Speaker: Rich Niemiec

TUSC - The Oracle Experts

Description

The first presentation focuses on some of the traits that can help elevate you to the next level.

The second presentation looks at the future architecture of Oracle Database 10g as it relates to the future of the Oracle Database.

Bio

Rich Niemiec is the chief executive officer. He previously served as president of the International Oracle Users Group and currently holds that responsibility for the Midwest Oracle Users Group. He's respected around the world as a master in database administration and often consults with members of the media on technological trends and the impact they'll have on the industry at large. In fact, he was named by Oracle Corp. as an Oracle Certified Master -- one of only a handful so recognized around the world -- in 2001. Rich Niemiec instills the "Traits of the TUSC Leader" -- enthusiasm, initiative, integrity, knowledge, loyalty, moral and physical courage, respect, self-control, tact and unselfishness. His experience in data processing ranges from teaching to consulting, with emphasis in database administration, performance tuning, project management and technical education.

February 2004 Presentations

Topic: Automatic Storage Management (ASM) in 10g.

Speaker: Kurt Vogel

Oracle Corporation

Description

This presentation covers Automatic Storage Management for Oracle 10g.  The Presentation Covers a variety of topics associated with ASM.

Bio

Kurt Vogel has been in the IT industry for the past 22 years. Starting in application development, Database Management and now Sales Consulting at Oracle Corporation. As a Sales Consult at Oracle, Kurt has been working with Oracle Enterprise Manager since it's first release 7 years ago.

December 2003 Presentations

Topic: FAQs: A Smörgasbord of Common Questions and Problems Received by World Wide Support-And How to Resolve Them

Speaker: David Austin

Oracle Corporation

Description

The presentation covers a variety of topics that, based on statistics compiled by World Wide Support, cause problems for many database administrators. A best practice or working solution is provided for each problem, in some cases, some of which may be release dependent. The topics are not offered in any particular order and the audience is encouraged to select from available topics and to add their own contributions to the discussion of the problems and possible solutions.

Bio

David Austin has been involved with Oracle databases since release 4. He worked as a DBA with releases 4, 5, and 6. David joined Oracle Corporation eleven years ago where he has been involved in database training for releases 6 through 10. He has delivered training sessions at IOUG, EOUG, Oracle World, and is a popular and frequent speaker at the Los Angeles OUG. David is the author or co-author of four books on Oracle (all out of print, so he will not be trying to sell them to you).

June 2003 Presentations

Topic: Web Services in Oracle9i

Speakers: Stuart A. Winslow

CIBER, Inc.

Description

Web services using XML standards is a new paradigm in the way integration collaborations are modeled. XML web services provide a standardized way to transfer data between business partners and business systems. This presentation introduces the concepts related to web services including SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, and ebXML and then delves into some practical applications of web services.

Bio

Stuart is a consultant working CIBER on various software development projects. He has recently been working with Monsanto using XML and Web Services to integrate systems with an Oracle Database.

 Topic: RAC and TAF

Speaker: Ron Yount

Enterprise Rent-a-car

Description

A considerable amount of information as well as demonstrations of RAC databases functionality is readily available today. While this is good information for any DBA considering High Availability solutions, a key component; TAF is often not covered with any level of detail. This presentation will focus on the impact, configuration options and timing involved in switching your user connections from a failed instance to a surviving one. While the DBA is commonly concerned about keeping the database up and available, the user (application) measures success by sustaining an active connection. This is where TAF comes into play. An understanding of TAF options can help you to understand how to meet the business and application requirements in a HA architecture.

Bio

Ron has been working as the Lead DBA at Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St. Louis for the past 3 and a half years. One of the primary projects he has worked on during that time involves OPS/RAC and High Availability for a 24x7 application. Prior to that, Ron had about 12 years of IT experience ranging from Oracle consulting to IT management and IT training at Community Colleges.

