Before I start to summarize my Day 5 at Oracle OpenWorld, I would like to add few words to day 4 (Wednesday).
Managing Very, Very Large XML Documents with Oracle XML Database
It was very good session. It one of those where practical experience was shared. Presenters showed step by step how to load very large XML files to DB:
- Setting up XML schema
- Schema annotation technique and few directives
- Direct Insert Store for XML
- Differences with loading XML into XML DB in 10.2g and 11g
The Appreciation Event.
It was very nice concert on Treasure Island. I’ve especially liked Seal. Beside that there was lot of good food and drinks.
Day 5
I will start with session Oracle’s New Database Accelerator: Query Processing Revolutionized. As I’ve expected it was related to announcement made yesterday. My yesterday’s description was not perfect. Now I will try to fix this. First of all we have 2 new machines. But one them is included in the second one.Oracle Exodata Storage Server - it is hardware from HP: 2 Intel quad-core processors, 12 disks (300GB, 15RPM or 750 GB, 10 RPM) with disk controller optimized for best bandwidth and 2 InfiniBand connectors to connect to external equipment. The code for this product is HP DL180G5 (at least that was on one of slides). This computer is sold with preinstalled Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.1. The main role of this machine is to store database files. It cannot be used to store normal files.
The second hardware is HP-Oracle Exodata DB Machine - This one is rack box equipped with 14 Oracle Exodata Storage Servers and 8 DB Servers each with 8 Intel processors. On those DB Server runs Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.1 and Oracle RDBMS 11g (11.1.0.7). Even more – 6 such DB Machines can be connected into cluster.
Where is the revolution? In the way Oracle DB communicates with storage. There is new protocol iDB that allows to push query predicated down to storage. With this, number of data transferred from Storage to DB Server is minimized. This feature is called Smart Scan. It can be leveraged only when full table (or partition) scans occurs. And it still keeps all read consistency.
And here is technical spec from Oracle.
And short on my other sessions: Oracle Database Performance on Flash Drives
Very interesting session showing results of different approaches for using Flash drives. As an conclusion there was presented formula, when Flash drives can help with performance, and when it is better to stay with fast rotating drives, and when even with low cost but high capacity drives. As an side note when we consider power usage, Flash drives can be even more economic then traditional rotating drives.
Oracle ACE Director: Birds-of-a-Feather Tips and Techniques
Session lead by Oracle ACE’s: Lewis Cunningan, Arup Nunda, Edie Awad, Mark Rittman, Tim Hall, Hans Forbich and Bradley Brown. The session was Q&A style. ACE’s were answering questions based on own experience, and that is sometimes different that Oracle’s official recommendation.
Real-World XML DB Examples from Oracle Support
This was rather chaotic session, and did not gave me useful information- IHMO waste of time.
And the last session by Tom Kyte Reorganizing Objects
Tom have done great job showing different myths about when DBA’s should reorganize tables and indexes. It was really Great speech. Might be there was too much material for an 1h session, and everything was shown little bit in an hurry.
The day has ended with small party It’s A WRAP
While writing this I’m sitting in hotel and watching Fireworks over the San Francisco Port. Tomorrow I’m leaving San Francisco for 18h trip back to home.
Cheers,
Paweł
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