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Did you know that our Oracle user group can get books
for you to review and keep?  If your book budget is
running short, this is a good way to earn the books
you need.

Please let me know if you have a book that you'd like
to earn by doing a review.  It doesn't matter who the
publisher is or the technology related topic, just let
me know what your interested in and I'll try to get
it.

I've included a couple of links below that will help
you as you write your reviews.

Peace,
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> to:
> http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html
>
>
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> for your
> group? Ask your group leader for more information.
>
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This event will serve as the Oracle User Group meeting
for this month.  Please plan on attending if you can.

Jim

--- Curtis Palmer <curtis_palmer@...> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:37:04 -0000
> From: "Curtis Palmer" <curtis_palmer@...>
> To: caoug-announce-owner@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Charles Phillips, president of Oracle
> coming to Birmingham 9/17/04
>
> Charles Phillips is confirmed for Friday morning,
> September 17th for
> an event open to the public.  I haven't heard if
> your user group
> meeting is a 'go' for the 16th or not, but want to
> extend an
> invitation to attend the Birmingham Venture Club
> event on Friday.
>
> Full details are available in this morning's
> TechBirmingham e-
> newsletter --- see
>
http://www.techbirmingham.com/prodigitools/iNewsletter/View_Newsletter
> .asp?id=44
>
> Curtis V Palmer
> TechBirmingham
> curtis (at) techbirmingham (dot) com
>
>
>




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Hurricane Ivan Douses Event
but won't dampen our Entrepreneurial Spirit!

The speaking engagement featuring ORACLE president Charles Phillips,
scheduled by the Birmingham Venture Club for this coming Friday,
September 17, HAS BEEN POSTPONED due to the expected torrential
hurricane conditions on Thursday and Friday this week.  There are
also no hotel rooms in Birmingham for our traveling guests due to
evacuees from the Gulf coast seeking inland shelter in our region.

We will make an updated posting as soon as the Birmingham Venture
Club has set a new date for the event.

If you have already prepaid for your attendance, please contact
Kellie Harper at the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce --
205.241.8110 or kharper@... -- to arrange for a
refund.





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--- Brian O'Donnell <brian.odonnell@...>
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:31:20 -0500
> From: "Brian O'Donnell"
> <brian.odonnell@...>
> To: "Jim  Hill" <jfordhill@...>
> Subject: VERITAS Webcast for Oracle User Groups
>
> Jim ,
>
> I wanted to send you some information about an
> upcoming webcast we have on VERITAS performance
> management tools for Oracle.  I understand that you
> are involved with your local Oracle Users Group, and
> I wanted to extend an invitation.  The webcast is
> going to showcase VERITAS i3 for Oracle.  Doug
> Stasko, a VERITAS Product Engineer, is going to
> provide an overview of the product, as well as walk
> through a live demo of the software.
>
> VERITAS i3 for Oracle is an application performance
> management solution that helps you improve end user
> response time by proactively monitoring, analyzing,
> and tuning your Oracle environment. The software
> provides a complete view of application performance
> by capturing, measuring, and correlating performance
> metrics from each supporting tier of your
> Oracle-based custom applications infrastructure (web
> server, 9iAS, application server, database, and
> storage). When problems are detected, VERITAS i3
> helps you pinpoint the cause and identify the most
> effective course of action. Innovative SmarTune
> technology helps you quickly solve the problem and
> restore your systems back to peak performance.
>
> We have met with/presented to several Oracle User
> Groups in the past, and this type of webcast
> typically serves as a good introduction to the
> capabilities and functionality of the software.  I
> have included a link to the invitation:
>
http://www.carahsoft.com/veritas/Veritas02/Veritas02.html
> .  Would you be able to pass this invitation on to
> the other members of your User Group?  Please feel
> free to contact me with any questions, or if you
> would like additional information on the VERITAS
> performance management software.
>
>
> Thanks again, and I hope you are able to join us.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Brian O'Donnell
> Account Manager
> Carahsoft Technology Corp.
> 12030 Sunrise Valley Drive
> Suite 250
> Reston, VA 20191
>
> 703-871-8506 Direct
> 703-871-8500 Main
> 703-871-8505 Fax
> 240-604-7449 Cell
>
> brian.odonnell@...
> www.carahsoft.com/veritas
>
>
>
>


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openings?  Just today I posted a job opening for a
Oracle Application DBA/Developer supporting a
Bellsouth contract.

If you're interested in subscribing, you can go to
www.caoug.org and click on "Mailing Lists" on the
left-hand menu.

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Hello,

     Due to the great success from the first set of
classes in Huntsville, we are looking at adding the
five classes below to the schedule for this summer if
we get enough demand.  Please contact me if you or
anyone you know is interested in attending these
classes this summer (June- Aug).   If we get enough
demand, we will put the classes on the schedule.  All
input and feedback is appreciated.  Please feel free
to forward this to anyone else that might be looking
for local Oracle Training.  Thank you.


> - Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I (5
days) -

> - Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop II (5
days) -

> - Oracle Database 10g: New Features for
Administrators (5 days) -

> - Oracle Application Server 10g: Administration I (5
days) -

> - Oracle Application Server 10g: Administration II
((5 days)

Sincerely,

Shamil Salah
Oracle Education
Education Sales Representative
shamil.salah@...
(905)366-4064 Direct
(703)364-1354 (Fax)





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The CAOUG leadership group is getting ready to meet to
do some brain storming about the activities for our
group for the next several months.  If you have ideas
that you'd like to see implemented, please feel free
to send me an email and we'll discuss them at our next
leadership meeting.