February 2003 Presentations

Topic: Oracle RDBMS on Linux

Speakers: Jim Hawkins and Tom Boden

Database Administrators

Pharmacia Corporation

Description

Jim Hawkins and Tom Boden, Database Administrators with Pharmacia Corporation in St. Louis, have been testing the viability of the Oracle RDBMS on Linux over the past several months. The goal is to determine whether or not Linux should be added as a strategic platform to the current list of platforms supported by their organization. Performance, supportability, cost, reliability, and overall experience were all considered. Jim and Tom will discuss their findings and recommendations.

Topic: Oracle's Enterprise Manager

Speaker: Kurt Vogel

Oracle Corporation

Description

Oracle's Enterprise Manager - OEM is an intuitive graphical interface, providing a central framework for managing all aspects of the Oracle environment, from schema and storage attributes, to users, instances, replication and more. We will review the OEM architecture along with demonstrations of the base features plus Oracles Tuning Pack, Diagnostics Pack and Change Management Pack.

Bio

Kurt Vogel has been in the IT industry for the past 22 years. Starting in application development, Database Management and now Sales Consulting at Oracle Corporation. As a Sales Consult at Oracle, Kurt has been working with Oracle Enterprise Manager since it's first release 7 years ago.

December 2002 Presentations

Topic: RMAN: Your New Best Friend for Backup and Recovery

Speaker: Ruth Gramolini

Oracle DBA

Vermont Department of Taxes

Bio

Ruth has been an Oracle DBA for 4.5 years with the State of Vermont Department of Taxes. She had been system manger and DBA for an HP3000 system running the proprietary Image Database for 14+ years before that.

Topics of Discussion

Top 10 reasons to love RMAN.

·         The golden rule of backup and recovery

·         Is it worth learning RMAN?

·         Is the learning curve too steep?

·         Should I use a recovery catalog?

·         Why I use RMAN?

Topic: Managing Large Numbers of Databases

Speaker: Matthew Adams

General Electric

Bio

Matthew Adams has been working with Oracle since the late ‘80s, when he started as a Form 2.3 and Pro*C developer using Oracle 6.0. He has been working as a DBA for the past 10 years and has spent time as a consultant or employee at a wide variety of companies.

He was the DBA Track Manager for the Oracle OpenWorld 2000 conference and is one of the two Focus Area Managers for Database Administration for the IOUG-A Live 2003 conference.

He currently works as a DBA for General Electric in the Consumer Products division, where he and the rest of the team manage roughly 330 instances of Oracle.

Description

Over the years, entire volumes have been written on how to deal with very large databases. Relatively little has been written on how to deal with an environment with tens or hundreds of databases.

The purpose of this presentation is to describe how the author approached dealing with such an environment, in the hope that the reader will find some useful information in dealing with their own such environment.

Note that this presentation will concentrate on databases set up in a Unix environment.

Topic: Oracle 9i RAC

Speaker: Todd Blatti

Oracle

Bio

Todd Blatti has seventeen years of I/T industry experience including the last nine at Oracle Corporation. His prior experience includes various

Database Specialist positions for IBM and other Fortune 500 companies. Todd is currently an Oracle Principal Sales Consultant with expertise in the

deployment of Oracle9i-based applications, including High Availability, Portal, and Business Intelligence systems.

October 2002 Presentations

Topic: Log Miner and Data Guard

Speaker: Joseph S. Testa

Technology Manager / Consultant

DMC - Data Management Consulting, LLC

 Bio

Joe is an Oracle Certified Professional [Oracle 9i, 8i, and 8 DBA] that is recognized and internationally sought as an expert and presenter on topics and issues related to the use of Oracle products. He has presented at the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG-A) conference every year since 1999. In addition, Joe recently performed a technical edit and review for an Oracle 9i DBA 101 book by Oracle Press that will be released in fall 2002. Also, Joe served as President to the Ohio Oracle Users Group in 2000 and Vice-President in 1999.

Topic: "Your Roadmap to Successful Oracle Implementation"

Speaker: Mary Ellen Smith

Account Manager

International Oracle User Group - Americas

Bio

Mary Ellen Smith has been the Account Manager for the International Oracle Users Group for the past two years, managing the day to day activities of the organization. Prior to coming to the IOUG, Mary Ellen spent five years with the Tax Technology Group of Price Waterhouse LLP, and four years as a financial consultant with Financial Trading Advisors Corporation.

