK on this link; instead, right click on this link, save the file and then open it.

Here is the slide deck.

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Thank you very much for attending my session "Exadata for Oracle DBAs" at #OOW11 (Oracle Open World), 2011. Here are the links to I mentioned in the presentation:


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