RE: Anything new from IOUG? + "OWI" Born!! (Anjo/Mogens, please n

John & all,
 I just used the term, OWI. I do not claim to be the originator of this term. But I like it very much.

 As for the ratios go, I did not use the 'R' word(s) ;) in my short presentation. It was, however, mentioned in the session abstract to get attention.

 My sincere thanks to all who attended my presentation.

 Regards,

• Kirti

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Mark,

This is from a first-timer at IOUG, so I may be way off here.

A lot of marketing blurb was thrown out at IOUG (probably a lot less than usual, and *much* less than Oracle OpenWorld in any case!). As for tools, many vendors were flogging the same ones, improved versions maybe. One which did make us say 'wow' was StorageXpert from Quest. IMHO, this is an excellent tool, engineered by our very own Gaja. I believe details are at the Quest site at www.quest.com. If you have EMC disks and are facing performance problems, I believe there is the best there is. (Or even if you have other storage devices, it would still give you the hotspots).

And NO, I do NOT work for Quest, nor have Quest stock!

And for others, I believe this was a major turning point and an eye-opener as far as the Wait Interface goes (This has (un)officially been renamed to OWI as per Kirti's slides :-). Most attendees 'saw the light' as far as CHR (Cache Hit Ratio) goes, and there were two distinct camps after the first few days - the 'CHR' and 'OWI'. No prizes for guessing who won the day! The massive number of defections and the absolute absense of CHR-based-discussions at the Performance round tables was clear evidence that OWI is here to stay! (Mr. R might still rewrite that book sooner than later!)

About 20 Listers met for dinner on Sunday night (and again in a larger group at the SeaWorld bash). The meeting was characterized by geek-talk such as 'Can you fit us all in one extent?' i.e. 'can we all sit at one table?'), 'Please coalesce' - 'please move in so that more people can fit into the aisle seats'.

Oh Boy, that WAS a lot of fun!

John Kanagaraj
Oracle Applications DBA
DBSoft Inc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Leith [mailto:mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:58 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Anything new from IOUG?
>
>
> Hi All that recently attended IOUG.
>
> If you don't already know - I sell "tools" for Oracle.
> (delete this now if
> you want to DG! ;P)
>
> I was just wondering if anybody at IOUG had any feedback on
> any "new" tools
> that were launched, or any tools that made a significant
> impact at IOUG?
>
> This is purely for "vendor awareness" for myself, as I like
> to keep up to
> date on anything new in and around our particular market
> place.. If anybody
> saw something and thought "wow!", I'd be interested in
> hearing about it. If
> you would like to contact me directly about this - please
> feel free, though
> I feel the list *could* also benefit from this..
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
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