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Manager's Guide to 11g New Features(Business Level)
This presentation will look at which 11g new features should be investigated for use by managers. The presenter will discuss when and why to use those new features.

10g Tuning - Tuning Oracle has Radically Changed (Technical Level)
This presentation focuses on tuning Oracle10g. We will briefly review how Oracle has changed over the years and demonstrate the company's current direction with 10g. We'll look at RAC and how it can prepare you for moving to grid computing, how Enterprise Manager lets you manage the entire environment and some other tuning features. We will also cover statspack tuning in detail, demonstrating how to use statspack to evaluate and fix issues related to the top five wait events, load profile, instance efficiency ratios, latch waits, top SQL, instance activity, and file i/o issues. Finally, we'll look at some helpful V$ views and X$ tables when you need to dig deeper that can help as well.

My Adventures Tuning Oracle Applications on RAC with Grid Control (Technical Level)
This presentation will focus on experiences of tuning Oracle Applications on RAC using Oracle Grid Control (Enterprise Manager Grid Conrol).

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Rich Niemiec's Thoughts and Experiences with Oracle Database 11g (Business Level Podcast)

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When a Good Cluster Goes Bad (Business Level)
This presentation will address the ecosystem need to support Clustering technologies. The primary focus will be on Oracle Real Application Clusters but will also touch on VERITAS Cluster Services, HP Service Guard and several other cluster solutions.
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Take the Plunge: Top New 11g PL/SQL Features (Technical Level)
This presentation will cover the new key PL/SQL-related features specific to Oracle 11g. The new features covered include: new conditional compilation, new PL/SQL commands, new and enhanced Oracle supplied packages, new functions, new enhanced SQL commands, etc. Each of the features covered will include example code to enforce the new feature's capabilities and usefulness.