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Oracle Open World 2010 has finally closed it’s doors now 2 weeks ago.
I stayed a bit longer in our HQ in Redwood Shores to meet with colleagues in a more relaxed environment and discuss several topics. And finally I’m back in my CET sleep schedule. Jet lag this time was horrible.

We’d like to thank again Andreas Ellerhoff from Deutsche Messe, Takashi Ikeda from Fujitsu Hokuriku Systems Ltd. Japan, Takuya Abe from Oracle Japan, Mark Richwine from Oracle Support in Colorado Springs and all the others who had helped us to talk, discuss and present …

And thanks to all the people who find their way on Thursday to our presentation Does Upgrade = Downtime? together with Takashi Ikeda from Fujitsu Hokuriku Systems Ltd. Japan and Takuya Abe from Oracle Japan.

Roy and me met Ikeda-san for the first time a while ago in Tokyo at a customer meeting together with Fujitsu Hokuriku. And he showed us the slides about the different approaches and comparison of upgrade methods for a very common case: Upgrade your database and move to new hardware. Even …

Thanks to everybody who made it this early morning 9am to the HOL session in Mariott even though last night was a pretty long one with Don Henly, the Black Eyed Peas and Steve Miller Band.

And thanks a lot to Roy for organizing the healthy typical American breakfast 🙂

You could download the HOL slides from here – use the keyword “hol“.

And in case you’d like to get the full upgrade fivehundredsomething slideset please download it from here and use the keyword “upgrade112“.

CU next year – and happy upgrades 🙂…

Yesterday Carol Tagliaferri and Roy Swonger gave the Most Common Upgrade Mistakes talk in Moscone South. It was well attended and afterwards so many questions got asked that the whole upgrade development team had plenty of fun taking all those.

In order to get the slides you could download them from here. Please use the keyword “mistakes“.

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Wasn’t “Go Green” the headline of last year’s OOW?

The healthy food provided in the breaks … 🙁…

Thanks to everybody who’d attend on our Hands-On Lab today in Mariott right across the street from Moscone West. And thanks for your patience, for your great questions.

You could download the HOL slides from here – use the keyword “hol“.

And in case you’d like to get the full upgrade fivehundredsomething slideset please download it from here and use the keyword “upgrade112“.

Thanks again 🙂…

On Sunday, the first day at Oracle Open World in San Francisco, Andreas Ellerhoff, the lead DBA of Deutsche Messe (German Trade Fair), the largest trade fair organization in the world, did his excellent presentation on the project “Move from failover clusters to RAC – and upgrade to Oracle Database 11.1.0.7 introducing Data Guard and ASM as well”. Deutsche Messe is an official Oracle Database 11g Reference customer.

The presentation was well attended. And the project itself is quite interesting as Deutsche Messe upgraded in 2009 the system to order space and equipment for trade fairs online …

… you’ll have an OOW badge such as this one:

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Oracle Open World 2010 will be launched in less than 4 weeks in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. So it’s now time to build your schedule, pre-register for your desired sessions – and maybe you’d like to visit one of our sessions:

Sunday, Sept. 19, 12:30PM-1:00PM – Moscone West L2/Rm 2010:
Field Report: Extended-Distance Oracle RAC 11g on Oracle’s Sun SPARC Platform
Deutsche Messe began to use Oracle Database 6 at the end of the 1980s and has been using Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) technology very successfully since 2007. In 2009 it expanded its high-availability strategy …

90 customers tested the upgrade to either Oracle Database 11.1.0.7 or Oracle Database 11.2.0.1 – or both! And do it either with Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA) or by command line upgrade – or both!!. And afterwards doing a downgrade or the EM configuration were possible options to get the most out of the 2.5 hours from the Database Upgrade Hands-On Lab.

Just in case you’ve attended you’ll be able to download the updated HOL Instructions (270 KB PDF).

We had a lot of fun – and we hope to see you again next year – and please let …

Basically this blog is a technical database upgrade blog. But hey, it’s Openworld … and this years appreciation event on Treasure Island out in the Bay close to Alcatraz had some really great bands in the line-up. Aerosmith with singer Steven Tyler was meant to be the top act. And they had the biggest audience. But in the smaller tent right at the end of the island a guy called Shooter Jennings played the startup gig. You’ve never heard about Shooter Jennings? Me neither. Actually this is not really correct as he did play in the Johnny Cash movie …

Oracle Open World 2009 – our Upgrade Development Group was happy to welcome more than 300 customers in this years talk
The Best Kept Secrets of Oracle Database Upgrades
highlighting 8 upgrade secrers and 6 upgrade myths.

Roy Swonger, Director Upgrade & Utilities Development, Carol Tagliaferri, Snr Manager Upgrade Development and myself run this years talk together. We put a strong focus on typical pitfalls such as not running the pre-upgrade check tool, not preserving sufficient performance information before the upgrade and talked about fallback strategies and successful Oracle Database 11g upgrades as well. Just by the …

Yes, it’s Open World in San Francisco. And today, Dr. Koeller from the Bielefeld University and me presented:

“That’s no joke: Upgrade to Oracle Database 11g with the full HA stack and patch in 2 minutes”

to cover the full 11g project at Bielefeld University started 2008.

The audience of approximately 200 participants seemed to be very interested as they stayed until the end 😉 And some Oracle SVPs seemed to be thrilled as well. We were quite happy to welcome the whole Upgrade Development team as well as Joe Meecks, the Data Guard Product Manager, Larry Carpenter, The …

It’s Oracle Open World time – just three weeks to go until OOW 2009 will start from Oct. 11-15 in Moscone Center in San Francisco.

We’ll be very happy to welcome you to one of our presentations:

• Oct 12th – 16:00h-17:00h – Moscone South 301 (200 seats) – Session ID: S309615That’s No Joke:
  Upgrade to Oracle Database 11g with the Full HA Stack – and Patch in Two Minutes
  Dr. Lars Köller, Bielefeld University – Mike Dietrich, Oracle Corp.Bielefeld University, one of Germany’s leading universities, upgraded and migrated all of its Oracle9i Database instances directly to