Topic: User Group Membership

Speaker: Mike Schmidt

Tyco Healthcare

August 2002 Presentations

Topic: Oracle Recovery Case Study

Speaker: Jim Hawkins

DATA SERVICES CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATION

Pharmacia

Description

Jim discussed the details involving a lengthy outage of a very large, extremely transactional SAP R/3 system (4.0B) running on EMC Symmetrix and AIX 4.3. This Oracle 8.0.4.3 database processed close to 220,000 transactions per day, was used globally around the clock, and approached 350GB in size. Topics ranged from general lessons learned to "fuzzy SCN's" to disaster recovery planning.

Topic: Oracle 9i Application Server and Java J2EE

Speaker: Stuart A. Winslow

Ciber

Description

Stuart discussed the Oracle 9i Application Server and Java J2EE architecture.

June 2002 Presentation

Topic: Working with Oracle Support

Speaker: Chris Craft

Oracle Corporation

Topic: Accelerating Database and Data Warehouse Performance

Speaker:     David Friedland

CoSORT/IRI

April 2002 Presentation

Topic: The Ideal Database Environment

Speaker: David Harrier

Pharmacia

Description

David facilitated a discussion on creating an ideal database environment including tools and best practices. 

February 2002 Presentation

Topic: Oracle 9i and Oracle 9iAS

Speaker: Vytas Suopys

Oracle Corporation

December 2001 Presentation

Topic: Monitoring Your Database in a Wireless World

Speaker: Derek Ferguson

Expand Beyond, formerly PocketDBA

October 2001 Presentations

Topic: Oracle’s Large Objects

Speaker: Lisa Renheimer

Topic: Oracle's Large Objects

Speaker: James Stange

Topic: Experience With V$SQLAREA

Speaker: Bill Hoehne

Topic: SQL - Under the Covers

Speaker: Larry Emke 

Topic: Oracle 9i DB Update

Speaker: Tara Wallace

August 2001 Presentation

Topic: Oracle Performance Management - A Radical Approach

Speaker: Gaja Krishna

Bio

Vaidyanatha. Gaja is the author of the book "Oracle Performance Tuning 101".  Gaja is also one of the premier Oracle speakers and is consistently a top draw at OpenWorld and IOUG-A Live!

June 2001 Presentation

Topic: Oracle Standard Infrastructure, Continuing the War on Complexity

Speaker: Jack Wheeler

Sr. Area Director Oracle Appliance Division

Topic: Oracle Database Security

Speaker: Internet Security Systems

April 2001 Presentation

Topic: Oracle Disaster Recovery Procedures

Speaker: Rama Velpuri

Bio

Rama is the author of the "Oracle Backup and Recovery Handbooks" from Oracle Press.

Topic: Supporting Developers in an Oracle Environment

Speaker: Stuart A. Winslow

February 2001 Presentation

Topic: Share Your Experience

Speakers: Group Members

John Young - Session Waits

Mike Schmidt - Monitoring TEMP space with Perl

Rich Gritton - Locally Managed Tablespaces

Matt Heimrich - Oracle 7.3.4 Migration/Upgrade to Oracle 8i on NT

December 2000 Presentation

Topic: Implementing RAID on Oracle Systems

Speaker: Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha,

Director, Storage Management Products

Quest Software Inc.

Bio

Author - Oracle Tuning 101 by Osborne McGraw-Hill

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October 2000 Presentation

Topic: What do you mean I'm the DBA?

Speaker: Bill Burke

Director User Group Relations

International Oracle Users Group – Americas

August 2000 Presentation

Topic: High Availability and Database Replication

Speaker: Zulfikar Jeevanjee

Senior Oracle DBA

ITSC

Topic: A PL/SQL Developers Guide to Oracle 8i

Speaker: Mark Koors

Oracle DBA

Monsanto

June 2000 Presentation

Topic: Database Vulnerabilities and How to Fix Them

Speaker: Patrick Wheeler

Product Manager

Internet Security Systems

www.iss.net

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