Thanks again to Entegreat University for providing the facilities and lunch.

NOTE: Please RSVP by replying to this message by Friday if you plan on attending.

============================================
Datawarehousing in a Chaotic Environment
- Presented by Henry Lovoy -
============================================

DATE:           Thursday, July 19
TIME:           11:30 am
PLACE:          Entegreat University
LUNCH:          Provided by Entegreat
RSVP REQUIRED:  Yes

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
EnteGreat University is on the first floor of the 1900 building at International
Park, just off I-459 on Acton Road.
There is a hot link to a map at <<http://www.entegreat.com/eg_contactus.htm>>

----------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
----------------------------------------------------------

Henry is currently spearheading the Datawarehousing efforts at
HEALTHSOUTH and he's prepared a presentation about his experiences
in the initial phases of a datawarehousing project in a chaotic
environment.

Henry's presentation will include the following topics:

        General Concepts
          What is a datawarehouse?
          OLTP vs. Datawarehousing
            Avoiding Joins
            Denormalization
            Derived Data & Aggregates
            Ad Hoc Queries
            Are Constraints Important?
        An Overview of HEALTHSOUTH's Technical Environment for DW
        Schemas
          Star
          Snowflake
          Dimensions
          Fact Tables
        Tuning
          Bitmap Indexes
          Partitioning
          Materialized Views
        ETL
          Extraction
          Transformation
          Loading
        Datawarehouse Bus Architecture
          Conformed Dimensions
          Analysis between Fact Tables
        HEALTHSOUTH's Warehouse
          Incremental Aproach
          Headcount DW
          Claims DW
        Gotchas
          Documentation
          Politics
---

Hope to see you all there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

REMINDER:  Please try to RSVP today if you plan to attend next week's meeting.

Thanks.

#####

Thanks again to Entegreat University for providing the facilities and lunch.

NOTE: Please RSVP by replying to this message by Friday if you plan on attending.

============================================
Datawarehousing in a Chaotic Environment
- Presented by Henry Lovoy -
============================================

DATE:           Thursday, July 19
TIME:           11:30 am
PLACE:          Entegreat University
LUNCH:          Provided by Entegreat
RSVP REQUIRED:  Yes

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
EnteGreat University is on the first floor of the 1900 building at International
Park, just off I-459 on Acton Road.
There is a hot link to a map at <<http://www.entegreat.com/eg_contactus.htm>>

----------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
----------------------------------------------------------

Henry is currently spearheading the Datawarehousing efforts at
HEALTHSOUTH and he's prepared a presentation about his experiences
in the initial phases of a datawarehousing project in a chaotic
environment.

Henry's presentation will include the following topics:

        General Concepts
          What is a datawarehouse?
          OLTP vs. Datawarehousing
            Avoiding Joins
            Denormalization
            Derived Data & Aggregates
            Ad Hoc Queries
            Are Constraints Important?
        An Overview of HEALTHSOUTH's Technical Environment for DW
        Schemas
          Star
          Snowflake
          Dimensions
          Fact Tables
        Tuning
          Bitmap Indexes
          Partitioning
          Materialized Views
        ETL
          Extraction
          Transformation
          Loading
        Datawarehouse Bus Architecture
          Conformed Dimensions
          Analysis between Fact Tables
        HEALTHSOUTH's Warehouse
          Incremental Aproach
          Headcount DW
          Claims DW
        Gotchas
          Documentation
          Politics
---

Hope to see you all there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Meeting Reminder: Thursday @ 11:30 at Entegreat University.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:34 PM
To: 'alliance@...'
Subject: FREE IOUG-A Trial Membership!

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Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

-----Original Message-----
From: Holleman Ron - GA [mailto:HOLLEMANR@...]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:41 PM
To: Hill, Jim
Subject: TUSC Event - Invitation

Jim, please feel free to pass this email along to any members of your group that might like to join us on the 9th of August.  They can RSVP directly to me at hollemanr@.....

 

Important Announcement

Rich Niemiec and Mike Ault to present at August GO Users Meeting

TUSC CEO Rich Niemiec and TUSC Senior Management Technical Consultant Mike Ault will be presenting at the Georgia Oracle Users meeting on August 9, 2001. Rich's presentation is titled "Oracle9i New Features of Interest to the DBA" and will be followed by Mike's presentation titled "Migrating to Oracle9i". This double punch of why you would want to switch to Oracle9i and then how to actually do it promises to deliver an information packed night to the folks who attend the meeting.

Rich Niemiec is an award winning speaker at virtually every conference where he presents, and he does a lot of them. Mike Ault is one of the top rated speakers at conferences such as IOUG-Alive, OOW and SEOUC. Both Rich and Mike have participated in the Oracle Regional University program where they have presented on database administration topics to packed houses all over the USA and Canada. Both Rich and Mike are also well known Oracle authors with several top selling Oracle books to their credit.

This event should be a mandatory attendance for anyone involved with database administration, upgrade or support with Oracle databases. The event will begin at 5:30 PM at the Westin, Atlanta North at Perimeter with complementary soft drinks and Hors Dí oeuvres. Rich will speak beginning at 6:00 PM followed by Mike. There will be a short question and answer period following the presentations.

