Oracle Fusion Technology



John Hax will present Oracle's Fusion Technology on August 27th at 1pm in ABQ at UNM Continuing Ed.



The acquisition of BEA by Oracle and the subsequent release of Oracle Fusion middleware 11G has led to many changes in the Oracle Middleware stack. These changes impact both legacy Oracle products and acquired technologies from BEA Oracle will be presenting on the new Fusion Middleware roadmap and the latest evolution of the product stack.

We are looking forward to seeing you all there!

Kathy Myers NMOUG President

Oracle database Tuning

Rich Niemiec Webinar

If you only make one meeting this year, don't miss this one!

Rich Niemiec - YES! The Rich Niemiec! Tuning Oracle9i/10g using Statspack & AWR

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 . Your 2008 NMOUG Officers will be elected at the Apr 30th meeting.

If you would like to run for the board or if you would like to nominate someone, please email your nominations to me at mkm@ncgr.org

Your current NMOUG officers have all agreed to sign up for yet another year as well!
Currently your officers are:

President - Kathy Myers
Vice President - Donna Campbell
Treasurer - Allan Emord
Secretary - Jerry Quintana

You will need to be a current NMOUG member to run for the board or vote .

Meeting Location - NCGR in Santa Fe We will be meeting in Santa Fe at NCGR from 1-4pm.

NCGR is right off of I-25 at St. Francis Drive. The National Center for Genome Resources 2935 Rodeo Park Dr. East Santa Fe, NM 87505 Here is a link with directions to NCGR

If you would like to join us remotely, please reply to this email for instructions well before the meeting, like by Wednesday afternoon.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all here!

Kathy Myers NMOUG President

Oracle database Security

On January 17th, Jeremy Forman and Steve Lujan from Oracle will give a well received presentation on Oracle database Security and the many new features added in 10g.
The meeting will be in Santa Fe at NCGR, NCGR, the National Center for Genome Resources.
Link to mapquest.


Oracle Database Security and Compliance

Oracle Database delivers state-of-the-art capabilities to address rapidly emerging requirements in the areas of security, privacy and compliance. Reducing the risk of insider threats, complying with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and meeting the Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements are top priorities for many organizations worldwide. Oracle Database Vault provides highly privileged user access controls, separation of duty, and the ability to control who, when, where and how applications, data, and databases are accessed. Oracle Advanced Security Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) makes encryption of sensitive data simple with no changes to the existing application code. Recently introduced Oracle Audit Vault turns audit data into a key security resource for the enterprise, providing consolidation, reporting, proactive alerting and protection of audit data.

Topics to be discussed:
• Oracle Database Security and the PCI Standard
• Security Compliance Solutions
• Data Vault
• Audit Vault
• Advanced Security Option / Transparent Data Encryption


See you there!

Our next meeting will be held at

UNM Continuing Education, South Building, Room Lab E (second floor) in Albuquerque, NM.
UNM Continuing Education is located at
1634 University Blvd.,
Albuquerque, NM
(just north of Indian School Rd.) (GoogleMaps)

Speakers:

Session Abstract:
Possibly an executive or even a co-worker in your company considers Oracle still just a database company. And if it is someone within your management chain, it might be impacting your role without your knowledge of it. Oracle technology continues to change as well as its use and management. Database growth, business and Services Oriented Architecture continue to alter the role of the Oracle Administrator. Attend this presentation and learn how Fusion Middleware is changing the role of the database administrator as well as other technology professionals. New technology presents new opportunity if you are prepared to take advantage of it.

Speaker Bio:
Steve Lemme, Director of Product Management for CA, Inc. will be presenting his keynote talk for the No.Cal OUG meeting earlier this year. All attendees will be provided a full complementary copy (not trial) of the CA Database Command Center at *No Charge* courtesy of CA, Inc.CA Database Command Center is a browser-based, multi-database management solution that unifies and simplifies the management of different relational database management systems (RDBMS) with a common look and feel. Accessible from virtually anywhere via a browser, you can perform a variety of database operations on distributed and mainframe databases from one console.

Ruby of Rails primer Presented by Andres Paglayan



NOTE: Oracle was scheduled to present a "Mini Tech-Day" but renigged in the last moments.

Oracle and Mythics mini tech fair in Santa Fe

March 8, 2007    Bishop's Lodge
Join Oracle and Mythics at an Oracle Technology Day to learn from security experts how you can implement an enterprise security architecture that will protect your organization today and better prepare you for the threats of tomorrow. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get the information you need about identity management, database security, and SOA security.

Oracle has a long-established reputation for highly secure products. Today we're becoming known as a provider of security solutions that safeguard both Oracle and non-Oracle enterprises. A growing number of organizations rely on us for access control, user provisioning, secure backup, and other information-protection solutions to protect their critical infrastructures

Click Here (external link) for a More Detailed Agenda.

