Oracle Presenters - BI/DW Product Managers

If you are interested in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, then be sure to catch these presentations. These Oracle Product Managers will also be available to talk one-on-one in the Oracle Campground in the Exhibit Hall (check the Oracle Campground schedule).

Hermann Baer, Oracle Corporation
Hermann Baer heads product management for Oracle Data Warehousing's core functionality. Hermann has presented numerous technical sessions at Oracle OpenWorld and other conferences. He has worked with Oracle Database since Version 5 and joined Oracle in 1992.

His two presentations are:

• Best Practices for Deploying a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11
• Things You Always Wanted to Know - Get the Best Out of Oracle Partitioning

Jean-Pierre Dijcks, Oracle Corporation

Jean-Pierre Dijcks manages the product management team for Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle's data integration, data quality, and metadata management tool. After earning a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Jean-Pierre joined Oracle Netherlands as a data warehouse consultant working on data warehouse implementations throughout Europe. In late 2000, he moved to Oracle product development as a product manager for Oracle Warehouse Builder. Building on his field experience Jean-Pierre is a key contributer within Oracle's data warehouse development group.

His two presentations are:

• Unleash the HP Oracle Database Machine for your Data Warehouse
• Creating High Performance ELT with Oracle Warehouse Builder

Kevin Closson, Oracle Corporation

Kevin is a performance architect in Oracle Corporation's Server Technology Group working on the Oracle Exadata Storage Server. His nineteen-year career has included engineering, competitive benchmarking support, and application development on Oracle SMP and clustered platforms. His work prior to Oracle at HP/PolyServe, Veritas, IBM/Sequent, Altos was focused on scalability and availability of the Oracle server. His Oracle port-level work at Sequent led to his US patents in SMP/NUMA locking and database caching methods. Kevin speaks frequently at Oracle conferences and is a member of the OakTable Network. Kevin was an Oracle ACE prior to joining Oracle Corp. In addition to book collaborations, his written works have appeared in Oracle Magazine, Oracle Internals Magazine, IBM Redbooks and SELECT.

Kevin maintains an interesting blog at kevinclosson.wordpress.com

Presentation:

• Oracle Exadata Storage Server. Introducing Extreme Performance for Data Warehousing.

Experience the Oak Table

What is the Oak Table? The Oak Table is a band of some of the finest minds in the Oracle world primarily focused on Oracle performance, improved administration, and having a great time. The book titled "Oracle Insights (Tales of the Oak Table)" is a must read and their website has lots of useful information: http://www.oaktable.net/.

RMOUG is fortunate to have several Oak Table members speaking at our conference again this year. Please join our local Oak Table members Daniel Fink, Tim Gorman, and Stephan Haisley in welcoming Kevin Closson, Carol Dacko, Thomas Kyte, Cary Millsap, Karen Morton, Jeff Needham, Mogens Nørgaard, Tanel Põder, Robyn Sands, Joze Senegacnik, Riyaj Shamsudeen, Gaja Vaidyanatha, Jeremiah Wilton, Graham Wood to RMOUG 2009.

Each year the Oak Table challenges RMOUG attendees to "Ask the Oak Table" -- find an Oracle-related question that their collective minds cannot answer. Try your luck and learn something in bargain!

University Session: Maximum Availability Architecture 101

Maximum Availability Architecture 101
Stephan Haisley, Oracle Corporation
Database Administration
Room 103/105

Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is Oracle Corporation’s HA best practices blueprint based on Oracle high availability technologies such as Real Application Cluster, ASM, Data Guard, Exadata, Flashback technologies, etc. The goal of MAA is to design the best high availability architecture with the greatest return on investment and quality of service
Downtime is something every mission critical business wants to avoid or minimize, whether it is due to planned or unplanned outages. Oracle offers a number of features and proven operational and configuration practices to minimize downtime.

This session aims to demystify the HA features offered by Oracle and outline a clear set of best practices to avoid and minimize downtime for all outages. I will provide real world examples of how MAA best practices have prevented prolonged downtime when faulty HBAs corrupted the primary database, how a leading telecom reduced downtime exposure from two hours to its minutes for outages resulting in site failover, and how legal and insurance firms reduced downtime to minutes using Data Guard switchover for upgrades and major system changes. I will also describe how to configure for zero downtime for most unplanned and some planned outages.

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University Session: Advanced RMAN Backup and Recovery

Advanced RMAN Backup and Recovery
Robert Freeman, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Database Administration
Room 102

So, you have RMAN up and running. You are backing up your database, and you are pretty sure you know how to recover it. Maybe. Beyond that, what else exists out in the RMAN world that can help you? In this presentation Robert Freeman, author of Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup and Recovery will touch on a number of advanced RMAN topics. Topics include point-in-time recoveries, performance tuning, and database duplication. Several new Oracle Database 11g features will also be highlighted. Come join us for this exciting exploration of advanced RMAN backup and recovery topics.

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Training Day University Sessions - on Tuesday

Come a day early to receive in depth training on specific topics at Training Days 2009 University Sessions. These are four-hour sessions offered on Tuesday, February 10 from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The fee is $125.00 and if you are registered for the conference you will receive a 10% discount. PDF Document

• The RMOUG University Sessions include:
  Hands-On Oracle Application Express—From Zero to 60 in a Day!
  Bradley Brown, TUSC—A Rolta Company
  Application Development Details
  PLEASE NOTE: This is a hands-on session. You'll need to bring your own laptop that has a wireless card that can connect to Brad's network.
  
• Advanced RMAN Backup and Recovery
  Robert Freeman, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  Database Administration Details
  
• Maximum Availability Architecture 101
  Stephan Haisley, Oracle Corporation
  Database Administration Details
  Room 103/105
  
• Oracle SQL Developer: Hands-On Experience
  Sue Harper and Kris Rice, Oracle Corporation
  Application Development Details
  Room 108/110/112
  PLEASE NOTE: This is a hands on session. Users are required to bring their own laptops with a database 9.2.01 or above installed. XE database is fine too. This can be downloaded and installed from OTN. We will not do database setup on the day.
  
• Understanding Explain Plans
  Dan Hotka, Training Specialist
  Application Development Details
  Room 107/109
  
• A Guide to Fusion Web Development with JDeveloper 11g
  Peter Koletezke and Duncan Mills, Quovera and Oracle Corporation
  Application Development Details
  Room 111/113
  
• Quality "Shmality"-Why You Need Data Quality and How to Conduct a Data Quality Program
  William Wimsatt, Wells Landers Group
  Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing Details
  Room 104/106
  PLEASE NOTE: This is a hands-on session. Users are required to bring their own laptops. We will be sending an email to participants with directions for loading the required software prior to the session.

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