 

About TUSC

The Oracle Experts Creating Business Value through Technology

TUSC delivers cost-effective business solutions in Oracle technology.TUSC has more than a decade of experience providing the best in Oracle consulting, product sales and training services. Within its Expert Business Solutions segment of the business, TUSC provides to its clients clear and recognizable benefits through the implementation of custom and packaged business solutions. In its Database Services segment, TUSC is recognized worldwide as "The Database Experts." This expertise is at the core of its Remote DBA services offering, which helps companies ensure that their key business systems are adequately protected and running efficiently. TUSC ís Training Services segment is supported by its own consultants  instructors who bring real-world experience to the classroom.

 

Best Regards,

 

Ron Holleman

Southeast Business Development Director

TUSC

Ph: 770-481-1935

Cell: 404-441-7258

Fax: 770-481-1936

 

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Saucedo [mailto:randy.saucedo@...]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 2:50 PM
Subject: CAOUG - Lunch Seminar

             CENTRAL ALABAMA ORACLE USER GROUP

               

                                                Best Practices

 

                  Lunch and Learn Seminar presentation Sponsored by

                                                                                       Quest Software

 

                                                     Wednesday August 15th, 2001  11:00pm -  1:00pm

                            Located at the Marriott Hotel off Highway 280  - 3590 Grandview Parkway  Birmingham  AL.  35243

 

                             

                                                                                        Topics Include

 

                    Providing quick and easy PL/SQL Development through administration- Speed up development of

                                                     SQL code through a powerful Graphical user interface

 

 

                                               Accelerate Oracle performance with  24 x 7 application insight

 

                                           Provide Graphical Real-Time diagnostics through Oracle databases

 

                                      How to Monitor Oracle databases, Network operating system activity 24 x 7

 

                                                       

                                                                 High Availability Dinner 5:00pm to 7:00pm

                                  Presented by Bill Brunt who is considered one of the leading experts in Oracle High Availability                 

 Shareplex is a Quest exclusive solution for high speed, log based replication of the Oracle RDBMS, OLTP Offloading, DR, Migrations, DW.  Many of our Shareplex customers have ensured highly available applications by using Shareplex to create a second, fully available copy of the production database for reporting (thus minimizing the performance impact on the production database).   These applications include mission critical ERPs environments such as Oracle Applications, Siebel, Peoplesoft, SAP, JD Edwards, i2, Ariba, and others.

 

 

                                                                         RSVP to    randy.saucedo@... 

                                                            

                                                              Please let us know which seminar you will be attending

                                                                               You are welcome to attend both

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Saucedo [mailto:randy.saucedo@...]
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: CAOUG-Lunch Seminar - UPDATE (Dinner at 6:30)

Just in case I haven't notified you already,

 

The Dinner has been moved from 5:00-7:00 to 6:30-8:30.

 

Please e-mail or call if you have any questions.

 

Best Regards,

 

Randy Saucedo  

Account Executive, Development Solutions

2000 W. Sam Houston Pkwy.

Houston, TX 77042

PH: (713) 576-4218

FX:  (713) 576-4298

www.quest.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             CENTRAL ALABAMA ORACLE USER GROUP

               

                                                Best Practices

 

                  Lunch and Learn Seminar presentation Sponsored by

                                                                                       Quest Software

 

                                                     Wednesday August 15th, 2001  11:00pm -  1:00pm

                            Located at the Marriott Hotel off Highway 280  - 3590 Grandview Parkway  Birmingham  AL.  35243

 

                             

                                                                                        Topics Include

 

                    Providing quick and easy PL/SQL Development through administration- Speed up development of

                                                     SQL code through a powerful Graphical user interface

 

 

                                               Accelerate Oracle performance with  24 x 7 application insight

 

                                           Provide Graphical Real-Time diagnostics through Oracle databases

 

                                      How to Monitor Oracle databases, Network operating system activity 24 x 7

 

                                                       

                                                                 High Availability Dinner 5:00pm to 7:00pm

                                  Presented by Bill Brunt who is considered one of the leading experts in Oracle High Availability                 

 Shareplex is a Quest exclusive solution for high speed, log based replication of the Oracle RDBMS, OLTP Offloading, DR, Migrations, DW.  Many of our Shareplex customers have ensured highly available applications by using Shareplex to create a second, fully available copy of the production database for reporting (thus minimizing the performance impact on the production database).   These applications include mission critical ERPs environments such as Oracle Applications, Siebel, Peoplesoft, SAP, JD Edwards, i2, Ariba, and others.

 

 

                                                                         RSVP to    randy.saucedo@... 

                                                            

                                                              Please let us know which seminar you will be attending

                                                                               You are welcome to attend both

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
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NOTE:  This month's Oracle User Group meeting will not be on the regularly scheduled date.

DATE:           Thursday, September 27
TIME:           11:30 am
TOPIC:          Oracle Portal and Discoverer 4i, an Excellent Partnership
PRESENTER:      DCC

DETAILS:        To be provided in a subsequent message.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oracle Portal and Discoverer 4i, an Excellent Partnership
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This presentation will discuss and demonstrate how Discoverer 4i
can be used for Analysis as a Portal component of 9i Application
Server Enterprise Edition.  These tools can be registered as an
external application in Oracle Portal and can be used to perform
financial and other business analysis in a Web-Based Portal
environment.

