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Twin Cities Oracle User Group Spring Meeting Agenda
Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Lifetouch

11000 Viking Drive

Eden Prairie, MN 55344

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AGENDA

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8:30 – 9:00

Registration and Networking

9:00 – 9:15

Welcoming Remarks

9:15 – 10:15

“11g New Features” – Todd Blatti,  Oracle

Released in the Fall 2007, 11g continues Oracle's database development goals of ease of management and high quality of service.  In addition, 11g has new features that greatly reduce the risk of introducing new changes to your production systems.  This presentation will overview the key new 11g features including Active Data Guard, Total Recall, Advanced Compression, and Real Application Testing.

BIO

Todd Blatti has twenty-plus years of I/T industry experience including the last fourteen at Oracle Corporation. Todd is currently an Oracle Principal Grid Sales Consultant with particularly expertise in Real Application Clusters, Data Guard, and Enterprise Manager Grid Control. His prior experience includes various Database Specialist and DBA positions for IBM and other Fortune 500 companies

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30– 11:30

“Oracle Virtualization Positioning and Directions (RAC, Oracle VM, and "Grid 2.0")” – Todd Blatti, Oracle

We will discuss several of the emerging virtualization technologies from both Oracle and third parties and how these technologies best support Oracle database deployments.  The presentation will also cover the directions for Oracle grid technology

11:30 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 – 1:30

User Productivity Kit (UPK)– Nancy Manderfeld, Oracle

 Oracle's solution that helps organizations quickly create critical documentation, training and support materials needed to drive project team and user productivity throughout the software lifecycle.

1:30 – 1:45

 

Break

1:45 – 2:45

“RMAN 11g New Features” – Matthew Hart

 Most DBA's utilize RMAN and a few of the advanced backup and recovery features available in Oracle9i and 10g. Let's dive into some of the latest backup/recovery improvements in Oracle Database 11g. You may be surprised how many of them will help you-- without lifting a finger.

BIO

Matthew Hart is the co-author of three books for Oracle Press, “Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery,” “Oracle 10g High Availability with RAC, Flashback, and DataGuard,” and the forthcoming "Oracle Database 10g Backup and Recovery." He has worked with high availability technologies in Oracle since version 7.3, and has worked with RMAN since it's inception. Mr. Hart currently works and lives in Kansas City.

2:45 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 3:30

“Service Oriented Architecture High Level Overview” – John Ford, Midwave

 John will provide a high level overview of SOA and an introduction to the new SOA SIG.

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Many thanks to the presenters for graciously giving their time and the kindness of Susan White and LifeTouch.

 

The Twin Cities Oracle Users Group is an organization dedicated to sharing Oracle expertise and experiences. Quarterly meetings are held at locations around the Twin Cities.  We welcome your comments inquiries.  Please feel free to contact any of our Board members, or write:

Twin Cities Oracle Users Group
P.O. Box 36
Spring Valley, WI 54767-0036

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