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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Next Meeting: June Meeting TBD

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Oracle Performance Research Seminar - Wednesday, May 22,2013

Craig Shallahamer - OraPub,Inc.

I'm thrilled to announce that our good friend and Ace Director, Craig Shallahmer is coming to Tampa again this May. Craig has spent a whole year digging into those sticky performance issues that plague us all. He will be presenting all of his latest findings and kernels of wisdom in a 1-day Performance Research Seminar on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 9am-5:30pm.

The full day seminar will be held in the banquet room at The Laughing Cat. Full details, as well as links to register, are available at http://resources.orapub.com/Tampa_Oracle_performance_training_seminar_May_2013_p/201305tampaseminar.htm. Cost for the full day seminar is $549, but SOUG members receive a 10% discount by entering the code "SOUG2013" when registering.

Feedback I received from the attendees at last year's class was that it was the most valuable class they had attended all year. This is a whole new set of Performance Tuning information that I'm sure will be well worth the price. Get it on your calendar now and start shaking down your boss for a small taste of that training budget you know he has!

This year's topics will include:

Tips for Oracle performance analysis research
Parsing: hard, soft, and softer... How bad is bad?
Cursors, child cursors and more child cursors
Altering DML batch sizes
Resolving Log File Sync using commit write
Dealing with skewed data... the right way
Merging time based analysis and queuing theory
Are you sure it.s the index root block?
Calculating CPU utilization from v$osstat
SQL CPU time reliability

Here is the URL with more details: q.orapub.com/1d

NEW MEETING LOCATION !!! NEW MEETING DAY OF THE WEEK !!!

With the departure of Knowlege Systems from the Tampa market, we are moving our standard meeting location and day of the week. The great folks at New Horizons Computer Learning Center have generously offered to host our meetings in their facility at 5402 West Laurel Street, Suite #200, Tampa, FL 33607.

Our meetings will be held on the 4th Tuesday of each month starting with the March 2013 meeting.

NEW MEETING LOCATION !!! NEW MEETING DAY OF THE WEEK !!!

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How many miles has your SOUG backpack travelled?
When we are selecting our conference gear for TechDay, one of our goals is to provide something that would have a useful life beyond the day's event. For at least these attendees, we seem to have attained our goal.

Long-term member John Rehg started this theme by sending me these pictures of his SOUG backpack in Kaua'i, Hawaii a couple weeks after our event.

Charter member Mary Schilling raised the bar (or at least the altitude) by sending me these pictures from her recent visit to Machu Picchu, Peru.

If you've got a picture of your SOUG gear you'd care to share, mail us a copy. We'd love to hear from you.

The Suncoast Oracle Users' Group (SOUG) aims to further the relationship between Oracle users and partners and to actively promote and enhance the mission and objectives of the International Oracle Users' Group (IOUG) in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.

SOUG provides the forums and programs that encourage the sharing of knowledge and skills amongst database administrators, applications developers, technical managers and other individuals who have interest in Oracle software, development tools, and applications.