DCC will illustrate how reports, once generated in Discoverer 4i,
can be viewed by selected user groups within an organization in a
secure manner.  One administrator can maintain all reports in one
location. However, Portal's security layer will distribute an
organization's ability to view this information based on their
position or responsibility.

---

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Thanks again to Entegreat University for providing the facilities and
to DCC for providing our lunch.

NOTE: Please RSVP by noon on Tuesday if you plan on attending.  Just
        reply to this message to RSVP.

============================================
Oracle Portal and Discoverer 4i,
  an Excellent Partnership
- Presented by DCC -
============================================

DATE:                           Thursday, September 27
TIME:                           11:30 am
PLACE:                  Entegreat University
LUNCH:                          Provided by DCC
RSVP REQUIRED:          Yes

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
EnteGreat University is on the first floor of the 1900 building at International
Park, just off I-459 on Acton Road.
There is a hot link to a map at <<http://www.entegreat.com/eg_contactus.htm>>

----------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
----------------------------------------------------------
 
TOPIC:          Oracle Portal and Discoverer 4i, an Excellent Partnership
PRESENTER:      DCC

This presentation will discuss and demonstrate how Discoverer 4i
can be used for Analysis as a Portal component of 9i Application
Server Enterprise Edition.  These tools can be registered as an
external application in Oracle Portal and can be used to perform
financial and other business analysis in a Web-Based Portal
environment.

DCC will illustrate how reports, once generated in Discoverer 4i,
can be viewed by selected user groups within an organization in a
secure manner.  One administrator can maintain all reports in one
location. However, Portal's security layer will distribute an
organization's ability to view this information based on their
position or responsibility.

---

Hope to see you all there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems invite you to attend the
third in a series of FREE, interactive 60-minute web seminars on
October 2 to discuss the latest tools that can enable you to embrace
Java technology-based solutions within your development environment.

******************************************************
EVENT:
   "Breaking Free of the Proprietary Grip: Oracle and
   Sun enable developers to migrate applications to Java
   technology" Webinar

DATE:
   Tuesday, October 2, 2001

TIME:
   9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PT
   10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. MT
   11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT
   12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET

This event will feature 45 minutes of presentations followed by
approximately 15 minutes of LIVE Q&A!

REGISTRATION (Required):
http://www.viewinfo.net/migratenow
Or Call: 1-800-833-1439, X410

When registering for this event, please take a moment to review our
previous events in this series which have been made available at the
same URL.

*************************************************************
This session takes a close look at existing migration
offerings as well as new offerings with the Java
Migration Tool for COM and Oracle9iAS Migration Kit for
Application Server Page (ASP). Sun and Oracle together
have the solution that makes it easy to migrate your
platform, database, and middle-tier applications to Java.

If you have any questions before the event, call 1-888-283-9997,
ext. 410.

We appreciate your interest in this program, and look forward
to your participation.

ORACLE/SUN COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
http://www.viewinfo.net/migratenow

******************************************************

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Mark your calendars for the next Oracle User Group on October 18th at 11:30.
Network Appliance will be presenting on a topic mentioned below.  Details
will follow in a later message.

*Allow Oracle7 and Oracle8 databases to safely store
        data over NFS on Network Attached Storage
*Snapshots in an Oracle environment
*Mirroring and Recovery in a NAS Oracle environment
*Disaster Recovery in an Oracle Environment

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Thanks again to Entegreat University for providing the facilities and
to Network Appliance for providing our lunch and presentation.

NOTE: Please RSVP by noon on Monday if you plan on attending.  Just
        reply to this message to RSVP.

===================================================
Multi-Tiered Computing and Appliance Architecture
- Presented by Network Appliance -
===================================================

DATE:                   Thursday, October 18
TIME:                   11:30 am
PLACE:                  Entegreat University
LUNCH:                  Provided by Network Appliance
RSVP REQUIRED:          Yes

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
EnteGreat University is on the first floor of the 1900 building at International
Park, just off I-459 on Acton Road.
There is a hot link to a map at <<http://www.entegreat.com/eg_contactus.htm>>

----------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
----------------------------------------------------------
 
TOPIC:          Multi-Tiered Computing and Appliance Architecture
PRESENTER:      Tom Yarmas
                Database Specialist
                Network Appliance
 
Complexity is rampant in today's IT and storage infrastructures. In fact,
to be mission-critical is almost synonymous with adding multiple layers
of redundant hardware and software to make a system bulletproof.

As complexity grows, time to design, deploy and maintain any IT
infrastructure grows exponentially. This increased "time-to" in almost
everything leads to higher costs in both people and uptime lost due to
business downtime, whether planned or unplanned.

The presentation will analyze this complexity and ways to fight it that
are founded on the simplicity of appliance architecture.

