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Piedmont Triad Oracle Users Group

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Month: April, 2008

04/30/2008 Meeting

30 April, 2008 (23:12) | Meetings | By: Stewart

Unifi, Inc.
7201 W Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410

This meeting has been pushed back to avoid conflicts with Collaborate 08

3:00 – 3:15 Meet & Greet
3:15 – 3:30 Script / Tip / Whitepaper swap (Everyone)
3:30 – 4:15 Replacing JInitiator with Sun JRE in 11i (Mike Brown)
4:15 – 5:00 60 Oracle Security Tips in  60  45 Minutes (Stewart McGlaughlin)

I’d like to also discuss appointing PTOUG Officers - to help with future meetings.

Sponsor: TEK Systems – http://www.teksystems.com

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NCOUG Spring TechBlast 2008 (05/02/2008)

22 April, 2008 (14:26) | Announcements | By: Stewart

Location: Blueridge Conference room, Building 5 (Creekside), Cisco Systems, RTP, NC 27709

Sponsored by Texas Memory Systems and Burleson Consulting

Our NCOUG Spring TechBlast continues in our tradition of finding the very best Oracle experts to maximize your learning experience. Join us at Cisco on Friday May 2nd for our spring Oracle TechBlast. 

Don Burleson will present his top-rated talk on Oracle 11g SQL Tuning Secrets.
 
Texas Memory Systems – Presentation on RAM SAN Solid State Disks (SSD) and Oracle

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to “tune in” to the new secrets in Oracle software and explore SSD as a storage option.

12:30 – 1:00 PM – Networking
1:00 – 2:00 PM -  11g SQL Tuning Secrets – Don Burleson

This presentation examines real-world techniques for improving the speed of SQL queries with a focus on the new Oracle11g SQL tuning features. The topics will include the new SQL workload replay, fully automatic SQL tuning, the “result cache” hint, new Oracle parameters that affect SQL performance, and changes to the new Oracle11g CBO costing approach.

2:15 – 4:30 PM – Understanding the Storage Impact on Oracle – Should you look at Solid State Disks? – Jamon Bowen (Texas Memory Systems)  
 
To reserve your spot, e-mail Harry Conway at: 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.
* Take the 2nd left, the building is Creekside (building number 5).
* Sign in with the receptionist.

Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2008

16 April, 2008 (09:43) | Critical Patch Updates | By: Stewart

The Critical Patch Update Advisory is available at any of the following locations:

Oracle Technology Network: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm

Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products: http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/support/security_index.jsp

The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are:
* July 15, 2008
* October 14, 2008
* January 13, 2009
* April 14, 2009