Tuning Oracle9i/10g using Statspack & AWR (4.88MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 02/06/2007 Abstract: What is a quick way to monitor, find and solve performance problems? Statspack & the 10g AWR Report are quick ways to solve many of your performance issues that plague your system. This presentation will show how to use statspack to evaluate and fix issues related to the top 5 wait events, load profile, instance efficiency ratios, wait events and wait histograms, latch waits, top SQL, instance activity, file i/o issues. We will also see how statspack compares to AWR Report and some of the additions that AWR Report gives you over statspack even though 80% is the same information as statspack. Come to this session to understand how to quickly solve performance issues without doing a system evaluation that is more costly the system itself. This includes both proactive tuning based on findings and reactive tuning based on wait events.

How Oracle Came to Rule the Database World (4.76MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 02/06/2007 Abstract: This is a break from the technical presentations, but not too much of a break. Sit back and listen to the history of the relational database go by. Find out the crucial moves that Oracle made at critical junctures of their history. See what drove the product from inception, over the rocky road and eventual to the top of the mountain. Learn what made Oracle the product a success, but also find out the attributes that made Oracle the company a font of technological wizardry. This talk will reveal several seldom heard facts and some unknown secrets of Oracle's success.

Tuning the Oracle Grid (10.0MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 02/06/2007 Abstract: This presentation will show the top ten tips when tuning your architecture for grid computing. Oracle has come a long when from when they first introduced clustering. The tools continue to improve and the installation continues to get better and easier. This presentation will show many screen shots of what the product encompasses.

Giving Winning Presentations (7.58MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 02/06/2007 Abstract: Every leader, manager, team leader and technology leader needs to effectively communicate information. How well you convey information to others can determine the success of a project, the relationship that you have with those around you and it can even determine your salary and how high you rise in the company. This presentation will focus on how to build and give winning presentations. This will show the keys to successful presentations along with my top tips for giving presentations. The topics that we'll cover include: