Oregon and Southern Washington Oracle User Group

Next Meeting: Tuesday, August 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.

NEW:  Job Postings (Updated: May 30) 

 

CLASSES: Using Oracle University Training Materials.

RESCHEDULED for July 28-30

Introduction to JDeveloper for experienced Oracle developers.
Details.

Instructor Don Young
Don has extensive experience professionally with Java and in teaching JDeveloper to corporations.

Monday - Wednesday, July 28-30, 2008

Oracle Performance Tuning with Kyle Hailey:  To be announced.

 

Previous Meetings

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.