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COUG Members June 10th Presentation

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Data Warehousing and Mining

Dr. Randall Dyck


Abstract:

The Data Warehousing and Mining concepts and commands listed below will be demonstrated
and URL’s for additional information will be provided.

Data Warehouses
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OLTP designs vs. OLAP designs
Commands and tools to initially load data
Commands and tools to keep data current
Methods to increase performance


Data Mining
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Advanced SQL to analyze data
Advanced PLSQL to analyze data
Tools for further analysis



Where: Suncor Energy Centre, 150 6th Avenue SW, 17th floor Fraser Room
When: Thursday June 10th, 2010.
Registration 2:00 PM, Presentation 2:30 PM, Duration: 1 hour


Presenter Bio(s):


PhD in Computer Science
Over 18 years in industry building systems around the world
Over 10 years in universities teaching Oracle design, development, and administration
Total of 25 years of experience with Oracle, from versions 6.0 to 11.0



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COUG Year End Social
Come help us wrap up our 2009-2010 season!! Join us at Bottlescrew Bill’s, voted Calgary’s Best Pub in 2009 by WHERE magazine!

Thursday June 10th 2010
Directly following the final 2009-2010 COUG meeting
3:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Bottlescrew Bill’s Old English Pub
140 – 10 Avenue S.W.

Oracle 11g Upgrade Seminar
Join Tom Kyte and the Oracle Development team for an Oracle Database 11g Upgrade Seminar.

Are you considering upgrading your database to Oracle 11g?
Are you unsure of what’s involved and the latest best practices for upgrading Oracle databases?
This seminar is a rare opportunity to hear directly from Oracle’s Upgrade Development Team and give you all the latest best practices, hints & tips needed to make your upgrades successful.

Don’t forget COUG Members! Tom Kyte has reserved some time in the afternoon just for us!


Wednesday, June 2, 2010
8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.



Agenda
8:00 AM Registration and Breakfast
9:00 AM Keynote Address – Presented by Tom Kyte
Why Upgrade? Because Change Is The Only Constant
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM General Session:
Upgrade Preparation – Support Policies,Patches, Documentation, Upgrade Paths
11:15 AM Breakout Sessions (choose to attend one session)
Session #1
Database Upgrade: DBUA, Command Line, Post Upgrade, Alternatives, ASM Upgrade
Session#2
Performance Evaluation: SQL Plan Management, SQL Performance Analyzer, Database Replay
12:15 PM Networking Lunch, Wrap Up and Raffle Drawing
1:30 PM Calgary Oracle User Group Session
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Great offer for COUG members!

Check out the resources page and link to the McGraw-Hill online bookstore where COUG members will receive 40% off Oracle Press books

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  • COUG
  • February 23rd, 2010

COUG presentation and year end wrap up Thursday June 10th/2010

The next COUG presentation will be held on Thursday June 10th/2010, 2pm at the Suncor Energy Centre 17th floor. Our presenter is Dr. Randall Dyck speaking on Data Warehousing and Mining concepts. Come help us wrap up our 2009-2010 season!! Join us at Bottlescrew Bill’s Old English Pub located at 140 – 10 Avenue S.W. directly following the final 2009-2010 COUG meeting from 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM

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CIPS Golf Tournament at Lynx Ridge

COUG members can enjoy the early bird membership price in the CIPS Golf Tournament at Lynx Ridge, but this special price is only available until May 14. For details go to https://securegs.com/cips/ebytes/golf.html Register today at https://securegs.com/cipsab/ and indicate that you are a member of COUG. Thank you for your continued support of COUG.

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Join Tom Kyte and COUG for a special event

On Wednesday, June 2nd/2010 Oracle is hosting an 11g Database Upgrade Seminar with Tom Kyte and the Oracle Development team. COUG has the special opportunity of having some time with Tom Kyte in the afternoon, following the networking lunch. This will certainly be a COUG presentation not to miss!

For event details and registration go to http://www.oracle.com/dm/10q4field/49090_oracle-database_11g.html

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  • COUG
  • October 21st, 2009

COUG new website

Welcome to the new COUG website. Please bear with us while we learn to use our new website and get it populated with upcoming events,  previous presentations and information of value to you, our members. Please feel welcome to use our blog and give us your feedback. We are excited about the additional functionality we will have with this new site.

COUG Executive

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