The last day of Open World has come and gone, along with good friends and a good time to explore new ideas. More 11g and RAC was had, along with the Applications Database Optimization Panel. It was lightly attended given the high powered panel members including Mark Farnham, Cary Millsap, Graham Wood and Ahmed Alomari. Rounding out the panel were Mike Brown from Colibri Limited, Sandra Vucinic from the VLAD Group, myself and a little help from Larry Klein of Hotsos. After the panel and lunch it was off to an E-Business Suite panel and then Jerry Ireland and a great BPEL presentation highlighting the differences from Workflow.

One of the things that I took away from the conference is that performance tuning seems to have gone back to knob turning and looking at aggregated data. I guess the Oracle DBA profession is no different than any other human endeavor in that people seem to keep reinventing the wheel. ASH data and OEM are the current hot topics and there must be answers to our performance problems somewhere in all that data. I actually thought the “debate” was over, but apparently someone didn’t get the message. So, just in case anyone is listening, performance tuning is:

Response time optimization using the Hotsos Method R methodology

Workload measurement to insure resource headroom

Workload reduction using the AppsDBA methodology

The after conference party was very nicely done and not too crowded and all in all I think this was the best Open World yet.

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