Oracle Conference on the James
May 17, 2012
Great Wolf Lodge
Williamsburg, VA

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Morning Keynote Address: Why Engineered Systems?
Robert Freeman, Oracle Corporation

Robert Freeman is a Master Principal Sales Consultant with Oracle Corporation and has been involved with Oracle Database Administration for over 20 years. Robert works for the Oracle Public Sector Platform Solutions Group in Las Vegas, Nevada, and specializes in the Oracle database. He is the author of some 13 books on topics ranging from RMAN, Oracle Database New Features, Replication, and OCP Certification. 

Afternoon Keynote Address: Thinking Clearly About Performance
Cary Millsap, Method-R Corporation
Creating high-performance as an attribute of complex software is extremely difficult business for developers, technology administrators, architects, system analysts, and project managers. However, by understanding some fundamental principles, performance problem-solving and prevention can be made far simpler and more reliable. This presentation describes those principles, covering the goals, the terms, the tools, and the decisions that you need to maximize your application’s chance of having a long, productive, high-performance life. Examples in this paper touch upon Oracle experiences, but are not restricted to Oracle products.

Cary Millsap is a public speaker, author, teacher, software designer and developer, entrepreneur, and software technology advisor. In 2008, he founded Method R Corporation, a company dedicated to making application software run faster and more efficiently. Cary’s technical papers are often quoted, his blog reaches thousands of people each month, and he has presented at hundreds events around the world. He wrote the book "Optimizing Oracle Performance" (O'Reilly 2003), for which he and co-author Jeff Holt were named Oracle Magazine's 2004 Authors of the Year.

Accelerating Your Oracle Performance with SSD Technology
Michael Ault, Texas Memory Systems
Optimize your Oracle environment for new SSD technologies, including using it for storage and flash cache. The presentation will include examples with real numbers showing what can be expected from use of SSDs in your Oracle environment.

Mike Ault has worked with Oracle since 1990. He is a frequent presenter at regional, national, and international conferences and has authored or co-authored over 24 books.

Getting a Kick Out of ASH & AWR
Vlado Barun, Oracle America
Active Session History (ASH) & Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) represent a rich repository of performance statistics. But where do you start and how do you integrate that into a practical method for SQL performance tuning? Attend this session to learn how to rapidly determine and resolve root causes of SQL performance issues using ASH & AWR.

Vlado Barun has 15+ years of enterprise database experience and specializes in efficiently engineering and administrating databases while minimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Vlado currently serves as a Sr. Principal Performance Engineer in the Oracle SaaS Operations Optimizations Team.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition – Integration with the Enterprise
Bob Bunting, Oracle Corporation
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) is a comprehensive business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities. Designed for scalability, reliability, and performance, OBIEE 11g delivers contextual, relevant, and actionable insight to everyone in an organization, resulting in improved decision-making, better-informed actions, and more efficient business processes. The presentation will provide an overview of OBIEE and focus on its integration with the enterprise.    

Bob Bunting is a Principal Solution Consultant with Oracle’s Public Sector organization.  He has been developing solutions with Oracle products for over 20 years as an architect, DBA, and application developer.  Since 1995, Bob has been working with Oracle customers in the Department of Defense as a pre-sales engineer. Bob is a SOA-certified architect, has presented at many HROUG meetings, and at the previous Oracle Conference on the James. 

Monitoring Databases in VMware
Dean Richards, Confio Software
Oracle on VMware???  Most of our customers have virtualized their application tier, but now are either virtualizing databases or planning to do so soon. This presentation will explore the fundamentals of monitoring databases running in a VMware environment. If you are using classic O/S monitoring tools, you may be getting misleading information. Understand which metrics are important and how to get the data.

Dean Richards is a Senior DBA for Confio Software and has over 20 years of experience in both development and database administration. He has focused his entire career on performance tuning of Oracle and SQL Server environments. Dean worked for 5+ years at Oracle as a performance consultant and has helped many customers solve difficult performance issues.

Margaret Norman is the Lead Database Administrator at Duke Energy and a frequent presenter at regional conferences.  Since 1996 Margaret has used Oracle to develop implement and maintain transactional processing systems for large numbers of concurrent use.

Bryn Llewellyn, Oracle Corporation

Greg Mays, B2B Solutions