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American DBA Online & NJCCPS Seminar on
latest Oracle Technology
March 24 2007 is an important date for both NJCCPS and
American DBA Online. It was the first time that the two organizations held
a technical seminar together. The event at Clarion hotel in Edison, New
Jersey was a huge success. It attracted over 100 IT professionals who took
the Saturday afternoon to learn Oracle related technologies as well as IT
trend.
The seminar started with opening remarks by the two
presidents, Mr. Jiangang Luo from NJCCPS and Mr. David Wang from American
DBAOnline. Jiangang mainly briefed us the reason behind why the two parties
co-organized the event and acknowledged the team effort which made the this
happen. David stated as well that NJCCPS and DBAOnline had cooperated many
times in the past, it was really exciting to have such event together.
David also kept his one-minute technical tip program and shared with us one
new feature in 10g, the Faster Start Failover tip for DataGuard. Ms. Jean
Xie, a beautiful young lady from NJCCPS, who happened to be an Oracle DBA
as well, hosted the seminar.
The seminar was separated into two forums. The first
half part of the seminar was for Oracle generic technologies. Our keynote
speaker was Mr. Jon Huang. Jon is a Principal Solution Architect from
Oracle. Jon had been a frequent presenter at numerous Oracle technical
events as well as Partner Corporate. Audience was very impressed by the big
picture he presented to us about Oracle's strategy to customer's success
and the role of Oracle Fusion Platform and Fusion Application will play in
Oracle's road map to stay ahead in software industry.
Our second speech in the general session was by Mr. Qi
Wang with the topic of 'Experience the Data Warehousing with Oracle10g'. Qi
is a consulting technical manager in Business Intelligent/Analytics
consulting division of the Oracle Corporation. He has over 15 years of
experience in data warehousing for telecommunications, manufacturing,
financial, pharmaceutical industries as well as government agencies. By
utilizing Oracle OLAP technologies, he has implemented many Enterprise Data
Warehouse Applications that focus on business intelligent and decision
making process for meeting the fast changing and growing business needs.
The presentation really summarized his knowledge and experience on Data
Warehousing technology on the design, implementation, tuning and best
practices side that will benefit us a lot.
During break there were raffles and prizes, provided by
MetLife agent Sarah Qian, Howard Wang and by DoubleBridge. Audience also
got opportunity to network with fellow IT professionals working in
different companies and industries.
The second part of the seminar was separated in two
rooms and went concurrently. This is also our new format as well. In
Windsor Room, still hosted by Jean Xie, there were two DBA related topic.
In Lincoln Room Hosted by Steven Liu, there were two application
presentations. Our first DBA speaker was Mr. Indy Johal who is a Manager
for PR Newswire. Indy has been working as lead database administrator and
architect from last more than 10 years. He is the founder of Data Softech
Inc., a New Jersey based company specialized for providing complete
database support solution and training to various clients. He has written
various Oracle technical articles for journals and magazines including
Oracle Magazine. He has also spoken at Oracle Open World and many Oracle
User Groups. Mr. Johal shared with us on Oracle 10g AWR, ASH, ADDM,
Advisory and ASMM which was very interesting to DBAs. For those who just
got used to Statspacks, you should consider using those new tools for
performance tuning and analyses. The ASH feature especially would enable us
to see the performance history for your database inside your SGA and you
can run report just once to do the comparison. That sounded really cool.
Mr. Stefan Kwiatkowski, who was Senior Staff Sales Engineer from Symantec
Field Sales, has been with Symantec since 1998 and has focused on solutions
for Enterprise Storage and Availability technology for both large and small
data centers in the United States. With the widespread growth of Oracle in
open systems, Mr. Kwiatkowski has identified storage management for Oracle
RDBMS as being a major concern for all Oracle users who manage critical
systems. He has made storage management and availability for Oracle RDBMS
his area of expertise, and has presented to other Oracle groups such as
NYOUG and Oracle Technology Symposiums. Mr. Kwiatkowski also has a broad
background in open systems networking and security, working with open
systems resellers and military agencies. Although being a salesman, Stefan
is very technical in depth and always impressed us with his knowledge on
both the system and Oracle world. In this speech, he presented us with the
title speech 'ASM vs. VERITAS for Oracle10g RAC'. He gave us very clear
overview of Oracle's RAC architecture down to storage level and explained
to us how RAC could leverage their solution to obtain optimal performance
and manageability.
At the other room for application forum, the first
speaker was Mr. Jingnan Zhou. Mr. Zhou is a technical manager of the
Service-Oriented Architecture group in Oracle Advanced Technology
Solutions. His expertise area includes J2EE application framework,
Enterprise application integration, Service-oriented architecture and
Oracle 11i Business suite implementation and integration Oracle North
America region. He is the only person who is both Microsoft technology and
Oracle technology expert in Oracle NY Metro region. He is also a
contributor to open source community. In his speech he talked about Oracle
SOA and Fusion Middleware Our 2nd presentation for application session was
by Ms. Jayne Chu. Ms. Chu is a technical manager in the Advanced Technology
Services Consulting division of Oracle Corporation. She has a very
extensive background in data modeling for large-scale data warehouses. For
the six years at Oracle, she has led and managed data warehouse and data
mart project teams with responsibilities for all phases of Data Warehouse
development life cycle which includes requirements gathering,
documentation, data mapping & transformation, data modeling &
system design, development of system specifications, integration of
desktop/client and all data warehouse server back ends, development of
integration and user acceptance test plans, and user training. Jayne was a
frequent speaker to DBAOnline as well. This time she talked about Oracle
Business Intelligence Solutions from application side of view. It was a very
technical intensive afternoon that everybody agreed that the knowledge they
learned from those top experts will help them in their current positions.
It will also enable them to stay ahead of the game and knew fairly new
technologies.
The event continued as over 50 people headed to Garden
Buffet to have a dinner party. The party hosted by Jean Xie and David Wang.
Members from both organizations got to know each other more and became
closer while having a good time. There were funny games, jokes, riddles,
singing, dancing and good food. There were a lot of raffles and prizes as
well provided by DoubleBridge and other vendors. Everybody really enjoyed
the party and looked forward to the next joint event.
Once again, we would like to thank all of the speakers
for their contribution; We like to thank Oracle Corporation for continue
sponsoring the events of American DBAOnline; We like to thank all the
officers and committee members from both organizations to prepare and run
the event, especially, David Wang, Jiangang Luo, Andy Lin, Wei Tang, Jean
Xie, Qi Wang, Carol Sheng, John Zhong, Laurel Lou, Warren Yang, Yi Han,
Daniel Hu, April Cai, Yan Lin, Stan Ma, Jeff Zheng, Steven Liu and Eddie
Cheung, etc; We like to thank all members and guests of NJCCPS and DBAOnline
come to attend the event.
NJCCPS and DBA Online Committee
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