UKOUG Presentation
I had a recent email enquiry after the slides from my talk at the technically excellent UKOUG Conference since problems with the website are preventing downloads currently. Reproduced below by way of a heads up is my email explaining that the slides are now available via the web, including to non-UKOUG members. Please feel free to take a gander, but remember that this was 72 slides plus 2 demos in 45 minutes complete with me talking. The slides therefore try to illustrate what I was saying rather than reproduce what I was saying on screen. For those who were there I’d love feedback on this presentation style which is significantly hard work to prepare, but I feel probably gives a better presentation experience to attendees. (Obviously this was my first attempt so don’t expect TED or Connor McDonald standard). I’ll probably use slideshare more in the future unless people hate it.
Thanks for the kind words. I’ve uploaded it to slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/nlitchfield/oracle-on-windows whether it will make any sense I’m not so sure since it was more of a talk around the issues whilst rapidly advancing through 72 slides and 2 brief demos in 45min thing. I rather suspect given your background it won’t tell you too much you don’t know either. Core points I wanted to get across.
1) Lots of people run Oracle on Windows and its a core product for Oracle.
2) The thread architecture severely hampers scalability on 32 bit windows in predictable ways (even though it was a sensible choice in 1993).
3) There are things you can do to work around 2, but really just run 64bit and have done with it.
4) NTFS is a pretty damn good file system and you might even consider compressing datafiles in a test/dev environment.
anyway hope you enjoy.