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!