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Our
May 15, 2003 meeting was held at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale.
Some of the presentations from the meeting are available
for download.
Conference
Description
The
Spring Conference had parallel sessions on
database administration, application development, and one
track with a mix of different topics. The conference agenda
is as follows:
| 08:00 - |
- Registration opens. Continental
Breakfast. |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
- General Session. |
| 09:30 - 09:45 |
- Break |
| 09:45
- 10:45 |
- Parallel Session #1:
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| 10:45 - 11:30 |
- Break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
- Parallel Session #2:
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| 12:30 - 01:30 |
- Lunch |
| 01:30 - 01:55 |
- Roundtable Discussions |
| 02:00 - 03:00 |
- Parallel Session #3:
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| 03:00 - 03:30 |
- Afternoon Break
and Raffle |
| 03:30 - 04:30 |
- Parallel Session
#4:
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| 04:45 - ... |
- NoCOUG Networking
and Happy Hour at Faz Restaurant and Bar,
1108 N. Mathilda Avenue in Sunnyvale |
If you have suggestions for future
conferences or would like to offer feedback on previous
conferences, then please send us an email.
"Implementing
Oracle9i Data Guard for Higher Availability" This
presentation provides an overview of Oracle9i Data Guard
technology. The session offers an introduction to the basic
concepts and architectures of Data Guard. It discusses the
following implementation steps: planning for high availability,
creating the standby database environment, setting up the
log transport services, managing the log apply services,
and administrating the Data Guard environment by using Oracle9i
Data Guard Manager and command-line interface. This session
covers new features in Oracle9i Data Guard Release 1 and
2. This session also compares Data Guard technology with
other disaster recovery methods.
"Oracle Enterprise
Manager (EM V4)" Enterprise Manager (EM) is Oracle's
single, integrated solution for administering and monitoring
applications and systems that are based on the Oracle technology
stack. EM V4 is the latest generation of the Enterprise
Manager that includes significant enhancements in the areas
of
holistic system monitoring, centralized application server
management, web application performance management, extensive
host monitoring, and
enterprise configuration management.
"Implications
of Setting Oracle9i's Statistics Collection Level" Statistical
analysis is at the root of all performance efforts. Oracle
has introduced a new method of turning on statistical collection
and expanded our ability to look deeper into areas not available
before. This presentation will take a look at the implications
of setting up this new method of statistical collection
and its' impact on the system.
"How to Figure
Out What's Wrong" Thomas Kyte frequently gets asked
"My program is slow, what parameter do I need to set
to make it go faster". Many people are in search of
the fast=true init.ora parameter -- there is no such parameter.
This presentation will describe how the author sets about
diagnosing application performance related issues, the tools
used and the techniques you should employ during development
to avoid having to triage your system after the fact.
"National Language
Support" Of all the dba joints in all the corporate
world, she walked into mine. Christine said little. "Brian,
the Kanji data are missing". I knew I was in trouble.
Up to that point, no one had mentioned the minor detail
that there
was multi-byte Japanese Kanji in this innocent looking single-byte
database. The 'expert' DBAs at corporate analyzed the situation
in the predictable way. "Brian, a single-byte database
can't support multi-byte Kanji". And that was that.
I was stuck, in the middle of nowhere, between Christine's
need for her Kanji, and the experts' declaration that the
Kanji had never existed. This left only one small detail.
How to get the Kanji back?
"Eliminating Performance
Bottlenecks in J2EE Applications" Our surveys have shown
that over 75% of J2EE applications face performance problems.
With today's complex multi-tier systems and integration
projects, finding these performance bottlenecks can be like
finding a needle in a haystack. Customers need a systematic
approach to identifying, isolating and resolving performance
bottlenecks prior to going live. This presentation will
address methodology and technology available today to solve
performance problems for multi-tier systems in a deployment
or production setting.
"Managing
What Matters Most - A Holistic Approach To Monitoring Oracle
Applications" Problem isolation and resolution
are hard enough in the simplistic client / server environments.
We need to take a "holistic" approach to managing
the Oracle applications infrastructure by bringing in event,
performance, and availability data from clients, networks,
web servers, middles tiers, and databases and anything else
that can be considered part of the infrastructure and present
it a clear, concise fashion so that critical business applications
based on Oracle, remain up and responsive.
"Managing OLAP
Catalog Metadata in Oracle9i R2 Database" The OLAP option
of the Oracle9i Release 2 Database uses metadata in the
database's OLAP catalog to describe multi-dimensional models
and mappings to data sources. This presentation discusses
the OLAP option's multi-dimensional data model, data sources
(relational and multi-dimensional data types), run-time
uses of the OLAP catalog (e.g., the OLAP API and administrative
processes), the OLAP Catalog API and BI Beans applications
that can be used to manage the OLAP Catalog metadata.
"Materialized
Views" This entry level presentation on Materialized
Views (Oracle8i version), will cover what materialized views
are, how they created and used, and what set-up steps must
be performed so they can be used effectively. In addition,
to relevant examples, some of the "behind-the-curtain" mechanics
relating to materialized views will also be covered.
"Moving to LDAP:
A Step-by-Step Setup of Directory Naming Using OID" Oracle
Internet Directory (OID) provides a new mechanism of resolving
net service names by storing database-connecting information
in a LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Server.
LDAP-based name resolution is considered an industrial standard
as compare to the more proprietary Oracle Names Server.
The OID also replaces the need for storing connecting information
on each individual client machine. This presentation discusses
the required steps to install, configure, and setup an Oracle
Internet Directory Server for name resolution. It offers
an introduction to the basic concepts of OID and Oracle
Net. It shows how to use Oracle Directory Manager, Net Assistant,
and "oidctl" utilities to configure ldap.ora, names.ora,
and sqlnet.ora.
"Archieving Your
Project's ROI": Managing the Human Aspects of Project
Implementation" Organizations today face even more challenges
than before, particularly how to obtain collaboration, how
to achieve ROI and how to get projects implemented faster
with full take-up of what the project delivers. This session
provides the latest figures on project 'wastage', based
on current research into Fortune 500 companies. Analysis
of the data indicates the root causes of implementation
problems, backed up by case studies of how the symptoms
of these causes played out in several organizations. A solution
is outlined which addresses these causes though implementing
projects as value delivery systems.
Directions
to Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale
Address:
Building 157 is located at the intersection of
Third Avenue and J Street in Sunnyvale.
From
Highway 101: Go on Highway 101 toward Highway 237.
Go east on 237 and exit at Mathilda Avenue. Travel north
on Mathilda and turn left onto Third Avenue. Take Third
Avenue to J Street. Building 157 is on the left, and the
parking lot is on the right.
From
Highway 880: Go on Highway 880 toward Highway 237.
Go west on 237 and exit at Mathilda Avenue. Travel north
on Mathilda and turn left onto Third Avenue. Take Third
Avenue to J Street. Building 157 is on the left, and the
parking lot is on the right
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