ODTUG 2006 – Washington DC17-06-2006 – 21-06-2006

Alex Nuijten

Saturday 17-06-2006

Departure Movies:

– Firewall– Flight Plan– Hoodwinked

Wardman Park Marriot Hotel

Sunday 18-06-2006

National Zoo Applied Mathematics for Database

Professionals [Toon Koppelaars]– Working on book with Lex de Haan– Specifying Business Rules using unambiguous

mathematical notation– RuleGen

Speaker and Ambassador Meeting

Monday 19-06-2006

Keynote [Marco Tilli]– Core ETL is FREE with Oracle 10gR2

Keynote [Sohaib Abbasi Informatica]– High “TellSell” Level

Oracle XML Publisher – What’s it all about [Mark Rittman]– Introduction to XML Publisher– Rebranded to BI-Publisher

Monday 19-06-2006

SQL Games we can play in PL/SQL [Steven Feuerstein]– Bulk Operations– Forall Statements– Table Functions– Quest bought QNXO and QUTE

Tuning Oracle 9i/10g using Statspack [Rich Niemiec]– Overview of the Statspack Report– >140 slides

Application Development Tuning Best Practices [Peter Koletzke]

– PL/SQL– Forms– Java

Break up large UNION or other complex statements

- Put results together yourself with PL/SQL or Global Temporary Table

INSERT INTO or UPDATE on large record sets may need to process sets

-Again, with PL/SQL

-Commit Frequently (500-1000 rows)

-Or use BULK COLLECT

Best Tip:

“If you don’t like this presentation, don’t come to the

other ones I give”

“Tips”

Editor’s Choice Award

Andre Beland – The Oracle 10g Rules Manager and Expression Filter – Events for Business Rules

Lucas Jellema – Pretty JavaServer Faces Alex Nuijten – One Analytic Function can do more

than a 1000 lines of code David Schleis – Polishing up your Web Applications

with AJAX Maggie Tompkins – Lean Six Sigma Tools and

Techniques for Software Process Improvement

Tuesday 20-06-2006

The Water is still burning – A New quiz on Oracle SQL and PL/SQL

No Cary, we’re STILL not tuning the right stuff [Mogens Nørgaard]

– I & KTTM– Hash Value in V$SQL

One Analytic Function can do more than a 1000 lines of Code

SQL/PLSA Panel [Feuerstein – Jellema – Beumer - ?] SQL/PLSQL Panel [Feuerstein – Jellema – Beumer - ?]

Oracle 11g Specification Freeze Versioning Objects (24/7)

Wednesday 21-06-2006

Object Type Evolution. Solved!!! [Scott Knutsen] Google Maps and Oracle HTML DB [I. Michael Snyder]

– www.casetech.net: whitepapers and code samples Inside the Oracle 10g Cost Based SQL Optimizer [Donald

Burleson] JDeveloper and ADF for Forms Developers: Taking it to the

next level [Grant Ronald] XQuery in Oracle – the new XML Data Language [Kim Alex

Olson]– FLOWR

Oracle Webforms: Productivity with new choices [Matthieu de Graaf]

Sightseeing

White House

Washington Memorial

Vietnam Memorial

Jefferson Memorial

Thursday 22-06-2006

Shopping Flying back

– Chicken Little– King Kong

Friday 23-06-2006

Arrival at Schiphol … last weekend…

Proof we were there…