Oracle is making changes to the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) Program to better mirror the types of companies they do business with. The requirements for membership are intended to align with their partners’ business models and offer benefits that support the growth of the partner network.

Why do I think they have made the changes?

They are looking to improve the Partner Network and ensure that it supports the partner community, are wide-ranging and flexible enough to allow new partners join Oracle and Offer tools and resources to help our partners develop their Oracle portfolio and deliver more services to clients. Looks like a good thing to me.

Quantix achieved the highest Oracle partner status (Certified Advanatage Partner) in 2005 and have since go on to be nominated for numerous awards including 'Oracle Technology Partner of the Year' at the end of 2007.

This goes to show the high quality of Oracle Services that Quantix is able to offer to a wide range of clients but also emphasises the status Quantix has within the Oracle Partner Network.

Amazing Oracle data compression benefits

In an outstanding Oracle paper titled “data compression in Oracle, Oracle employees Poess and Potapov deliver one of the most comprehensive tests of Oracle OLAP data compression using industry recognized TPC test case techniques.

This Oracle whitepaper describes some very important details on using Oracle data compression for very large Oracle databases:

http://www.vldb.org/conf/2003/papers/S28P01.pdf

Among the findings is the important suggestion that using Oracle table compression may actually improve the performance of your Oracle database:

“The reduction of disk space using Oracle table compression can be significantly higher than standard compression algorithms, because it is optimized for relational data.

It has virtually no negative impact on the performance of queries against compressed data; in fact, it may have a significant positive impact on queries accessing large amounts of data, as well as on data management operations like backup and recovery.”

This compression paper also suggestion that using a large blocksize may benefit Oracle databases where rows contain common redundant values:

“Table compression can significantly reduce disk and buffer cache requirements for database tables. Since the compression algorithm utilizes data redundancy to compress data at a block level, the higher the data redundancy is within one block, the larger the benefits of compression are.”

The article also cites evidence that Oracle table compression can reduce the time required to perform large-table full-table scans by half:

“The fts of the non-compressed table takes about 12s while the fts of the compressed table takes only about 6s.”


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UKOUG 2008

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Guest speakers include:
Tom Kyte, Oracle Corporation Vice President
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