---

Mark your calendars for this event.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

A former presenter for the CAOUG is sharing more of his code that he's recently developed.  Please see below.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillips, James [mailto:James.Phillips@...]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:26 PM
To: Hill, Jim
Subject: Hyperschema presentation new item

Mr. Hill,

        Some time ago I made a presentation to the CAOUG
on creating hypermaps of Oracle database schema, and
released the source code as an open source project at
http://hyperschema.sourceforge.net.

        I have now completed a PL/SQL code hypermap
generator, hypermapping SQL views, packages, procedures,
and functions to HTML source code listings and showing all
code locations where these are used. The internal "where
used" functionality also scans C++ and Java source files.
The URL is http://hypersql.sourceforge.net.

        Randy Phillips

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Corporation are confidential and intended solely for the
use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.
If you have received this email in error please notify the
sender.
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If you'd like to attend the Oracle User Group meeting on Thursday but haven't been able to RSVP, it's not too late.  Just RSVP by the end of business today if you plan on attending. Reply to this message to RSVP.

Details below...
Thanks.
Jim Hill
####

Thanks again to Entegreat University for providing the facilities and
to Network Appliance for providing our lunch and presentation.
===================================================
Multi-Tiered Computing and Appliance Architecture
- Presented by Network Appliance -
===================================================
DATE: Thursday, October 18
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: Entegreat University
LUNCH: Provided by Network Appliance
RSVP REQUIRED: Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
EnteGreat University is on the first floor of the 1900 building at International
Park, just off I-459 on Acton Road.
There is a hot link to a map at <<<http://www.entegreat.com/eg_contactus.htm>>>
----------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
----------------------------------------------------------

TOPIC: Multi-Tiered Computing and Appliance Architecture
PRESENTER: Tom Yarmas
Database Specialist
Network Appliance

Complexity is rampant in today's IT and storage infrastructures. In fact,
to be mission-critical is almost synonymous with adding multiple layers
of redundant hardware and software to make a system bulletproof.
As complexity grows, time to design, deploy and maintain any IT
infrastructure grows exponentially. This increased "time-to" in almost
everything leads to higher costs in both people and uptime lost due to
business downtime, whether planned or unplanned.
The presentation will analyze this complexity and ways to fight it that
are founded on the simplicity of appliance architecture.
---
Mark your calendars for this event.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Thanks again to Entegreat University for providing the facilities and
to Digidyne for providing our lunch and presentation.

NOTE: Please RSVP by noon on Wednesday if you plan on attending.  Just
        reply to this message to RSVP.

===================================================
Developing with idbSuite Container and Menu Objects
(application flexibility and ease of implementing
database driven web applications)
 
- Presented by Digidyne -
===================================================

DATE:                   Thursday, November 15
TIME:                   11:30 am
PLACE:                  Entegreat University
LUNCH:                  Provided by Digidyne
RSVP REQUIRED:          Yes

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
 
EnteGreat University is on the first floor of the 1900 building
at International Park, just off I-459 on Acton Road.
There is a hot link to a map at
<<http://www.entegreat.com/eg_contactus.htm>>

----------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
----------------------------------------------------------
 
TOPIC:          Developing with idbSuite Container and Menu Objects
PRESENTER:      Bill Wood
                Director of Systems Engineering/Developer of the idbSuite
                Digidyne, Inc.

 
Internet based software offers enterprises the flexibility of delivering
business applications without the difficult configuration management
normally introduced by client server installations.  Even distributed
client server can have configuration obstacles. While the delivery of
the application through the Internet relieves the client configuration
problem, the engineering of an Internet application introduces obstacles
that are not normally a concern in client server.  idbSuite is designed to
approach many of these challenges: such as consistent appearance, behavior
and navigation; security; and transaction consistency.  idbSuite's Container
and Menu Objects are designed to allow the developer to focus on data
handling and security by dynamically rendering the layout, HTML and
JavaScript to the browser.  These objects give your application a cohesive
and intuitive nature that users quickly become familiar and comfortable
with.  Allowing overloading through object oriented techniques, idbSuite's
Container and Menu Objects easily implement multiple level security and
data access.   Changing field and button names, hiding fields and buttons
and populating dependent fields through a SQL query are a few examples
that assist developers in accomplishing business rules.  The focus of this
presentation is to show the flexibility of the idbSuite Container and Menu
Objects and the ease of implementing database driven web applications with
idbSuite.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Presenter Background/Bio
-----------------------------------------------------------

Bill is a native of Mobile, Alabama.  He began his career in Information
Systems as an Oracle Database Analyst designing and developing Oracle based
applications for public finance, public works and public safety departments
in the late 1980's.  In the early 1990's, when client server was the latest
technology, Bill became one of the leading analysts in the GMIS (Government
Management Information Systems) organization by implementing police
communication and records management systems in an object oriented, client
server architecture.   Continuing to work with public safety applications as
a technical consultant, Bill began focusing on the Internet architecture for
enterprise applications.  With the Oracle database now specifically built for
the Internet and the Oracle Application Server's powerful capabilities, the
migration of client server applications to the Internet became a personal
challenge.  This challenge produced a variety of products and utilities in
use now by Armed Forces Agencies, major public utilities and law enforcement
applications.  "idbSuite" was engineered from all of these products as a
browser based enterprise development tool.  Bill is honored as an Oracle
Master in two disciplines, System Analysis and Design and Application
Development with a concentration on web applications.  He has presented at
national and local information technology conferences on client server and
Internet technologies.  Bill can be contacted at the email address
bwood@....

