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HROUG would like to announce our next meeting in January, 2008. Our guest speaker, Tom Kyte, Senior Technologist, Oracle Server Technologies, Oracle Corp. will be joining us for an evening meeting on January 16th at Old Dominion University.

Mr. Kyte is the Tom of asktom.oracle.com and has authored many excellent books on Oracle technology (many of which should be standard issue for anyone new to design and programming in an Oracle environment). So, mark your calendars and join us for a pizza evening at ODU with Tom Kyte.

The topic of the meeting will be The Top 11 Things About Oracle 11g

Exact meeting location @ ODU will be posted closer to the date, so please stay tuned. And, as always, please RSVP to hzamperini@yahoo.com in order to ensure adequete food (pizza) and seating for everyone.

See you in Jan 2008!

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Bio :Tom Kyte is a Senior Technologist, Oracle Server Technologies division. Before starting at Oracle, Kyte worked as a systems integrator building large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications, mostly for military and government customers. Kyte spends a great deal of time working with the Oracle database and, more specifically, working with people who are working with the Oracle database. In addition, Kyte is the Tom behind the AskTom column in Oracle Magazine, answering people’s questions about the Oracle database and its tools ( http://asktom.oracle.com/ ). Kyte is also the author of Expert Oracle Database Architecture (Apress, 2005), Expert One on One Oracle(Wrox Press, 2001/Apress 2004), Beginning Oracle Programing (Wrox press, 2002/Apress 2004), and Effective Oracle by Design (Oracle Press, 2003). These are books about the general use of the database and how to develop successful Oracle applications.

The next HROUG meeting is Nov 7th AM, and we are happy to host Quest Corporation’s “HROUG TOAD’s User Day”

Agenda:

8:30 - 8:45 AM Registration, user networking, and announcements
8:45 - 10:45 AM Quest Corp. (see below)
10:45 - 11:00 AM Raffle, closing

Location:

Cambridge College, Greenbrier Parkway, Chesapeake.
Directions can be found at: http://www.cambridgecollege.edu/chesapeake/directions.cfm

Topic: Quest Corp, TOAD Users Day

Today’s business need for application innovation, administration, and performance management creates different roles within an organization. That’s why our industry experts provide you with focused solutions tailored to the challenges in your specific environment. However, we also believe that all of these solutions should be integrated into a holistic application management approach. We will briefly review the overall Quest Application Management strategy and drill down for new feature training into Toad which is a part of our complete Application Management solution suite. We welcome project managers, DBA’s, Oracle developers, application developers and technical analysts to participate in this session.

If you are an Oracle developer or an Oracle DBA, are developing an application around an Oracle database, or simply access Oracle as an analyst …

You will learn how to:

• Effortlessly create and execute complex SQL queries - create and schedule reports
• Optimize those SQL queries to optimize SQL & JDBC calls using new technology
• Automate PL/SQL Debugging and Personal Code Reviews making it simple to fix code errors and inefficiencies in your stored procedures and functions
• Scan your Application Code, regardless of language to find and automate optimization of SQL to improve your SQL & JDBC calls, etc.
• Discover what the performance impact of your development build will be before deploying to production

Oracle DBA’s will be introduced to these technologies:

• Schedule SQL Scanning for Optimization potential
• Introduction to Quest solution to enhancing your current availability/performance monitoring strategy

To be covered:

• Review Toad’s DB Dev best practices and tips/tricks for all users including business analysts
• Review DBA features
• Introduction to Quest’s Application and Business Service Mgmt Strategy

About Quest Software:

We have received these honors from the industry we serve:

#1 Application Management Vendor - (According to Gartner Dataquest, 2005)
#1 Distributed Database Management Vendor-(According to GartnerDataquest 2005)
#1 Windows Management Vendor - (According to Forrester, 2004)

Java Industry awards

• Please go to: http://www.quest.com/jprobe/awards.asp
• We received a finalist position from Java application developers for Toad in the
• Productivity Award” category of the annual Jolt Awards
• More of our Java specific solutions can be found here.

For more information on Quest please visit: www.quest.com Please RSVP to hzamperini@yahoo.com in order to ensure adequate seating and refreshments.
We hope to see you !

The next HROUG meeting is Oct 3rd. Robert “Bob” Bunting, from Oracle Corp., will be presenting for our AM meeting at Cambridge College

Topic : BPEL Human Workflow

Human Workflow features in Oracle BPEL Process Manager enable human participation in end-to-end processes. The human workflow features include a work-list application, sophisticated routing and assignment, rich notifications and escalations, and easy to use declarative modeling within JDeveloper.

Meeting location : Cambridge College, Greenbrier Parkway, Chespeake.
Directions can be found at : http://www.cambridgecollege.edu/chesapeake/directions.cfm

Agenda
8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration, networking time and announcments
9:00 - 10:00 AM Bob Bunting, Oracle Corp
10:00 - 10:30 AM Raffle, closing

Please RSVP in order to ensure adequete seating and refreshments.

For the Sep. 5th lunchtime HROUG meeting. Steve Karam, of Burleson Consulting, will present:

Just a Bit: Data Warehouse Theory For Practical Design
With so many acronyms for data integration on the market today (SOA, EDA, ESB, ELT, EII, A2A, B2B, etc.), it is hard to know exactly where you should go with your Data Warehouse. This presentation takes a step back from the hubbub of enterprise data integration and focuses upon the true core components of a warehouse and the real meaning of “information” from the bit (0 or 1) up.

