Exceptional Leadership; Be the Uncommon Leader (3.57MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 03/01/2006 Abstract: This presentation will change your life. It is a non-technical refreshing break to relax your mind from the technical sessions. The IT leader is now the pivotal position in an organization's business plan. This talk will focus on the attributes that a leader must have from a character perspective to combine with technical prowess. To be a leader that builds a truly great organization, you must build into the team: Integrity, Moral Courage, Physical Courage, Tact, Loyalty, Unselfishness, Initiative, Enthusiasm, Knowledge, Respect, Self Control, and Humility. The result will be the fortitude of an organization to handle any and all challenges. This presentation will teach you how to refine these attributes and bring out the Uncommon Leader within you.

Tuning Oracle9i/10g using Statspack & AWR (1.98MB) Presented by: Rich Niemiec Date: 03/01/2006 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.