---

Hope to see you all there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

This should be an excellent presentation by Bill Wood, the original developer of idbSuite and current Director of Systems Engineering for Digidyne.  RSVP today if you plan to attend.

###
----------- Original Announcement --------------
Thanks again to Entegreat University for providing the facilities and
to Digidyne for providing our lunch and presentation.
NOTE: Please RSVP by noon on Wednesday if you plan on attending. Just
reply to this message to RSVP.
===================================================
Developing with idbSuite Container and Menu Objects
(application flexibility and ease of implementing
database driven web applications)

- Presented by Digidyne -
===================================================
DATE: Thursday, November 15
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: Entegreat University
LUNCH: Provided by Digidyne
RSVP REQUIRED: Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------

EnteGreat University is on the first floor of the 1900 building
at International Park, just off I-459 on Acton Road.
There is a hot link to a map at
<<<http://www.entegreat.com/eg_contactus.htm>>>
----------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
----------------------------------------------------------

TOPIC: Developing with idbSuite Container and Menu Objects
PRESENTER: Bill Wood
Director of Systems Engineering/Developer of the idbSuite
Digidyne, Inc.

Internet based software offers enterprises the flexibility of delivering
business applications without the difficult configuration management
normally introduced by client server installations. Even distributed
client server can have configuration obstacles. While the delivery of
the application through the Internet relieves the client configuration
problem, the engineering of an Internet application introduces obstacles
that are not normally a concern in client server. idbSuite is designed to
approach many of these challenges: such as consistent appearance, behavior
and navigation; security; and transaction consistency. idbSuite's Container
and Menu Objects are designed to allow the developer to focus on data
handling and security by dynamically rendering the layout, HTML and
JavaScript to the browser. These objects give your application a cohesive
and intuitive nature that users quickly become familiar and comfortable
with. Allowing overloading through object oriented techniques, idbSuite's
Container and Menu Objects easily implement multiple level security and
data access. Changing field and button names, hiding fields and buttons
and populating dependent fields through a SQL query are a few examples
that assist developers in accomplishing business rules. The focus of this
presentation is to show the flexibility of the idbSuite Container and Menu
Objects and the ease of implementing database driven web applications with
idbSuite.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Presenter Background/Bio
-----------------------------------------------------------
Bill is a native of Mobile, Alabama. He began his career in Information
Systems as an Oracle Database Analyst designing and developing Oracle based
applications for public finance, public works and public safety departments
in the late 1980's. In the early 1990's, when client server was the latest
technology, Bill became one of the leading analysts in the GMIS (Government
Management Information Systems) organization by implementing police
communication and records management systems in an object oriented, client
server architecture. Continuing to work with public safety applications as
a technical consultant, Bill began focusing on the Internet architecture for
enterprise applications. With the Oracle database now specifically built for
the Internet and the Oracle Application Server's powerful capabilities, the
migration of client server applications to the Internet became a personal
challenge. This challenge produced a variety of products and utilities in
use now by Armed Forces Agencies, major public utilities and law enforcement
applications. "idbSuite" was engineered from all of these products as a
browser based enterprise development tool. Bill is honored as an Oracle
Master in two disciplines, System Analysis and Design and Application
Development with a concentration on web applications. He has presented at
national and local information technology conferences on client server and
Internet technologies. Bill can be contacted at the email address
bwood@....
---
Hope to see you all there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

-----Original Message-----
From: regina.midkiff [mailto:regina.midkiff@...]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 3:00 PM
To: Hill, Jim
Subject: OpenWorld and IOUG
Importance: High

Hi,

As your Corporate liaison to Oracle, I would like to take a moment to remind you of Oracle OpenWorld next week in San Francisco.  Please distribute this message to the Central Alabama OUG membership accordingly.  I hope you are able to join us either in person or online.  If I can be of any assistance, please contact me.

Regards,
Jeannie Midkiff
 

Subject: OpenWorld and IOUG

Oracle OpenWorld
Dec. 2-7, 2001
Moscone Center
San Francisco
Register Today!
http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=668068&amp;amp;amp;Act=125

What's Especially Great About This Year's OpenWorld?

Keynotes:
Amazing leaders of our industry...All under one roof during OpenWorld.

Starting lineup includes such heavy hitters as: Larry Ellison, Craig Barrett, Michael Capellas, Scott McNealy, Michael Ruettgers, and special appearances by Marc Andreessen, Gary Bloom, Rob Glaser--and a very special appearance by NBC's Nightly News anchor, Tom Brokaw. Can you get any better than this?
For details and to register,
http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=668068&amp;amp;amp;Act=125

Oracle 9i:.
Oracle's benchmark-breaking release of its latest database and application server. Get a proper introduction to the industry's only complete and integrated software infrastructure. From keynotes and Meet the Guru panels to Oracle9i Demos and Hands-on Sessions, OpenWorld means full access to Oracle9i information. For Oracle9i Session information and to register, click here -
http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=668068&amp;amp;amp;Act=125

Oracle's Chief Architects and Engineers:
Unprecedented access to Oracle's brain trust. Roger Bamford, Howard Cohen, Bill Dwight, Ken Jacobs, Thomas Kurian, Bill Maimone, Andy Mendelsohn, Steve Muench, Marco Tilli--All are Oracle Gurus and will be at OpenWorld to meet with attendees.
See them in action at their "Meet the Gurus" panel session each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings, following the Oracle9i Wizards session at 8:30 a.m. Or catch them in their hour interview sessions in the Oracle9i Guru Lounge located in the
Oracle9i DEMOgrounds.

