OOUG Meeting Agenda October 30, 2008 print

Our October meeting is sponsored by Quest Software and tailored for the OOUG membership.

Sponsored by:

Meeting Location:

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

This facility provides free wireless internet access.

Registration:

Please register by Tuesday, October 28^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:

Oracle Exadata - Extreme Performance

Data warehouses are tripling in size every two years and supporting ever-larger databases with ever increasing demands from business users to get "answers" faster requires a new way to approach this challenge. Oracle Exadata overcomes the limitations of conventional storage by utilizing a massively parallel architecture to dramatically increase data bandwidth between database and storage servers. In this keynote, we'll examine these limitations and demonstrate how Oracle Exadata delivers extremely fast and completely scalable, enterprise-ready systems. In addition, you'll learn how Oracle Exadata can improve query performance for data warehouses by at least a factor of10x.

Database Tuning

Database tuning is a very critical aspect of overall application and system performance. It has traditionally been a complex activity, requiring a high level of expertise in several areas: query optimization, access design, and SQL design. Through Oracle Enterprise Manager and the use of tuning and diagnostic packs, Oracle has provided management tools to quickly identify and solve performance problems.

Jeffrey Cowen and Fred Louis have identified their "top 10 list" of the most common performance challenges that face DBAs. They will present solutions to those challenges and demonstrate how the Oracle management tools can be used to deliver enhanced speed to your applications.

Lunch and Learn

Demonstration of the Quest software.

Toad for Oracle 9.7 product demo

Toad for Oracle:

• Supports a Database Development Best Practices Methodology
• Supports a development workflow
• Enables Rapid Application Development
• Delivers an automated code quality assessment
• Expedites SQL Optimization
• Provides Database Administration
• Includes Quest's World-renowned technical support
• Provides access to Toad's Worldwide user community

Development and DBA Best Practices

Speaker Information:

Jeffrey Cowen, Oracle Grid Sales Consultant,Oracle Corporation

Jeffrey earned a BS degree in Computer Science from Franklin University. His professional expertise and industry knowledge has been built over the last 8 years in systems development, Linux administration, SAN administration and customer service. He has worked for 2 years at Oracle Corporation helping customers in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions architect and implement database and management solutions. His experience as a DBA/Architect prior to working at Oracle allows him to evaluate customer needs with a real world perspective.

Mark Kurtz, Solutions Architect, Quest Software

Mark Kurtz has been with Quest Software since April 2000 and has held the position of Solutions Architect in the PreSales Organization since then. Mark started his career as a programmer/analyst for NASA supporting the Space Shuttle program. He became a DBA after moving into the health care industry and has managed several teams of DBA's in his career.

Outside of work, Mark enjoys spending time with his family, playing poker, and working on old cars. He is currently President of a local Volkswagen club and has a team of mud-bogging trucks.

Fred Louis, Oracle Enterprise Architect, Oracle Corporation

Fred earned a BSBA degree in Information Systems from Xavier University. His professional expertise and industry knowledge has been built over the last 25 years in software product support, database administration and customer service. He has worked for over 14 years at Oracle Corporation helping customers in the Ohio Valley implement database applications and information based solutions in their organizations. By applying his experience and knowledge gained over this time, he adds value for Oracle's customers by demonstrating how Oracle products can be leveraged to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their organization.

Graham Woods, Architect, Oracle Corporation

Graham Wood is an architect in the database development group at Oracle. Most of his 20 years at Oracle has been spent in performance related areas, including designing and tuning large high-performance systems, building monitoring tools such as Statspack, and in architecting performance and scalability features into the database itself. Most recently Graham has worked as part of the Oracle Manageability team tasked with simplifying the process of tuning the operation of the database which resulted in the development of AWR, ASH and ADDM to provide automatic tuning. Graham has presented at Oracle and third party conferences around the world primarily on topics of Oracle database design and performance.