Oregon-Southwest Washington Oracle User Group

    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