A week ago I returned from MEDIAS-2011 conference, which was held in Limassol (Cyprus). 
It was an exciting experience to speak at general Computer Science conference. This was also an opportunity to discuss topics beyond the usual scope of Oracle conferences and see non addicted to Oracle point of view.
As you may expect, my presentation was entitled “Exploring the Oracle latches”. You can download it here. The presentation contains more math and less X$ materials than usual. Also, I added several introductory slides about Oracle, its performance and tuning.
And, of course, Cyprus is a great place!
Thanks to Professor S.V. Klimenko for kindly inviting me to MEDIAS 2011 conference.
Thanks to RDTEX CEO I.G. Kunitsky for financial support.
Thanks to RDTEX Technical Support Centre Director S.P. Misiura for years of encouragement and support of my investigations.
Latch, mutex and beyond 
Andrey,
your blog is really great. I hope you will return to latches some day. I still do not understand contention on “cache buffer chains” latch. Why sessions have to wait for READ operations? You have wrote it has something to do with EXCLUSIVE cache buffer chains and I hope you will show us more, soon.
Comment by Pavol Babel — June 5, 2011 @ 12:09 am |