Database

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Database Special Interest Group
September 14, 2003
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Welcome

• Michael Brown, Chairman
• Contact Information
• mbrown_at_glenraven.com
• [phone]
• To Contact the entire board
• oaugdbsigboard_at_yahoogroups.com
• Please Sign In

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Agenda

• Business Meeting
• 3 speakers

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Amendment to the Bylaws

• Election of Officers and appointment of the
  Board Paraphrased Version
• 3 Officers and 6-9 Board Members
• Officers are elected at the fall meeting for
  2 years
• Officers then appoint board members
• Chairman is elected in even numbered years
• Vice-Chairman and Secretary in odd years
• Past Chairman is automatically on board
• Officers must ensure at least 6 other board
  members

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Elections

• Election of Vice-Chairman and Secretary
• Neil Jensen chaired a nominations committee for
  the Board
• Nominees
• Vice-Chairman Mark Farnham
• Secretary Lynda Rode
• Floor is now open for Additional Nominations

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Mailing List

• One of the new benefits offered by the OAUG for
  SIG and GEO groups
• Attachments are automatically stripped
• Must be a member to send to the list
• Our old contact list (oaugdbsig_at_yahoogroups) is
  defunct.

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Mailing List

• Sign Up
• Go to the SIG website http//dbsig.oaug.org
• Select Join from the top menu
• (Alternative) e-mail to
• dbsig-subscribe-requests_at_aqslists.com

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Sessions of Interest

• Todays Lunch
• 1130-200 under the Sails
• SIG Meetings
• Upgrade (1-2 this room)
• Sysadmin (2-3 this room)
• ODTUG (12-4 Room 14B)

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Sessions of Interest

• Panels (All are in Room 4)
• Applications Database Performance, Tues 1045
• 11i Cloning, Tues 145
• 11i Upgrade, Wed 1015
• Training Sessions
• Technical Foundation-AOL, Room 7 Mon 930
• Customizing Workflows, Room 9, Tues 145
• Query Tuning Tips Used by the Experts, Room 7,
  Wed 900
• Various Sessions in from Solutions Beacon 11i
  Training, Room 11 Mon and Tues

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Sessions of Interest

• Papers
• Recipe for Automated and Instant 11i Clones, Room
  10,Mon 930
• Forecasting Oracle System Performance Using
  Simulation, Room 10, Mon 315
• Care and Feeding of 11i, Room 6D, Tues 300
• Apps DBA - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks, Room
  10, Wed 1145
• These are just a sample, others?

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New Business From the Floor
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Next Meetings

• March 7
• 2004 Hotsos Symposium
• Dallas
• September 12
• OAUG Fall Conference
• Orlando

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The Good Stuff

• Lessons Learned Red Hat and our EBSO 11i
  Reimplementation
• Don Brewer, Red Hat, Director of DBA Services
• Frank Myers, Red Hat, Global Manager of IT and
  Web Services

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The Good Stuff

• Performance Testing the Oracle Applications
• Michael Cartonis, Mercury Interactive, Senior
  Product Manager, Load Testing

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The Good Stuff

• Space and Object Management in Oracle
• Amit Ganesh, Oracle, Director, Data, Space and
  Transaction Processing, Data Storage Technology