"I attended a Deep Dive because I was interested in a more detailed understanding of the tools and concepts. These sessions definitely had that concept in mind, rather than the sales-oriented approach people often take at conferences like this."
 -- COLLABORATE 10 – IOUG Forum Attendee

IOUG Deep Dive Education

Come early to COLLABORATE 11, so you can attend one of the IOUG Forum’s full-day training sessions! The IOUG's Deep-Dives, formerly known as University Seminars, are taking place Sunday, April 10 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. These five-hour sessions give you the opportunity to learn about a specialized topic that's of interest to you. Register* for one of the following sessions during the registration process to obtain a virtual dive into specific topics:

DD1: 2011 Performance Seminar
DD2: Configuring MySQL for Optimal Performance
DD3: Data Warehousing 101 – Soup to Nuts
DD5: Oracle 11g – A New Universe 
DD6: RAC Attack!

DD 1: 2011 Performance Seminar
Craig Shallahamer

This Oracle database performance seminar is composed of one-third Oracle internals, one-third quantitative diagnosis and analysis and one-third new material the speaker has yet to incorporate into his performance firefighting courses. While each section can stand on its own, the sections have been carefully integrated together into a single cohesive seminar, building from one section to the next. The seminar consists of five main sections:

• Oracle performance data gathering methods
• Analyzing resource consumption
• Numerically and visually creating a map of the performance situation
• An introduction of how performance solutions alter the system and the user's experience
• Deeply exploring the wait events buffer busy wait and read by other session

This is an intensive and fast-moving seminar that will leave you better equipped to tackle real-life production Oracle database performance issues. This seminar does not delve into Oracle's optimizer and tuning SQL statements.

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DD2: Configuring MySQL for Optimal Performance
Sheeri Cabral

There are many ways to tune your MySQL system for optimal performance. Sheeri K. Cabral, MySQL's first ACE Director, explains the most common tuning parameters. You will leave this Deep Dive with a good understanding of not only what to tune, but how and why certain variables should be tuned.

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DD3: Data Warehousing 101 – Soup to Nuts
Ian Abramson 

Learn how data warehouses should be built and how to approach their analysis and design, providing a methodology that has proven successful on many projects where various data warehouses have been implemented. The session will conclude with an in-depth review of the features and functions that all data warehouses need to provide the performance that is needed to turn data into knowledge. The session will provide the attendee with the information needed to design, build and deploy a data warehouse.

You will have the chance to learn the following:

• Why we build data warehouses?
• Data warehouse development methodologies, including Agile
• Data warehouse design techniques
• How to implement Oracle for a data warehouse
• How to use Oracle's ETL tools
• How to integrate BI in your data warehouse solutions
• And some of the options available to deliver high performance data warehouses

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DD5: Oracle 11g – A New Universe
Michael Ault

In this Deep Dive, we will discuss the many new features in Oracle 11g that make the database perform better and more reliably. DBA-related new features will be covered, as well as key SQL and PL/SQL enhancements and features.

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DD6: RAC Attack!

Join the IOUG for RAC Attack!, an in-depth training session on Real Application Clusters. Whether you’re new to RAC or familiar with it, this Deep Dive is one you won't want to miss. Learn via a hands-on lab format cluster installation prerequisites on Linux, installing Oracle clusterware, installing Oracle RDBMS, creating RAC database, failure testing and backup/recovery testing. You'll also be able to interact with RAC experts from IOUG and Oracle, as they'll be available to help you during the hands-on exercises.

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Registration Rates

Register for a Deep Dive seminar when registering for the conference. By registering as an IOUG conference attendee, you'll save over $300! The rates are as follows:

IOUG Attendee	$230 USD
Non-IOUG Attendee	$599 USD

*If you have already registered for the conference, but would like to add a Deep Dive on to your conference registration, simply e-mail ioug@showcare.com with your contact and payment information.

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