Technology Day

Business drivers for

10g Migration

• SOX, PCI, HIPPA

• Implement database standards / procedures company wide

• Leverage Configuration Management Pack

Compliance & Standards

Productivity

• OEM / Grid Control (70 instances / single management console)

• Increase databases not DBA’s

• Better manage effectiveness

Cost Reduction

• Configure ASM to address any storage sub system

• Reduce the need to over provision

• Maximize storage utilization

Improve Service Levels

• Increase uptime

• Centralize all recovery related files

• Advanced Features reduce database outages

• Increased availability & reliability

• Improved functionality

• Remove the need for extended support

• Application support, lower quality of service

Getting “Buy In”

Kerry’s and Randy’s Top 10 List

Reasons why you

should upgrade to 10g

1. You’ll get fired if you don’t

1. You’ll get fired if you don’t

Well maybe not, but your boss won’t be happy if she starts having to pay extended support fees next summer.

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2. Looks good on your resume

If you don’t get it done by next summer you’ll need your resume to be spiffed up.

Seriously, learning 10g is a good thing for the Oracle professionals at your shop.

3. New Security Features

• PCI, SOX, etc…• Transparent Data Encryption• Password Policy Management• Protection from DBA’s• Encryption of Backups• Etc…

4. RAC

RAC works a lot better on 10g than it did on 9i.

5. Grid Control

• Visibility into all environments• Centralized Repository• Job Scheduling• Monitoring / Alerting• RMAN integration• Data Guard Integration• Extensibility – plug-ins, custom alerting• Policy Management• Configuration Management – patch notification

Grid Control

Grid Control

6. ASM

Automatic Storage Management– Used extensively in RAC environments– Provides lots of benefits to single instances– Better use of resources– Much easier to manage– Dynamic rebalancing

7. Flash

• Flash Back Query• Flash Back Database• Flash Recovery Area

8. RMAN

• block change tracking• compression• integration with Grid Control

9. Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)

• Active Session History (ASH)• AWRRPT – replacement for statspack• Repository can be used for custom reporting

Enterprise Capacity Planning

6 month history + 6 month forecast

Server Capacity Planning

6 month history + 6 month forecast

Database Capacity Planning

6 month history + 6 month forecast

10. It’s Free

Actually you’ve already paid for it through your support fees.

3,000 man-years of development???

Caveats

• Self Managing (slightly heavier footprint)• Fairly Significant Optimizer Changes• Testing Applications is Key Success Factor• Be aware of new out of the box functionality

Questions

kerry.osborne@enkitec.com

randy.johnson@enkitec.com