Join us and gain expert insight and advice on implementing an effective enterprise security architecture, one that holistically protects critical information assets from the threats of today and tomorrow. You will learn best practices, gain early visibility into emerging trends, and witness leading edge security products and technologies.

Thank you for your time and interest; we look forward to seeing you there!

The Bishop’s Lodge Resort and Spa
1297 Bishop’s Lodge Rd
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone: 505-983-6377

more info at Mythics event page (external link)

Mythics registration page (external link)

Semantic Web
• "Semantic Web" is a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to describe an evolution of the existing web so that it includes descriptive "meta information" to aid in the automated processing of its content. The descriptive information consists of assertions about web-accessible resources, and is encoded in a language known as RDF (Resource Description Framework). A related formalism known as OWL (a mixed up acronym for Web Ontology Language) is syntactically similar to RDF, and is used in conjunction with RDF to provide meta information. OWL has its roots in a branch of Artificial Intelligence known as Description Logics, and is the W3C standard for providing meta information on the Semantic Web. Because of OWL's basis in formal logic, it can be used by a suitable reasoner to derive information that is logically entailed but not explicitly stated. Because of the large amount and varied structure of biological data available on the web, the Semantic Web with its promise of large scale automation has drawn considerable attention from the bioinformatics community.

Oracle's RDF Tool
The NMOUG is pleased to welcome Susie Stephens, Principal Product Manager for Life Sciences at Oracle to speak at our Dec 7th meeting. Susie will be presenting indepth on Oracle's RDF Semantic Web technology. Oracle is going above and beyond for this meeting and Susie is flying out from the east coast to be here, so please put this meeting on your schedule and try hard to attend. If you only make one meeting this year, this is the one!


• From Oracle.com: Oracle Spatial 10g introduces the industry's first open, scalable, secure and reliable RDF management platform. Based on a graph data model, RDF triples are persisted, indexed and queried, similar to other object-relational data types. The Oracle 10g RDF database ensures that application developers benefit from the scalability of Oracle 10g to deploy scalable and secure semantic applications.
  
  
  Application areas include:
  • Life Sciences: Biological pathway analysis, discovery and enhanced search.
  • Defense & Intelligence: Data and content integration, reasoning and inference
  • Enterprise Application Integration: Data and systems integration, semantic enterprise integration and semantic web services.
  • Supply chain integration, sourcing optimization and customer service automation
  Application developers can now use the power of the Oracle 10g Database to design and develop a wide range of semantic-enhanced business applications. www.oracle.com/technology/tech/semantic_technologies/index.html
  
  
• From Semantic Technologies Center:
  • Semantic Technologies are designed to extend the capabilities of information on the Web and enterprise systems to be networked in meaningful ways. The adoption of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards like XML, RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language) serve as foundation technologies to advancing the adoption of semantic technologies.
  • RDF was originally created in 1999 as a standard on top of XML for encoding metadata. Since then, and perhaps especially after the updated RDF spec in 2004, the scope of RDF has really evolved into something greater. The most exciting uses of RDF aren't in encoding information about web resources, but information about and relations between things in the real world: people, places, concepts, etc
  • more at www.w3.org/RDF
  
  Also, please feel free to let other people know about Susie's talk. I think there will be good cross over between the NMOUG and other types of user groups. Please put out the word to anyone in the biotech arena, web and espeically semantic web development, and any other users who may be interested.
  Remember, while we appreciate membership, you do not have to be a member of the NMOUG to attend a meeting.
  Susie's presentation should be a really great oportunity to learn something new! We will be meeting in Santa Fe at NCGR from 1-4pm. map and directions
  See you in December, Kathy Myers NMOUG President

Jack Malloch
Oracle Corporation
Advanced Support Tools Workshop

• Getting the most from the MetaLink Knowledge Browser, advanced search functions, My Headlines, and other MetaLink tips.
• Avoiding problems, with Support Diagnostics, easy and powerful Database and Applications tools to proactively catch and correct potential problems early, such as setup, performance, closing, and other activity issues.
• Resolving issues faster with Oracle Collaborative Support.
• The power of My Configs & Projects, to catalogue details of your computing environments and projects, perform proactive Healthchecks, and link critical info to your Service Requests.
• Upgrade to 11.5.10 with the Maintenance Wizard its easy, automated, and repeatable.
• Leverage Best Practices and Escalation procedures to maximize your Support investment.

Julia Clarey
Oracle Corporation
PeopleSoft

• Working Effectively With Support for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards Users
• Are you a technical and/or functional user of the PeopleSoft Enterprise and/or JD Edwards Enterprise One/World applications?
• Do you have questions about Oracle's Lifetime Support Policy?
• Are you responsible for logging cases with the Global Support Center?
• Do you have questions about how to work effectively with the Global Support Center?
• Have you wondered what your options are when you disagree with a response given by the Global Support Center?
• Do you know what happens to your enhancement requests?
• Would you like to learn more about the Global Support Center's problem resolution process?