An Exhibition Hall That'll Make Your Jaw Drop:
Hundreds of industry leaders and Oracle partners, an unbelievable Oracle9i DEMOgrounds, Oracle Racing Pavilion, Oracle9i Partner Pavilion, iSpy9i Exhibition Hall Game, Guru Lounge....And there's always more.

IOUG Forum:
Complete your Oracle OpenWorld experience with a day of education created for users by users. Participate in the IOUG FORUM:

Seeing the Big Picture presented by the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) on Friday, December 7.

Please see schedule for December 7 below or visit
http://oracle.com/openworld/us/conference/index.html?ioug.html
for more info.

7:30am - 8:30am - Continental Breakfast
8:30am - 9:30am - Opening Keynote Presentation: Rich Niemiec, TUSC and
                                      Matt Swann, Amazon.com
9:45am - 10:45am - Concurrent User Expert Panels:
                                      Database Administration
                                      Architecture and Infrastructure
                                      Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
                                      Application Server Technologies
                                      eBusiness and Application Development

11:00am-12:00pm - Closing General Session "Oracles of Oracle"
                                  Moderator: Rich Niemiec, TUSC
                                  Ian Abramson, Data Visions, Inc.
                                  Bill Burke, i2 Technologies, Inc.
                                  Ari Kaplan, Expand Beyond Corporation
                                  Roger Schrag, Database Specialists, Inc.
                                  Matt Swann, Amazon.com
                                  Joe Trezzo, TUSC

**** And, as always, Oracle knows how to match its top-notch conference content with leading music industry entertainers. Keep your clothes on as The Barenaked Ladies take
the stage for a very special performance. These Canadian boys know how to put on a show.

To register for OpenWorld, click here
http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=668068&amp;amp;amp;Act=125

Or if you can't go to OpenWorld San Francisco - OpenWorld Online 2001 brings it to your desktop. 33 hours of live Webcasts, 18 educational sessions, 13 interactive chat sessions with Oracle gurus, plus a live Web camera showcasing the Exhibition Hall.
Register now at:
http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=1073470&amp;amp;amp;Act=53
 
 

The next Central Alabama Oracle User Group will be on Thursday, January 17th at 11:30 am.  Please mark your calendars.

Meeting details will follow in a later message.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

see below...

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

-----Original Message-----
From: SouthEastern Oracle Users Conference [mailto:seouc@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:25 PM
To: Hill, Jim
Subject: SEOUC 2002 - The Fast Track to Oracle

Dear JIM,

Oracle users are racing back to Charlotte, North Carolina for SEOUC 2002!

Join us February 21 - 22 at the Renaissance Charlotte Suites Hotel for
an unbeatable schedule of technical presentations, well-known speakers,
and networking events.  Learn about 9iAS Portal and Web Toolkit, 9iAS Business
Intelligence, 9iAS Developer and JDeveloper, Oracle Applications, Oracle
Designer and much more!  With access to such a wide array of technical
information, you are sure to jumpstart your Oracle knowledge.
 
Don't miss your chance to jump on the fast track to Oracle - register today
for SEOUC 2002!  And, if you do so by January 21, 2002, you will save $70!
Just visit our Web site at http://www.seouc.org to register online today!

For more information, contact Lisa Lancella via e-mail at lisa@...
or call (910) 253-8686.

Our next Central Alabama Oracle User Group meeting will be on Thursday, January 17th at 11:30 am.

===================================
***ALERT - Immediate Need!!!
===================================

Compaq has a great presentation prepared for us, but we need to find a location.  If you have a meeting
room that will hold 40 people that's available on Thursday, please contact Nancy Gilmore at the
address below:

        nancy.gilmore@...
        mailto:nancy.gilmore@...

========================================
Presentation Description
Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters
========================================

Oracle recently announced the next level in clustered databases,
with 9i Real Application Clusters.  We will discuss its major advances
over Oracle Parallel Server, the capabilities of Real Application
Clusters in comparison with other database servers, and the technology
behind the scenes that makes it all work.  This will be a high level
presentation, but we can dive down in response to your questions.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Did you know that the CAOUG supports 2 other lists?
       
        caoug-discuss           For Oracle related discussions/help
        caoug-jobs              For open positions and resumes

In fact I just added a listing for a Unix Administrator to caoug-jobs today.  If you'd like to be on either list, just let me know and I'll be happy to add you.

Thanks.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Thank you to Infinity Insurance for providing the facilities, to
DataCrest/Walker Haddock for our lunch and to Compaq for the
presentation.
 
NOTE: Please RSVP by the end of the day on Friday if you plan on
attending. Just reply to this message to RSVP.

