The
NoCOUG Winter Conference was held on Thursday, February
21, 2002 at the Oracle Conference Center on the Oracle Corporation
campus in Redwood Shores. Some of the presentations from
the meeting are available for
download.
Meeting
Description
The
Winter Conference had parallel sessions on the topics of
database administration, application development, and a
special "Oracle by Oracle" track. Here is the agenda, followed
by session descriptions:
Note:
All sessions start promptly at the time scheduled.
Please take your seat early so as not to disturb other attendees.
08:00-09:00 |
- Registration opens |
09:00-09:45 |
- Opening Remarks and Announcements |
09:45-10:45 |
-
Keynote:"Oracle9i Database Overview"
Ken Jacobs, VP Product Strategy, Server
Technologies,
Oracle Corporation |
10:45-11:15 |
- Morning Break |
11:15-12:15 |
- Parallel Session #1:
DBA |
Development |
Oracle
by Oracle |
"Interpreting
Wait Events to Boost System Performance",
Roger Schrag, Senior Consultant, Database Specialists,
Inc.
Level: Advanced |
"Oracle9i JDeveloper
Part I: Introduction and New Features", Peter
Koletzke, Technical Director, Quovera
Level: Beginner |
"Oracle 9iAS
Overview",
Margaret Mei,
Sr. Product Manager, Oracle Corporation |
|
12:15-01:30 |
- Lunch Break |
01:30-02:30 |
- Parallel Session #2:
DBA |
Development |
Oracle
by Oracle |
"Top
7 Oracle Database Tuning Techniques and Case
Studies",
Lev Moltyaner, Managing Partner, Procase Consulting,
Inc.
Level: Intermediate
|
"Oracle9i JDeveloper
Part II: Developing Java Client and JSP Applications",
Peter Koletzke, Technical Director, Quovera
Level: Beginner |
"Oracle9i
Integrated Business Intelligence", John
Entenmann, V.P. Business Intelligence, Oracle
Corporation |
|
02:30-03:15 |
- Afternoon Break |
03:15-04:15 |
- Parallel Session #3:
DBA |
Development |
Oracle
by Oracle |
"Oracle9i
Real Application Clusters on 8 Node Intel-based
Clusters - An OLTP Case Study",
Kevin Closson, Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Database
Engineering Group, PolyServe, Inc.
Level: Intermediate |
"Be Careful
What You Wish For: Complex Data Types",
Fabian Pascal, Independent Consultant
Level:
Intermediate
|
"Real Application Cluster Overview",
Angelo Pruscino, Architect, Oracle Corporation |
|
04:30-??? |
NoCOUG
networking and happy hour at Players Billiards on Shoreway
Road, half a mile from the Oracle Conference Center.
Come network with your peers after the Winter Conference!
Snacks, drinks, and pool tables available. |
Interpreting
Wait Events to Boost System Performance: At
any given moment, every Oracle server process is either
busy servicing a request or waiting for something specific
to happen-a condition we call a "wait event."
The Oracle instance maintains detailed statistics of all
wait events-how many times each session has waited for
a specific event, total time waited, and exactly what
events are being waiting on right now. This information
can be used to gain insight into the performance of both
your application and database. In this presentation we
will define what wait events are, detail how to extract
wait event information from the instance, and learn how
to interpret the data we collect. Many of us have heard
of wait events and know how to query the v$ views, but
in this presentation we'll go further than that. We'll
walk through real life examples of how to use wait event
data to diagnose problems and boost system performance.
Top
7 Oracle Database Tuning Techniques and Case Studies:
Tuning experience is difficult to share because it is often
application specific. In this session we will define 7 practical
tuning techniques, including: eliminating inefficiencies
in process flow, utilizing intended indexes, adopting best
indexing options, decreasing PL/SQL context switches, reducing
IO contention, increase memory utilization and increasing
CPU usage by multi-threading. We will present a case study
of how each technique was applied and summarize its performance
gains. We will also illustrate how these techniques represent
a tuning methodology, which can be applied to any database.
We hope that each attendee will be able to identify immediate
benefits for their databases.
Oracle9i
Real Application Clusters on 8 Node Intel-based Clusters
- An OLTP Case Study: Clustered database technology
is a reality with Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC).
