Talks at UKOUG TECH 2014 with CERN Speakers

This is a short blog post with a list of the talks at the UKOUG TECH 2014 conference in Liverpool with CERN speakers. Come and say hi, we hope to see many of you there!

• Modern Linux Tools for Oracle Troubleshooting (*)
• This talk covers a few examples of the use of Flame Graphs and perf for investigating CPU-bound  Oracle workloads and the use of SystemTap for tracing and measuring Oracle I/O
• A Closer Look at CALIBRATE_IO (*)
• This talk is about I/O testing, with examples based on drilling down on the use of CALIBRATE_IO and of SLOB for testing Oracle random I/O workloads.
• The Importance of Having an Appropriate Data Segmentation (Partitioning) (link is external)
• This talk covers practical examples of the use of partitioning in Oracle.

(*) slides can be downloaded from: http://cern.ch/canali