========================================================
Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters

-Presented by Compaq and DataCrest-
========================================================

DATE: Thursday, January 17th
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: Infinity Insurance
LUNCH: Provided by DataCrest
RSVP REQUIRED: Yes

---------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
---------------------------------------------------------

Oracle recently announced the next level in clustered databases,
with 9i Real Application Clusters.  We will discuss its major advances
over Oracle Parallel Server, the capabilities of Real Application
Clusters in comparison with other database servers, and the technology
behind the scenes that makes it all work.  This will be a high level
presentation, but we can dive down in response to your questions.

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------

Infinity Insurance is located at 2204 Lakeshore Dr. Birmingham, AL
35209.  This is the Lakeshore Park Plaza building.

Here's a link to a Yahoo! Map.

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=2204+Lakeshore+Drive&csz=35209&Country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map

From 65:  Get on Lakeshore Drive and head East, past Samford University
and the Healthsouth rehabilitation facility.  Infinity will be on your
right, directly across from the First Baptist Church of Birmingham,
before you cross under 31.

From 31:  Get off on Lakeshore Drive, heading West.  Infinity will be on
your left, directly across from the First Baptist Church of Birmingham,
before you pass the Healthsouth rehabilitation facility.

From 280:  Get off on Lakeshore Drive, and head West, past Brookwood
Village.  Infinity will be on your left, directly across from the First
Baptist Church of Birmingham, after you cross under 31 but before the
Healthsouth rehabilitation facility.

There are two entrances to our building - an East and West Lobby.  You
will want to use the West Lobby entrance, and take the elevator to the
second floor.  Get off the elevator, and the meeting room will be on
your right.

Brian McGraw stresses that you arrive early for a seat.  : )

---

We hope to see you there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

NOTE: The Location for the meeting has changed.

We owe Tim Robinson at El Paso a big thank you for finding us a facility at the last minute.  Thanks Tim.
See details below...
###

Thank you to El Paso for providing the facilities, to
DataCrest/Walker Haddock for our lunch and to Compaq for the
presentation.
 
NOTE: Please RSVP by the end of the day on Monday if you plan on
attending. Just reply to this message to RSVP.

========================================================
Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters

-Presented by Compaq and DataCrest-
========================================================

DATE: Thursday, January 17th
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: El Paso Corporation
LUNCH: Provided by DataCrest
RSVP REQUIRED: Yes

---------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
---------------------------------------------------------

Oracle recently announced the next level in clustered databases,
with 9i Real Application Clusters.  We will discuss its major advances
over Oracle Parallel Server, the capabilities of Real Application
Clusters in comparison with other database servers, and the technology
behind the scenes that makes it all work.  This will be a high level
presentation, but we can dive down in response to your questions.

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------

El Paso Corporation
1900 5th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35202-2563

The procedure when you get to the building is to go to the 20th floor and
sign in.  You will be directed to the 29th floor and we'll have a sign
there.

There will be some limited parking available in the deck attached to the
building (enter on 19th street). Around lunch time it may be enough. There's
plenty of parking in the BPA deck #7 at the corner of 18th Street and 5th
Ave (enter on 17th street or 18th street).

---

We hope to see you there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

===============================
Meeting Reminder
===============================

NOTE: The Location for the meeting has changed.
We owe Tim Robinson at El Paso a big thank you for finding us a facility at the last minute. Thanks Tim.
See details below...
###
Thank you to El Paso for providing the facilities, to
DataCrest/Walker Haddock for our lunch and to Compaq for the
presentation.

NOTE: Please RSVP by the end of the day on Monday if you plan on
attending. Just reply to this message to RSVP.

========================================================
Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters
-Presented by Compaq and DataCrest-
========================================================
DATE: Thursday, January 17th
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: El Paso Corporation
LUNCH: Provided by DataCrest
RSVP REQUIRED: Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
---------------------------------------------------------
Oracle recently announced the next level in clustered databases,
with 9i Real Application Clusters. We will discuss its major advances
over Oracle Parallel Server, the capabilities of Real Application
Clusters in comparison with other database servers, and the technology
behind the scenes that makes it all work. This will be a high level
presentation, but we can dive down in response to your questions.

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
El Paso Corporation
1900 5th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35202-2563
The procedure when you get to the building is to go to the 20th floor and
sign in. You will be directed to the 29th floor and we'll have a sign
there.
There will be some limited parking available in the deck attached to the
building (enter on 19th street). Around lunch time it may be enough. There's
plenty of parking in the BPA deck #7 at the corner of 18th Street and 5th
Ave (enter on 17th street or 18th street).
---
We hope to see you there.
Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

The Oracle User Group is in need of a meeting facility on February 21 from 11am - 2pm for Rick Goudeau's Log Miner presentation.  Please reply if you have a possible location.

Thanks.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Thank you to Tim Robinson and El Paso for providing the facilities and
to Rick Goudeau of Clearwinds Technologies for doing the presentation.

Please RSVP if you plan on attending. Just reply to this message
to RSVP.

NOTE: This is a bring your own lunch meeting.  We'll have several door
prizes, including proceedings CD's from the IOUG-A Live 2001.