Compelling hardware economies and the robust horizontal
scaling characteristics of RAC are motivating data center
managers to investigate deploying applications on clustered
commodity-based hardware. Targeted to Database Administrators,
this presentation is based upon a case study of an Oracle9i
RAC OLTP application deployed on an eight-node Intel-based
cluster running Linux. Configuration and tuning tips,
along with lessons learned, will be covered. Special attention
will be given to alerts that can be gleaned from several
new internal (gv$) performance views. Additionally, platform
issues such as Clustered File Systems will be covered.
Oracle9i
JDeveloper Part I: Introduction and New Features:
JDeveloper is the tool of choice for Java development
because of its rich support for the Oracle database. In
addition, it offers the major ease-of-use and code-generation
features of a sophisticated Integrated Development Environment.
The 9i release added a number of powerful features that
you can use to assist in Java application development;
in addition to new features, some operations changed from
the previous versions. This presentation discusses and
demonstrates the basics of the tool as well as the major
new features and operations. This will help both the developer
who has not yet examined the tool as well as the developer
who is familiar with previous releases.
Oracle9i JDeveloper
Part II: Developing Java Client and JSP Applications:
JDeveloper's interface allows you to quickly develop bug-free,
default applications in many different styles. The development
challenges are in understanding these different application
styles and in knowing where to go in the tool to get started.
This presentation explains the characteristics of two
application options that you can create in JDeveloper:
Java Client or JClient (Java application and applet) and
JavaServer Pages (JSPs). It explores the architectures
of each of these options and compares their benefits and
drawbacks as well as how to use JDeveloper to develop
each alternative. The presentation demonstrates application
development methods and explains how to go beyond the
wizards to create a production-ready application. This
presentation is intended as a follow up to the "Introduction
and New Features" presentation, but attendance at
that session is not required.
Be
Careful What You Wish For: Complex Data Types: The
data type concept is one of the least understood by information
technology practitioners. This is both a cause and a consequence
of the failure by SQL and its commercial dialects to implement
relational domains, which are nothing but data types of
arbitrary complexity. Consequently, blame is being misplaced
on the relational approach for the SQL products' lack
of support for so-called "complex" types, which
permits proponents of the object approach to claim with
impunity that object DBMSs are superior in this respect
to relational DBMSs.
In
this session we'll
-
Define the data type concept
-
Explain
the distinctions between
-
Clarify
what proper DBMS support of data types means
-
Assess
the relational, object and "universal" DBMS
approaches to type support
-
Derive practical conclusions and recommendations
Oracle9i Integrated Business Intelligence: If integration
is key, what does it unlock? Have you considered building
a business intelligence / data warehousing solution? Are
you experiencing integration pain from a so-called best-of-breed
solution -- how do I deal with this metadata mess, who's
got the latest data, what impact will this change have,
how can I turn my queries into reports, how do I take
advantage of the latest Oracle9i Database features? This
technical session examines the integration points between
the Oracle9i for Business Intelligence product components
(OWB, Discoverer, BI Beans, Database, Reports, and Portal).
It also explores issues related to ongoing maintenance
and improvements. The presentation concludes with a review
of the advantages of Oracle's approach, compared to conventional
and competing approaches.
Oracle
9iAS Overview: Oracle9i Application Server is the second
major product for Oracle's Server Technologies Division.
The application server is a platform that provides customers
middleware needs. Oracle9iAS supports J2EE, Web Services,
Integration, Portal, Business Intelligence, and Wireless
solution areas. This presentation will provide an overview
of Oracle9iAS, with some emphasis on the features and benefits
of the upcoming V2 release.
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Directions
to the Oracle Conference Center
Address:
350 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, California.
Phone: 650-633-8300 Fax: 650-633-8399
Southbound-
Take Highway 101 South (toward San Jose) to the
Ralston Ave./Marine World Parkway exit. Take Marine World
Parkway east which will loop you back over the freeway.
Make a left at the first light onto Oracle Parkway. 350
Oracle Parkway will be on the right.
Northbound-
Take Highway 101 North (toward San Francisco) to
the Ralston Ave./Marine World Parkway exit. Take the first
exit ramp onto Marine World Parkway. Make a left at the
first light onto Oracle Parkway. 350 Oracle Parkway will
be on the right.
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