For those of you who don’t know Steve (yet) - our local author of 2 Oracle books! (check them out : http://www.dba-oracle.com/steve_karam_books.htm)

Steve Karam is one of less than 20 DBA’s worldwide to achieve the coveted Oracle 10g Certified Master status and he has been honored with the prestigious Oracle ACE designation. A former senior instructor for Oracle University, Steve has a proven track record in performance and troubleshooting on dozens of high profile Oracle systems, and complex Oracle 10g RAC environments.

The meeting will from 11:30 - 1:30 and will break out as follows:

11:30-12:00: Registration / Lunch
12:00-01:00: Speaker
01:00-01:30: Question and answers, raffles, announcments

Meeting location:
Info Tech of Virginia 5555 Greenwich Rd
Virginia Beach, VA 23462-6542
see map: http://maps.citysearch.com/map/view/10605060

So, please RSVP to hzamperini@yahoo.com (please note new email address) in order ensure adequete food and drinks for everyone.

Just a reminder about the Wednesday July 11th HROUG meeting. Our speaker, Jacob Bardin, with the Sentrigo Security Group, will focus his talk on security issues in the real world, discussing the current market issues as well as the various product capabilities.

It is an evening meeting, running from 6:00PM - 8:30PM at the Cambridge College campus located off Greenbrier Parkway. As HROUG will be providing dinner, please RSVP to hzamperini@cox.net so we will make sure to have adequate food and beverages for everyone. We have been given 2 of the hottest, new Oracle Press books to raffle off. Thanks to McGraw-Hill

Oracle Database 10g Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques by Richard Niemiec

Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook by Chris Ostrowski

Hope to see everyone at the meeting!

Meeting location: Cambridge College, Greenbrier Parkway, Chespeake. Directions can be found at : http://www.cambridgecollege.edu/chesapeake/directions.cfm

Company Bio : Sentrigo is an innovator in enterprise database security software, providing real-time monitoring, intrusion prevention and auditing with unprecedented granularity and protection. Databases are at the heart of corporate IT infrastructure but remain vulnerable to data theft, breaches and attacks. By securing the database, Sentrigo helps enterprises secure their business. You can now download Hedgehog standard and/or an eval copy of Hedgehog Enterprise from their website http://www.sentrigo.com.

Hope to see everyone at the meeting!

HROUG is pleased to announce that Jacob Bardin, with the Sentrigo Security Group, will be speaking at the July 11th, 2007 meeting. Sentrigo an innovative startup focusing on Oracle DB Security. A topic that seems to be on everyone’s minds these days. Jacob will focus his talk on security issues in the real world, discussing the current market issues as well as the various product capabilities.

The July meeting will be an evening meeting, running from about at 6:00PM to 8:30PM. We are hoping to have the meeting at the Cambridge College campus located off Greenbrier Parkway and are still working out the details. We will confirm the location in a later email. So, please jot down the date and make plans to attend the July HROUG meeting. Join us for FREE dinner and a soda.

Company Bio : Sentrigo is an innovator in enterprise database security software, providing real-time monitoring, intrusion prevention and auditing with unprecedented granularity and protection. Databases are at the heart of corporate IT infrastructure but remain vulnerable to data theft, breaches and attacks. By securing the database, Sentrigo helps enterprises secure
their business. You can download a free copy of Hedgehog standard and/or an eval copy of Hedgehog Enterprise from their website http://www.sentrigo.com

Hope to see everyone at the meeting!

Hi Everyone,

We are happy to announce that we have lined up our next HROUG meeting for June 6th. System Efficiency, a solutions provider company has offered to come speak to us on service oriented architectures (SOA). At my request, the speakers are going to customize their presentation towards the Oracle/Peoplesoft products, however by utilizing the principals of SOA, there is a broad range of practical and profitable uses for this way of looking at busines needs. This presentation is highly recommended for everyone, especially those of us who have legacy applications and have a need to moderize the presentation of it.

Our meeting location will be at Info Tech Of Virginia, as they have offered to host us again. See below for address info.

Agenda:
8:00 - 8:30 - Registration
8:30 - 10:00 - Speaker: Lorne Kaufman, System Efficiency
Title: Leveraging PeopleSoft/Oracle technology to enhance your ERP

Abstract:
Organizations IT Systems are generally made up of disparate systems which communicate with each other through some means. How can an organization leverage their existing Technology investment in PeopleSoft/Oracle to improve, enhance and bring together all of these systems? This presentation will outline delivered technology out of the box that allows these disparate systems to integrate and collaborate with each other.
Web Services :

* What the technology is
* How to leverage these technologies to enhance your ERP
* Integrating your in-house and third-party system with your ERP System
* Leveraging Web Services in an SOA world to integrate custom applications into your PeopleSoft System (Home Grown Customer Portal integrated into your PeopleSoft System by leveraging the business logic)
* Leveraging Web Services to complete functions that would otherwise have to be developed or done manually in the upstream process of AR/Billing (Customer Credit Check), (Address Validation), (Sales and Use Tax Calculation)

Meeting location:
Info Tech of Virginia 5555 Greenwich Rd
Virginia Beach, VA 23462-6542
see map: http://maps.citysearch.com/map/view/10605060

After the meeting there will elections for the 2007-2009 HROUG Board of Directors. Everyone interested in joining the board should plan to attend. If you can not make it, but wish to be considered, please contact me, or anyone on the HROUG board and we will make sure to include your name on the ballot. Please make sure clarify which position your wanting to get involved with.

There will be several raffles for books and IOUG “COLLABORATE 07″ conference goodies. Must be present to win

Hope to see EVERYONE at the meeting. As always, please RSVP to hzamperini@cox.net to ensure that we have enough seating and refreshments to go around.

V/R
Hazel Zamperini

HROUG

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