OOUG Meeting Agenda July 17, 2008

Our July meeting is sponsored by Compuware Corporation and is tailored for the OOUG membership.

Meeting Location:

5600 Post Rd
Dublin, OH 43017
(614) 410-4550

This facility provides free wireless internet access.

Registration:

Please register by Tuesday, July 15^th, 2008 by sending email to membership@ooug.org.

If you need overnight lodging, see the list of local hotels.

Meeting Cost:

• Free for 2008 OOUG members
• $20 for non-member attendees (cash or check only)

The meeting includes presentations, breakfast, lunch and snacks. Gift giveaways will vary but usually include drawings for Oracle books.  All attendees are automatically registered in the OOUG gift drawings.  Occasionally, vendor representatives will offer additional gift drawings that require attendees to register directly with the vendor in order to be eligible to win a prize - such registration is entirely at the option of the attendee.

Meeting Schedule:

Presentation Abstracts:

Real World Observations of RAC Performance Issues

In this session, the goal is to impart and summarize over a quarter of a century of knowledge, observation, lessons learned and the general realities around using cluster technology with Oracle's RDBMS.

Answers to the following questions will be covered, as time permits, include:

• What are the real RAC Adoption rates and what are my observations?
• Customers vs. RAC, just what is the real deal?
• What are the three reasons customers buy RAC?
• Will your application will be faster on RAC?
• Will your application scale on RAC?
• When is DR and RAC fault tolerance not the same thing?
• Why is the number three more than just a number?
• What is the biggest gotcha with RAC?
• Can we avoid concurrency, latency issues?
• What about RAC CPU channel resource utilization?
• Why do DBA's need to be understand the Network?
• Network Engineers vs. Database Administrators, who wins?
• Is there an solid argument for us to not use RAC?
• Testing, is it the secret recipe to successful RAC Implementations?
• You want to do what? (Q & A Session)

Upgrading From Oracle Database 9i to 10g: What to Expect From the Optimizer

When upgrading from Oracle 9i to 10g what should you expect?

• Changes in behavior
• Pre-upgrade checklist
• Post-upgrade checklist
• Correcting regressed SQL Statements
• What to expect in 11g

Customer Experience Measurement

You manage vast amounts of data.

You deliver that data to highly-trained and professionally managed end-users and intelligent customers Your data is called forth through a myriad of well-designed .Net and Java applications and Service Oriented Architectures. Your data moves at light speed through vast networks of unlimited bandwidth.

That's not always the case, eh?

Do you know how many of your end-users or customers are really happy? Today, few organizations can answer this question with any confidence or accuracy. Yet, as this presentation will demonstrate, it is only by monitoring and understanding each individual end-user or customer's experience that an organization can ensure a quality service.

Speaker Information:

Michael Erwin, Senior Technical Director, Oracle Corporation

For the past 28 years, Mike has worked on clustering technology into high performance solutions. During the past thirteen years, he has focused on optimizing the performance of Oracle Real Application Clusters and GRID technology by using the techniques and method pioneered by Cary Millsap. Mike served for ten years at Oracle Corporation as one of the company's leading performance and system architectural engineering experts. At Oracle, he wrote and taught several internal and customer courses, co-founded the RAC Pack, directed the highly successful North American Performance Architecture & RAC Consulting Practice and developed the RAC Accelerator as well as the Oracle 11i Apps on RAC consulting offerings before being asked to start the North American Fusion-Middleware Team. For the past three years, Mike worked at Hotsos leading the East Coast consulting team. Currently, Mike is a Senior Technical Director in Oracle's Advanced Technologies, System Performance & Architecture practice. Currently he leads the newly formed Enterprise Testing Technologies team.

Mike has been a featured speaker at Oracle OpenWorld, Hotsos Symposiums and numerous user groups around the world.

George Kachnowski, Product Consultant, Compuware Corporation

Mr. Kachnowski has more than 27 years experience in IT, spanning a variety of platforms and architectures. Mr. Kachnowski's expertise spans the areas of application development, testing, maintenance, and web enablement, with a focus on IBM mainframe legacy applications. He effectively positions the Compuware solution set of tools and methodologies for analysis, design, quality assurance, testing, data management, web enablement, application performance and monitoring.

During his career at Compuware, Mr. Kachnowski has held technical and management positions for end-user, quality assurance, software testing, application development and project management consulting organizations. Mr. Kachnowski earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Wayne State University, with a concentration in mathematics and computer science.

Gary Quarles, Technology Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation

Gary has a strong technology foundation with 22 years of experience in the IT industry. Gary started his career at EDS working as a developer on several projects. From there Gary worked at Lockheed Martin as a developer/DBA. He spent ten years developing systems for the Air Force and Department of Defense. Gary has spent his last seven years at Oracle as a Technology Sales Consultant.