Oregon and Southern Washington Oracle User Group
 
General Meeting: Tuesday, May 12, 2009   8:30AM


First speaker will be from TEK Systems.  They will explain the current job market for Oracle professionals.
This will run approximately 15-20 minutes depending on interest levels.

Maxina Carvey from Oracle Corporation will open a discussion and presentation on Grid Control. 
Since Oracle has given several educational forums recently, Mrs. Carvey will focus on detailing areas
not covered, and areas which have been requested. The focus includes Grid Control for RAC. There
will also be detailed information covering the Provisioning Package for user accounts. Mrs. Carvey is an
expert on OEM and the Grid Controls, bring all of your questions.

David Alexander, who many of you have known for many years of service to Oracle pre-sales
technical support team is going to present the second half of his talk from his new career with IBM
Mr. Alexander will present information regarding Data Management using the OPTIM portfolio solution which
manages application data across the enterprise.  With Mr. Alexanders combined experience with
Oracle and IBM, he will present how to integrate the two.  This should be an interesting approach
to Data Management.

Please remember to RSVP  Jon Wasserman at:  jsw@oswoug.org
Breakfast will be provided by Tek Systems and we would like to have enough for everyone.

CLASSES:  Karen Morton is currently offering several classes.  Email Jon Wasserman jsw@oswoug.org or Karen Morton directly with questions.  

Previous Meetings

Maxina Parks
Oracle Technical Sales Support
Ms. Parks will present Oracle 11g.
 
David Alexander, Data Architect
IBM Software Group, Worldwide Sales
 
    IBM's Integrated Data Management (IDM) software initiative with new offerings from the Optim™ portfolio helps organizations manage application data with greater consistency across the enterprise. Companies can manage data seamlessly across each phase of the lifecycle, from requirement to retirement, to align with their business goals. Building upon a foundation of shared information, teams can develop and deploy enterprise-ready applications faster, with better performance, while mitigating governance risks.

   This roughly hour long presentation and demo will expose the Optim technology to the Oracle Community who may not now be familiar with Optim.  Specifically, the presentation will address the following topics.  This presentation will be delivered by David Alexander.  Many of you have known David for years during his tenure with Oracle Corporation.  

   Optim is a fully heterogeneous tool, supporting many different databases, applications and platfoms.  
Tuesday, May 12, 2008
Karen Morton
Director, Consulting & Education
Method R Corporation
The Cary Millsap Company
 
Oracle continues to add more and more automated features and advisors (i.e. ADDM, AWR, ASSM, SQL Tuning Advisor, etc.).  Given all this automation and advice Oracle is providing, a question to ask is whether or not all this advice is "dumbing us down" or "smartening us up".  Too often more automation can lead to using these features as a crutch and bypassing the acquisition of key skills and knowledge.  Ideally, these features should be tools to help us do our jobs better instead of simply letting Oracle do it for us.  The risk is becoming trained to only follow the advisors output, but when a situation arises where our skills and knowledge are needed, it's not there.  This presentation looks at some of these automations and the knowledge and critical thinking skills needed by the DBA or Developer to understand and use them properly and effectively.
 
David Driscoll
Senior Systems Engineer
Pillar Data Systems
 
Smart Storage Devices designed specifically for Oracle Databases.  Designed to work with all major storage hardware. This will be a deep dive into the workings of artificial intelligence for database storage.
 
Tuesday, May 13, 2008  8:30am - 11:30am
Bill Slocumb,  Oracle Corporation
Oracle Applications: The newest method for sizing the system.
 
 February 12 Meeting: 
David Alexander, Oracle Corporation  
 
 Paul Veilleux, Global Sales Director, Pillar Data Systems
Presentation
Simplifying the storage grid for Oracle 10g/11g Database

 

LOCATION:

The Standard Insurance Center

900 S.W. Fifth Avenue

Portland, OR 97204

Room: Standard Auditorium, C Level

(down the escalator to the bottom level).

The meeting starts at 8:30 a.m.