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I’m excited to announce that Paul Vallée, Pythian Founder and Executive Chairman, will be on-the-air online this week with a free webinar — Database Platform Migration: when is it strategically appropriate to migrate existing applications to an open-source platform? It’s based on our 10+ years experience supporting proprietary databases, such as Oracle and SQL Server, and open-source MySQL databases on the other hand and what we learned on the numerous migrations.

One of the recent projects completed with one of our Australian clients — 1 TB Oracle RDB on OpenVMS migrated to MySQL on Linux with Heartbeat cluster for high availability.

On the other hand, one telco client in Sydney, which we provide Oracle support for, notified me that they recently migrated a MySQL database to Oracle because they couldn’t find high quality enterprise level support for it. I wish we were engaged with them earlier but they seem to be pretty happy of their move.

Folks, we are looking to bring a Senior System Administrator on board in our Sydney office. If you are interested or know somebody who would qualify, please contact Pythian HR. Remember that we are not hiring by the years of experience but by the skills, dedication and passion.

System Administration Position like None Other

The Pythian Group is a global leader in remotely delivered enterprise database and system administration services. With over 100 customers in a wide array of industry verticals, the work is exciting, fast-paced, and challenging. If you are ready for a change from the typical day-in/day-out drudgery of being a system administrator for one company or set of servers, The Pythian Group is for you. Our system administrators work in a small team of 4-6 team members, responsible for 5-10 customer environments. This means that you will never get bored or be forced to solve the same problems on the same systems, over and over.

This topic has been raised again and again and quite a few people have asked me how to configure RAC on VMware Fusions on Mac. This warrants a blog post, especially, that Mac is definitely the way to go for an Oracle DBA — a Unix desktop OS that just works. What can be better? Sorry, I digress without even starting!

Before I go any further, I should say that this is not a complete guide on the Oracle RAC install with VMware Fusion but just the hints on setting up shared storage for Oracle RAC using Mac as host for VMWare Fusion virtual machines (VM’s). The reader is assumed to understand how to setup Oracle RAC and has general understanding of VMware itself. There are plenty of guides on the Internet on how to setup Oracle RAC including VMware but they usually refer to VMware Server on Linux or Windows. Please note that I’m writing it largely by memory so if you hit any issue — please leave a comment.

Disclaimers are over — moving on!

Unlike my previous post, this time it’s relevant for everyone and not only those lucky ones in Sydney. ;-)

I have been presenting about RAC Connection Management on a number of conferences and I have done a white paper that is focused on RAC Workload Management. It was available to the conference attendees and now is publicly available so read on.

The first time I presented RAC Connection Management during Slovenian Oracle User Group 2007 conference. The amount of information I wanted to share was huge and definitely out of scope of 40 minutes presentation.

Gday everyone. This information would be most useful for the Oracle professionals in Sydney, Australia. I’m very excited to announce the Sydney Oracle Meetup (SOM).

We will be meeting regularly starting on Tuesday, 31st of March 2009. For each event, I’m targeting to have one or two speakers — sometimes with a formal full blown presentation and other times with rather informal whiteboard style sessions. The target is to meet fortnightly if we can manage such pace.

There will be lots of networking with peers and informal discussions. We plan to share the exiting news and projects as well as seek advices and hints to the challenges we are facing in database engineering. The format of the meeting depends on you — suggest your ideas, share interesting topics, day to day problems and discuss exciting projects you are involved in.

The current state of economy is far from its best and education budgets are cut first these days but worry not — the SOM is absolutely free and created as a community group. Don’t wait — register now and be part of the history — The Very First Sydney Oracle Meetup!