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.