is that the Jack Nicholas that spells his name Jack Nicklaus, and is known for his golf skills? On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Carol Dacko <dackoc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone! First, I can't believe that I am sending this announcement > out as a die-hard Michigan Wolverine fan. BUT, it is Oracle related and it > is Gaja who is the trainer. > > Here are the particulars: > > The Ohio Oracle User group is presenting a two-day > > "Performance Management Seminar in Columbus on March 25-26. Gaja > Vaidyanatha, who is teaching the seminar, is one of the most recognized > experts in Oracle performance tuning. You may have read one of his books, > Oracle Performance Tuning 101 by Oracle Press, or Oracle Insights: Tales of > the Oak Table. Or, you may have seen him present at Collaborate or Oracle > Open World. > This seminar is offered at a much lower cost than what Oracle charges for > their classes, and with Gaja teaching it magnifies the value per dollar. The > details of the seminar are below and on our website, ooug.org. If you need > recommendations for lodging in Columbus please let us know. Hope to see you > in Columbus next month. " > > This was sent to me by Bonnie Bizzaro, the Vice Presidet of the Ohio Oracle > Users Group. > > Meeting Date: March 25-26, 2010 > Meeting Location: > Dublin Community Recreation Center at Coffman Park > 5600 Post Rd Dublin, OH 43017 (614) 410-4550 > This facility provides free wireless internet access. > Registration: > You must pre-pay to attend this special meeting. Please ensure your > payment reaches us by the dates denoted below in "Meeting Cost". This > meeting is a possible 2 day event, if you're interested in attending both > days, please let us know ahead of time. If there is not enough interest for > the 2 days, we'll make it a 1 day event only. > Meeting Cost: > $275/day until Feb 28 > $300/day from March 1 - March 11 > Registration Form > > The meeting includes presentations, breakfast, lunch and snacks. Gift > giveaways will vary but usually include drawings for Oracle books. All > attendees are automatically registered in the OOUG gift drawings. > Occasionally, vendor representatives will offer additional gift drawings > that require attendees to register directly with the vendor in order to be > eligible to win a prize. Registration for vendor gift drawings is entirely > at the option of the attendee and is not governed by the OOUG's privacy > policy. > Meeting Schedule: > Time Speaker & Topic > 8:00a - 9:00a Registration / Breakfast > 9:00a - 9:15a Announcements > 9:15a - 12:00p Gaja Presentation. > 12:00a - 1:00p Lunch > 1:00p - 3:45p Gaja Presentation. > 3:45p - 4:00p Gift Drawings, Wrap up > Presentation Abstracts: > Two-Day Oracle Performance Management Seminar > The world of Oracle performance management has a reputation as part > science, part art, and mostly wizardry. > This seminar imparts the core principles of performance management by > sharing a methodology to investigate, determine, and implement "meaningful > solutions" to real problems. This seminar covers all releases of Oracle from > version 7 to 11G, predominantly focusing on versions 9i and 10g. > The syllabus for the seminar includes the following: > Oracle Database Architecture Review > What is Multi-Version Read Consistency (MVRC) and why is it relevant? > How does Oracle implement MVRC? > What is Performance Optimization? > When should you optimize? > Oracle Performance Tuning Methodology > The Method Behind the Madness > Oracle Diagnostics (I) > Operating System Diagnostics (II) > Correlating I & II > The Guts of OWI > The core performance diagnostic views > Low-level trace methods (10046, 10053) > Understanding the Oracle Optimizer > Performance Case Studies from the Real World) > Performance Management in Oracle 10G/11g > Conclusion > > Speaker Information: > Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha has over seventeen years of industry technical > expertise working with Oracle systems. He is the Principal of DBPerfMan LLC > (http://www.dbperfman.com), an independent consulting firm specializing in > the area of Oracle Database Performance Diagnostics & Management for Fortune > 500 corporations. > In the recent years, he has worked in a product management role providing > strategic and technical direction to application performance and storage > management solutions for companies like Veritas Corporation, Oracle > Corporation and Quest Software. Gaja also served as a Technical Manager at > Andersen Consulting (Accenture), where he specialized in Oracle Systems > Performance Management and led the Oracle Performance Management SWAT Team > within the Technology Product Services Group. > He is the primary author of the Oracle Performance Tuning 101 published by > Oracle Press . Gaja is also one of the co-authors of the book Oracle > Insights : Tales of the Oak Table, published by Apress . > His key areas of interests include application and database performance and > storage architectures for Oracle-based systems. He holds a Masters Degree in > Computer Science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has presented > many papers at various regional, national and international Oracle > conferences and has served as faculty of the IOUG-A Master Class University > and the Oracle University Celebrity Seminar Series. Gaja is a member of the > OakTable Network and can be reached at gaja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'