Webinars
Past Webinars
A Sneak Peek at SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups
SQL Server 2012 has quite a few features aimed towards providing High Availability for database architectures. In this webcast, Pythian Senior Consultant & Microsoft MVP, Edwin Sarmiento will explore the new AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature for high availability and disaster recovery and the increased productivity created by read-only access to secondary database mirror replicas. Don’t miss this informative session, Watch Now.
An Insider's Guide to Oracle Database Performance
In this webinar, Senior Consultant and Oracle ACE Director, Gwen Shapira will review the architecture and components of the Oracle Database Appliance with an emphasis on expected performance, and present results of benchmarks run by Pythian to assess its true capabilities. Gwen will also share industry best practices used by Pythian experts when planning any kind of database migration and consolidation. Gain valuable insight on performance and capacity planning tips to help enable you to make effective decisions for your own environment, Watch now.
The Ins and Outs of Using MySQL Cluster 7.x in The Cloud
Increasingly, organizations are looking to MySQL clustering as a solution for High Availability and write scalability issues. Based on real world experience Marco Tusa, Team Lead for MySQL at Pythian, will explore installation tips & tricks, how to configure MySQL Cluster to achieve optimal performance, gotchas to avoid, and whether it's possible to have Node group distribution. Watch now.
HOWTO: Implementing ASM Successfully
Oracle ASM has been one of the most successful new features since Oracle Database 10g but migrating data to another storage platform represents number of challenges and ASM adds new flavours to DBA responsibilities. For those evaluating this technology, or are on the migration path Alex Gorbachev helps plan your migration without having to discover of ASM from scratch. Watch now.
Is Exadata For You? - View Recording.
Part 3 in our Oracle Exadata webinar series. Oracle Exadata has become the fastest growing Oracle product in history and every IT manager is curios how it can help their business. In this session Alex Gorbachev, Pythian CTO looks at Exadata suitability for various environments and what problems it solves for IT and business. Based on Pythian’s Oracle Exadata experience at LinkShare Corporate and deep understanding of Oracle technologies, the session steps through the benefits of Oracle Exadata in different deployment scenarios to help you justify the technology for the right projects - data warehousing, OLTP, database consolidation as well as hybrid environments.
After hearing the session you will walk away being able to assess your own situation and the potential for an Oracle Exadata deployment, and learn when Exadata is especially good fit. Watch now.
Exadata Project Results & Details: LinkShare Implementation - View Recording.
Part 2 in our Exadata webinar series. Pythian recently announced the successful deployment of Exadata at LinkShare Corporation. The results of the project are in and will be shared in this session led by Marc Fielding, Pythian Senior Consultant, and technical lead on the implementation.
CIO, Directors of IT, VPs of Operations, and anyone considering a migration to or consolidation on Oracle Exadata or who are looking for a high performance data warehousing solution should attend. Watch now.
Implementing Oracle Exadata - Strategies for Success - View Recording.
Join Marc Fielding, Senior Consultant with Pythian’s Advanced Technology Group for "Implementing Oracle Exadata – Strategies for Success" Webinar. Learn the significant business and performance advantages offered by the integrated technology of Oracle Database Machine and Exadata including reduced costs, shorter deployment time, superior performance, increased functionality and streamlined support. Experiences with hybrid columnar compression, integrating real-time data updates from multiple sources, performance tuning, and 24x7x365 high availability will be discussed, with best practices and pitfalls to avoid. CIOs, Directors of IT, VPs of Operations, or anyone considering a migration to Oracle Exadata or a looking for a high performance data warehousing or consolidation solution will find this session valuable.
Oracle RAC Workload Management with Alex Gorbachev, Spring 2009 (Quicktime, 26.8 Mb)
Are you considering running Oracle RAC (or are already doing so)? Do you want to learn how Oracle database handles workload balancing in different scenarios and which features should be used in what case?
In this webinar, Pythian’s Alex Gorbachev explains how to choose the right approach for your applications and also discusses the limitations you could face.
This webinar is aimed at Database Managers and IT Architects who are planning to move their applications to RAC or who have already done so and are looking to improve their efficiency. General understanding of RAC technology is helpful.
Oracle RAC — Why VIPs? with Alex Gorbachev
One of the topics that beginner RAC DBA’s (along with Network Engineers supporting Oracle database infrastructure) are confused about is the Virtual IP usage in Oracle RAC starting from Oracle Clusterware 10g.
With this videocast, Pythian's Alex Gorbachev will try to clarify those concerns once and for all.
Partitioning in MySQL 5.1 by Sheeri K. Cabral
Sheeri Cabral presented a session on the new partitioning feature in MySQL 5.1 at the January 2009 Boston User Group. In it she defines partitions, how partitioning makes queries faster, the different types of partitioning and when to use each type, and the restrictions and limitations of partitioning.
