NCOUG May Madness TechBlast Oracle Architecture Secrets May 11th, 2007 Location: Blueridge Conference room, Building 5 (Creekside), Cisco Systems, RTP, NC 27709 Sponsored by Evergreen Database Technologies, Inc. and Burleson Consulting Download "Scaling to Infinity" Our NCOUG May Madness TechBlast continues in our tradition of finding the very best Oracle experts to maximize your learning experience. Join us at Cisco on Friday May 11th for a one-of-a-kind Oracle TechBlast featuring two world famous Oracle experts, Tim Gorman and Steve Bobrowski.  Oracle guru Steve Bobrowski will also present a cutting-edge presentation on Oracle and "Software as a Service", and important new programming and architectural concept within Oracle. Gorman is the co-author of Essential Oracle8i Data Warehousing and Oracle8 Data Warehousing, and Bobrowski is the author of six Oracle Press books, including the new Oracle Press series of books "Hands-On Oracle Database 10g Express Edition".  Feel free to bring copies for their autographs. Don't miss this opportunity to learn new secrets in Oracle software as a service and Oracle scalability.  Oracle has the world's most scalable databases and world renowned expert Tim Gorman will explain "Scaling to Infinity", an indispensable presentation of how to leverage Oracle's divide-and-conquer approach for very large databases (VLDB).  Steve Bobrowski also covers Oracle's "Software as a Service", an important new concept in Oracle development.    - 12:30 - 1:00 PM - Free Pizza!    - 1:00 - 3:00 PM - Scaling to Infinity - Tim Gorman    - 3:15-4:15 PM - A Practical Demonstration of Software as a Service (SaaS) - Steve Bobrowski To reserve your spot, e-mail Harry Conway at the link below. ncoug@remote-dba.net Directions: * I-40 to the Davis Drive (Exit 280). * At the ramp signal, turn left (South) onto Davis Drive. * Proceed 3.5 miles on Davis Drive to Kit Creek Road intersection. * Turn right onto Kit Creek Road. You will see Cisco sign here. * Next take 2nd left and then another left to reach building 5 Sign up with the receptionist. * Conference room will be located on the 1st floor.   Agenda: 12:30 - 1:00 PM - Free Pizza   1:00 - 3:00 PM  - Scaling to Infinity - Tim Gorman   3:15-4:15 PM - A Practical Demonstration of Software as a Service (SaaS) - Steve Bobrowski Download "Scaling to Infinity" Scaling to Infinity Tim Gorman Partitioning is crucial to data warehouses, but how do you decide how to physically decide how to partition. How do you use the different types of partitioning to optimize both end-user performance through partition-pruning, as well optimizing extraction / transformation / loading (ETL)? - How is range partitioning best utilized? - Hash and list partitioning and sub-partitioning? - How are data warehouses indexed and how does one sort through the myriad choices of index partitioning? This presentation is the result of lots of practical experience in physical database design for data warehouses, driven by the combination of business requirements and systems requirements. It will provide straight answers and solid guidelines to best utilize this important feature to ensure decision-support success.   Speaker Biography: Tim Gorman has worked in IT with relational databases since 1984, as an Oracle application developer since 1990, and as an Oracle DBA since 1993. He is an independent contractor specializing in performance tuning, database administration (particularly availability), PL/SQL development, and data warehousing.   Tim has been an active member of the Rocky Mtn Oracle Users Group since 1992, has been a board member since 1995, has been past president, and is currently director of the annual "Training Days" conference.   Tim Gorman has co-authored three books, "Oracle8 Data Warehousing", "Essential Oracle8i Data Warehousing" (both from John Wiley & Sons) and "Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table" (from Apress), and he has presented at Oracle Open World, IOUG "Live", UKOUG, Miracle Database Forum and Master Classes, as well as local Oracle users groups in North America and the Caribbean.   A Practical Demonstration of SaaS Steve Bobrowski   This presentation explains the fundamental concepts, benefits, and implementation details of Software as a Service (SaaS) so that developers and consumers can better understand and take advantage of this emerging technology. The practical component of this session uses Oracle products, including Oracle Application Express and Oracle Database 10g, to reveal the unique challenges that SaaS application providers must overcome in order to be successful. Learn what all the SaaS rage is about from this unique hands-on perspective. Speaker biography:     Steve Bobrowski is a 20 year Oracle veteran, an ex-Oracle employee, and one of the most respected names in Oracle technology.  Founder of the Database Domain and a regular contributor to Oracle Magazine, Steve is the author of six Oracle Press books, including the new Oracle Press series of books "Hands-On Oracle Database 10g Express Edition".

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