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Sponsored by: Knife River Corporation, MDU Resources & the Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
Time Topic
12:00pm - 12:30pm Welcome Lunch
12:30pm - 12:40pm Introductions & Keynote
Darlene Hesch, Chief Technology Officer
Knife River Corp.

12:40pm - 1:15pm

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Real Application Clusters (RAC) and High Availability
Jim Scheitel, DBA, Knife River Corp.

Jim will discuss High Availability fundamentals with Oracle RAC components including Interconnect, Shared Storage, Clusterware, OCR, & Voting Disks. Jim will describe Automatic Workload Management and Connection Management concepts. He will demonstrate VIP failover and Transparent Application Failover (TAF). Jim will discuss Split Brain condition and demonstrate Load Balancing methods by creating Load Generation using Oracle's SwingBench utility.
 

1:15pm - 2:15pm

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Data Guard and Disaster Recovery
Caleb Small, Camosun College

Caleb will discuss Disaster Recovery concepts and capabilities with Oracle’s Data Guard product. Caleb will describe various DR options for Protection Modes and Replication Methods including Remote Archiving and Asynchronous Redo Logging. He will describe differences between DR options including Fast-Start Failover observer, Switchover, and Failover. Caleb will demonstrate various Data Guard Manager capabilities using Data Guard Broker including configurations, databases, & instances.
 
-- Shows the current open mode and role of all
-- instances of the database on which it is run
-- (for example PRIMARY or -- STANDBY). Also shows the
-- status of the MRP and RFS processes on a standby.

SELECT inst_id, open_mode, database_role
FROM gv$database;

prompt redo apply instance is:
SELECT inst_id, process, status
FROM gv$managed_standby
WHERE process LIKE 'MRP%';

prompt receiving instance(s):
SELECT inst_id, process, client_process, status
FROM gv$managed_standby
WHERE process LIKE 'RFS%'
AND client_process LIKE 'LGWR%';
-- status of the standby redo logs on a standby
-- database

column last_time format a20

SELECT group#, thread#, sequence#, used, status, 
last_change#, TO_CHAR(last_time, 'dd-mon-yy hh24:mi:ss') AS last_time
FROM gv$standby_log
ORDER BY 1;
-- reports the maximum archive log sequence used
-- on all instances of a database

SELECT DISTINCT thread#, sequence#
FROM gv$archived_log
WHERE (thread#, next_time) IN (
  SELECT thread#, MAX(next_time)
  FROM gv$archived_log
  GROUP BY thread#)
ORDER BY 1;
-- current system Change Number of a database.

SELECT current_scn
FROM gv$database;
 


2:15pm - 2:45pm

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10gR3 Grid Control
Eric Olson, DBA, Knife River, Corp.

Eric will provide a Grid Control Overview and describe Architecture System Topologies for Service Level Management. Eric will describe features of Enterprise Management for Provisioning, Monitoring, Administration, Maintenance, Patching and Upgrades, and Reporting. He will demonstrate various Database and Operating System capabilities using the Configuration, Change Management, and Diagnostic Packs. Eric will also discuss Tuning Pack facilities and 3rd-party plug-ins.
 


2:45pm - 5:00pm

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Oracle 11g New Features
Daniel Morgan, Oracle Ace Director
Oracle Instructor: University of Washington

 
Dan, Oracle ACE Director and 11g Beta tester, will offer his hands-on take on Oracle Database 11g.Dan will provide a tour of new features and new implications of 11g. This presentation, live in SQL*Plus and presented in PowerPoint-free mode, will feature demonstrations of Virtual Columns, Invisible Indexes, Flashback Data Archive, Native Compilation, the new table trigger clause, and the new Result Cache.

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