8:30 - 9:00

Registration and Networking

9:00 – 9:30

Welcoming Remarks – Monica Penshorn (TCOUG VP)

TCOUG Board Elections – Dawn Rust (TCOUG President)

• Vice President
• Special Projects Director
• Webmaster
• Treasurer

Word from Host – Host Representative (General Mills)

Word from Sponsor – Sponsor Representative (TUSC)

“IT Optimization” - Laura Sprowls , TUSC

This presentation will address IT Optimization and how it effects your organization. How can you provide real data that is relevant to business needs? Technologies like Oracle RAC, Grid computing, Linux all will play into your future. Rapid application development is also a key to your future success. Gartner Inc.'s list of top 10 resolutions for CIOs in 2005 includes at number six, "Get hands-on experience on new key technologies. " This presentation will talk about tools such as JDeveloper and HTML DB which bring rapid application development to a whole new level.

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:45

“Internal and External Application Integration - Oracle Fusion Web Services” - Laura Sprowls, TUSC

Having ventured down the path of a full bore implementation of internal and external application integration in what I perceived as the most efficient and cost effective manner, you'll get the benefit of my hindsight introspections today. Specifically, I implemented a light weight Service Oriented Architecture (i.e. Web Services) wherever it made sense. This presentation will discuss the good, bad and ugly about this approach that was taken. Knowing what I know today, I would in fact take this approach again. In fact, I highly recommend my self-named light-weight SOA.

11:45 – 12:45

Lunch

12:45 – 1:45

“11G RAC” – Brock Frank, Team U.S. Consulting

1) New features of 11g focusing on RAC and Extended RAC clusters. This will be mostly around ASM and CRS.

2) RAC Best Practices and most supportable infrastructures. This will focus on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) with ASM or NFS. I will also include some slides from Oracle's Customer Wiki showing the different OS's and how that has changed from 9i until now.

1:45 – 2:00

Break

2:00 – 3:00

“Wait-Time Based Oracle Performance Management” – Janis Griffin, Confio Software (zip)

There are many ways to use Oracle wait events for performance tuning of an Oracle database, but often there is confusion on exactly what the data means. The issue typically centers around the fact the wait event data is analyzed at the wrong level or the collected wait event data is not detailed enough. This presentation will focus on these problems and review several real-life case studies of using wait event data coupled with Wait-Time based performance analysis to solve the most difficult performance related issues.

3:00 – 3:15

Break

“ Hack Your Database Before the Hackers Do ” – Sentrigo

Many Thanks to Jerry Wolfe and General Mills for hosting the meeting. Special thanks also to the folks at TUSC (premier sponsor), Sentrigo (general sponsor), and Confio (general sponsor).