The Delaware Valley Oracle Users Group Inc. Agenda

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The agenda is still being developed, but this is how it looks so far.  We have added links to more descriptive abstracts to help you pick out the presentation you want to attend.  Just click on the topic to jump to the abstract.

Time Room Topic Speaker(s)
9:00 Renaissance Presentation of New Board - Outlook to the future Matt Reagan, Centocor, Inc.
10:00 to close   Vendor Floor Quest Software, Brio, StorNet Inc.
9:30 Renaissance Tips and Techniques for Optimizing Database and Application Performance over WANS David Alpern, Smith Kline Beecham
10:45 Renaissance Advantages of Network Attached Storage in an Oracle Environment Tom Yarmass, Network Appliance
12:00 East Ballroom Lunch (preorder with this form)  
1:00 Renaissance WebDB from a User's Perspective Kevin Loney, Kevin Loney Consulting L.L.C.
2:15 Renaissance TBA Pete Silva
3:30 Renaissance Ask Oracle/DBA Expert Panel Moderator:  Matt Reagan, Centocor, Inc.
4:00 Renaissance Door prizes  

Abstracts

These abstracts detail the presentations that are scheduled above.  Click on the time and you will jump to that time in the schedule.

Presentation of New Board - Outlook to the future, Matthew Reagan, Centocor, Inc., 9:00 AM
Building a database-driven information portal, dynamic content application and .com architecture, using Oracle8i, Designer and Vignette Storyserver.
 
Tips and Techniques for Optimizing Database and Application Performance over WANs, David Alpern, SmithKline Beecham, 9:30 AM
Achieving acceptable database application performance over wide area networks can be challenging. Inherent network latency, coupled with SQL*Net/Net80 network packet chatter, often result in poor performance over WANs. This presentation describes system and coding methods best avoided and explores a variety of techniques to overcome and workaround network bottlenecks. SQL*Net low level configuration is considered first. Several performance enhancing techniques using PL/SQL are be discussed in detail. References to relevant Oracle support documentation as well as sample PL/SQL code illustrating the techniques are provided.
 
Advantages of Network Attached Storage in an Oracle Environment, Tom Yarmass, Network Appliance, 10:45 AM
In depth technical overview of network attached storage (NAS) in an Oracle environment. Discussion of the flexibility, reliability, performance and administration advantages of NAS. How to eliminate tape-based recovery of the database.
 
WebDB from a User's Perspective, Kevin Loney, Kevin Loney Consulting, L.L.C., 1:00 PM
WebDB allows developers to create and maintain applications via a set of PL/SQL packages and tools specific to this development toolset. Database administrators of WebDB applications need to take the WebDB architecture into account when implementing processes for database administration. In this presentation, participants will see the DBA activities needed to secure, tune, and effectively implement WebDB application databases. Backup/recovery and sizing issues will also be discussed.
 
TBA, Pete Silva, 2:15 PM
TBA
 
Ask Oracle Tools/DBA Expert Panel, moderated by Matt Reagan, Centocor, Inc., 3:00 PM
Bring your questions, concerns, thoughts and stories.  This is your opportunity to ask the questions you don't dare ask at the office, and come away with answers, directions, and approaches you can take to the database administration issues that you need to handle.  Novices and experts are all welcome.

 

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