| 2nd November 2005 | PeopleSoft: A Properly Instrumented Application! | Presented to UKOUG 2005, Hotsos Symposium 2006 |
| Most Oracle professionals now realise that timed based metrics are THE reliable way to diagnose performance problems, instead of using various ratios. It is ironic that as this change has come about, the effectiveness of the Oracle timed-event instrumentation has been degraded because more time is spent in the ever-increasing layers of software between the user and the database. Database idle time may actually be application busy time. We know what to do when the problem is in the database, but what about when most of the response time is 'SQL Net message from client'? This presentation will look at how PeopleSoft (before it was acquired by Oracle) sought to address the problems of measuring application performance with their Performance Monitor utility, and whether they were successful. "...a good follow on to my talk which was just about instrumentation of applications in general. It was interesting to see what [PeopleSoft] had done (and it appears rather comprehensive, it definitely makes figuring out “where the time is being spent” in PeopleSoft much easier." - Tom Kyte | ||
| 5th September 2005 | PIA Load Balancing, JVMs and Garbage Collection | Presented to PeopleSoft UK Tech PUG |
| A short presentation looking at some recent experiences of PIA load balancing with the Weblogic plug-in to IIS Proxy, and some ideas for improving the stability of the JVM by choosing a new garbage collector. Further reading: Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition by Bruce Eckel - see http://www.bruceeckel.com/ for a local mirror site. In particular see Chapter 4: Cleanup: finalization and garbage collection | ||
| 9th March 2005 | PeopleTools Application Server & BEA/Tuxedo Internals | Presented to PeopleSoft UK & Ireland RUG |
| A detailed technical presentation describing BEA/Tuxedo's internal architecture, and how it has been utilised by PeopleSoft. Including how the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA), introduced from PeopleTools 8, has been implemented. This presentation describes how to monitor, size and tune the application server. Further reading: PeopleSoft Timeouts by Graham Smith (need to sign up to the PeopleSoft Technical Product User Group at http://ccgi.sprinklies.plus.com) | ||
| 10th March 2005 | SQL*Fingerprints | Presented to PeopleSoft UK Tech PUG, PeopleSoft UK & Ireland RUG and UKOUG 2005 |
| Database performance tuning techniques often concentrate on which SQL statements are performing poorly. It is relatively easy to identify the individual SQL statements that are costing the most time. Adjusting indexes, or forcing particular execution plans with stored outlines often isn't adequate, and you really do need to change the SQL. This presentation will discuss how to find SQL statements in the PeopleSoft application. Once you can find them, you can change them. | ||
| 10th January 2005 | PeopleTools 8.45 Upgrade Musings | Presented to PeopleSoft UK Tech PUG |
| I have recently migrated a Financials system from PeopleTools 8.41/Oracle 8i/Windows 2000 to PeopleTools 8.45/Oracle 9i/Solaris 9. It was an interesting and sometimes frustrating experience. This presentation describes some of the problems, and their solutions. | ||
| 3rd June 2004 | PeopleSoft Ping | Presented to PeopleSoft UK Tech PUG |
An overview of the PeopleSoft Ping utility.
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| 26th June 2003 | Configuring PeopleSoft Internet Architecture on Windows/2000 | Presented to PeopleSoft UK RUG |
| This presentation explains how NERC configured their application server and web servers such that different environments on the same node could run different versions of PeopleTools. | ||
| 3rd January 2003 | Performance Metrics: What to Measure in the PeopleSoft 8 Environment | Presented to PeopleSoft UK Tech SIG |
| This presentation is discussed the theory and practice of collecting and interpreting performance metrics. It is based on the Performance Tuning at UBS given at EMEA2002. | ||
| 23rd January 2002 | PeopleTools Application Server & BEA/Tuxedo Internals (Note: This is an presentation is based on PeopleTools 7.5x) | Presented to PeopleSoft UK RUG Tech SIG, originally presented to PeopleSoft EMEA 2001 Conference. |
| A detailed technical presentation describing BEA/Tuxedo's internal architecture, and how it has been utilised by PeopleSoft. Including how the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA), introduced from PeopleTools 8, has been implemented. This presentation describes how to monitor, size and tune the application server. Companion document: Advanced Tuxedo for PeopleSoft | ||
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