Presentation Title: Oracle 10g Change Tracking Inside Out
Speaker: Alexander Gorbachev
Company: The Pythian Group
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Presentation abstract: One of the new features in Oracle 10g is Fast Incremental Backups, which require that databases be run with Block Change Tracking enabled. While the usage of Fast Incremental Backups has been discussed quite thoroughly in recent years, the internals of the change-tracking feature implementation in Oracle 10g are still obscure. This presentation will show how change-tracking works inside an Oracle instance, and what CTWR does. It will illustrate how other processes are involved and discuss the overhead on your production databases caused by Block Change Tracking.

This presentation is for experienced DBAs with a good knowledge of Oracle database concepts, and of Oracle instance background processes and how they work together.

Presentation begins: 14/11/2006 13:50
Presentation duration: 45
Presentation content level: 2 (1 = indepth, 5 = strategic overview)
Audience experience: Experienced (2-3 years)
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Speaker biography: Alexander Gorbachev is a Senior Oracle DBA for The Pythian Group, a world-leading provider of remote database and systems administration services, with headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. Alex has been working with Oracle on unix as an administrator and developer since 1997. He is an Oracle Certified Professional DBA for 8, 8i, 9i and 10g, and has a bachelor’s degree in System Engineering from Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University in Russia.
Related topics: Server Technology: Server Technology & DBA Topics
Hall: 9