========================================================
Oracle LogMiner
-Presented by Rick Goudeau of Clearwinds Technologies-
========================================================
DATE: Thursday, February 21st
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: El Paso Corporation
LUNCH: Bring you own, including drink
        (food court in the Harbert Center)
RSVP REQUIRED: Yes

---------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
---------------------------------------------------------
Oracle LogMiner

LogMiner is an Oracle 8.1 new feature. It allows you to format and
display data from the archive redo logs. This is useful in tracking
data changes, or planning a point in time recovery, and perhaps
doing some data trend analysis.  Logminer consists a series of Pl/Sql
procedures, and v$sql views to extract and display log data.

Rick Goudeau is an Oracle database consultant with Clearwinds
Technologies.  Rick has been a dba for more years than he would like
to remember, and has been using Oracle in a variety of environments
since 1990 starting with release 6.0. Clearwinds provides local database,
systems engineering, networking, and security services. 

---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
El Paso Corporation
1900 5th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35202-2563
The procedure when you get to the building is to go to the 20th floor and
sign in. You will be directed to the 29th floor and we'll have a sign
there.

There will be some limited parking available in the deck attached to the
building (enter on 19th street). Around lunch time it may be enough. There's
plenty of parking in the BPA deck #7 at the corner of 18th Street and 5th
Ave (enter on 17th street or 18th street).

---
We hope to see you there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

MEETING REMINDER:
#####################
Thank you to Tim Robinson and El Paso for providing the facilities and
to Rick Goudeau of Clearwinds Technologies for doing the presentation.
Please RSVP if you plan on attending. Just reply to this message
to RSVP.
NOTE: This is a bring your own lunch meeting. We'll have several door
prizes, including proceedings CD's from the IOUG-A Live 2001.
========================================================
Oracle LogMiner
-Presented by Rick Goudeau of Clearwinds Technologies-
========================================================
DATE: Thursday, February 21st
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: El Paso Corporation
LUNCH: Bring you own, including drink
(food court in the Harbert Center)
RSVP REQUIRED: Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
---------------------------------------------------------
Oracle LogMiner
LogMiner is an Oracle 8.1 new feature. It allows you to format and
display data from the archive redo logs. This is useful in tracking
data changes, or planning a point in time recovery, and perhaps
doing some data trend analysis. Logminer consists a series of Pl/Sql
procedures, and v$sql views to extract and display log data.
Rick Goudeau is an Oracle database consultant with Clearwinds
Technologies. Rick has been a dba for more years than he would like
to remember, and has been using Oracle in a variety of environments
since 1990 starting with release 6.0. Clearwinds provides local database,
systems engineering, networking, and security services.
---------------------------------------------------------
DIRECTIONS
---------------------------------------------------------
El Paso Corporation
1900 5th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35202-2563
The procedure when you get to the building is to go to the 20th floor and
sign in. You will be directed to the 29th floor and we'll have a sign
there.
There will be some limited parking available in the deck attached to the
building (enter on 19th street). Around lunch time it may be enough. There's
plenty of parking in the BPA deck #7 at the corner of 18th Street and 5th
Ave (enter on 17th street or 18th street).
---

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
caoug-announce group:

Please check the top 3 topics below
you'd like to see an Oracle User Group
presentation on:

   o SQL 99 Standards
   o Globalization (NLS)
   o External Tables
   o Flash Back
   o Undo/Rollback
   o RMAN
   o Standby Database
   o Multiblock Sizes
   o Locally Managed Tablespaces
   o Transportable Tablespaces
   o Certification Programs
   o Oracle 9i OCA (Associate)
   o Space Management
   o Segment Enhancement
   o Tuning
   o RAC Configuration
   o Web-enabled Discoveror
   o Replication/Materialized Views


To vote, please visit the following web page:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/caoug-announce/polls

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups
web site listed above.

Thanks!

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

-----Original Message-----
From: Freeman, Katie [mailto:kate_freeman@...]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:53 AM
To: IOUG
Subject: Alliance Member Special Offer-- Save $300 on IOUG Live! 2002

Dear Alliance Member,

We want you at IOUG Live!-- the best Oracle conference of the year-- so we
are offering you an unbelievable $300 (25% off) discount since you are an
alliance member.  You must sign up before March 15, 2002 to receive this low
price.

IOUG Live!, April 14-18 in San Diego, is THE Education Conference for Oracle
Users by Oracle Users. There are over 290 technical sessions in 7 focus
areas, all designed to save you countless hours and dollars on the job!
Please visit www.ioug.org/live2002 for more information, to view abstracts,
and register for the conference.

$900: Full conference price for members with this offer (normally $1200)
$985: Full conference Price in this offer for non-members (normally $1285)

Details:  To qualify, you must register by March 15 online at
www.ioug.org/live2002, or by phone at 1-312-396-2150 (for the first $200
off).  To receive your additional $100 refund, you must bring a copy of this
email onsite to the conference and present it to the IOUG HQ in Room 28B in
the San Diego Convention Center. The email must be addressed to
you-- this offer is non-transferable.  The IOUG will provide you with a $100
refund after Live!

I'll see you there,
Rich Niemiec
President, IOUG