Also, if you are interested in working as part of the
leadership team to serve the user group, please send
me an email.

Thanks.
Jim Hill

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If you are interested in learning more about PL/SQL
(or if you'd like to go on a business related trip to
the Chicago are) please read on...

--- "PLSQL SQL (E-mail)"
<robyn@...> wrote:

> From: "PLSQL SQL \(E-mail\)"
> <robyn@...>
> To: <jfordhill@...>
> CC: <brian.mcgrawr@...>
> Subject: Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the
> publication of Oracle PL/SQL Programming (OPP2005)
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:15:12 -0400
>
> Dear Jim and Brian:
>
> On November 2 and 3, 2005, Steven Feuerstein will
> celebrate the 10th
> anniversary of the publication of his now-classic
> Oracle PL/SQL Programming
> by holding a two-day PL/SQL-focused conference:
> Oracle PL/SQL Programming
> (OPP2005), in Rosemont, Illinois (Chicago area).
> Given his popularity with
> Oracle user groups around the world, I am writing to
> ask you to inform your
> members of the event.
>
> OPP2005 is the first of its kind and a unique
> opportunity to learn from some
> of the most respected and experienced PL/SQL experts
> in the world. For
> individuals who write PL/SQL programs, this is a
> must-attend event.
> Highlights include:
> * Keynote presentation by Steven Feuerstein;
> * Presentations from Steven Feuerstein, Bryn
> Llewellyn (PL/SQL Product
> Manager), and Marcel Kratochvil (winner of Oracle
> Magazine 2004 PL/SQL
> Developer of the Year);
> * In-depth trainings in three tracks:
> o "In-Depth PL/SQL" by Steven Feuerstein: Learn best
> practices and features
> of Oracle PL/SQL to help you make the most of the
> language.
> o "Developing Multimedia Applications for the
> Internet" by Marcel
> Kratochvil: Attend three sessions that will show you
> how to use PL/SQL to
> handle the most complex requirements.
> o "Oracle PL/SQL-The View from Redwood Shores" by
> Bryn Llewellyn: Hear
> directly from the PL/SQL Product Manager about the
> latest version of Oracle
> and its capabilities.
> All participants will receive a signed copy of the
> 4th edition of Oracle
> PL/SQL Programming, to be published in September
> 2005 and covering all
> versions of PL/SQL, including Oracle Database 10g
> Release 2.
>
> For more detailed information regarding this
> conference, please visit
> www.oracleplsqlprogramming.com/opp2005.
>
> Steven Feuerstein is a renowned author and one of
> the world's leading
> experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language. He has
> published nine books on the
> subject (O'Reilly Media) and has been honored with
> several prestigious
> awards, most recently the Oracle Development Tools
> User Group (ODTUG)
> Editor's Choice Award for recognition of exceptional
> technical content and
> visual presentation in his 2005 conference paper,
> Programming Humility:
> Dealing with the Reality of Errors, which he
> recently presented to a full
> house at the ODTUG NOW! 2005 conference.  He also
> received the Best
> Presentation Award for Gee Whiz: New PL/SQL Toys in
> Oracle 10g, given at
> last year's ODTUG conference.
>
> Steven has long been a strong supporter of Oracle
> user groups. He would like
> to make sure that they are both represented at, and
> benefit from OPP2005. To
> that end, he will provide a 1.5 hour webinar at no
> cost to the three Oracle
> user groups that have the highest number of
> registrants at OPP2005.
>
> We hope that you will include information about this
> exciting PL/SQL
> conference on your web site and also inform your
> members about OPP2005.
> Steven will be happy to make articles and other
> resources available for your
> membership newsletters to keep them better informed
> about happenings in the
> PL/SQL world.
>
>
> Please contact me if you would like your Oracle user
> group to participate in
> free Webinar program and/or would like to take
> advantage of Steven's
> resources.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robyn Drew
>
>
>
>
>
>
>




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Please send me your top 2 topics you'd like to see
addressed in an upcomming Oracle user group event.
We're working on planning our meetings for the next
few months and we want to make sure we focus on the
topics you need most.

Topics can come from several different areas: Oracle
development issues, Oracle apps, database topics,
navigating the Oracle business relationship, etc.

Thanks.
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RSVP's Required (count for lunch needed, RSVP by
replying to this message):

On Thursday, August 18th at 11:30 Kenny Smith of
Cnetics will be doing a live "Get on the Grid"
presention for the Central Alabama Oracle User Group.
Lunch will be provided.

We will be meeting at the Energen Conference Center at
the Energen headquarters on 6th Ave. North and Richard
Arrington Blvd.  Parking is provided on the top level
of the Energen parking deck which is adjacent to the
building.

I've included a description of the presentation that
Cnetics provided.  You can see a picture of the
hardware if you follow the link.

Our "Get on the Grid" presentation discusses and
demonstrates a fully configured, portable Oracle 10g
RAC system running on HP equipment. Our portable
systems called "Test tRACks" are multi-bootable on
Linux, Windows and HP-UX depending on the hardware
configuration. (For more information on our portable
Oracle units, visit
http://www.cnetics.com/RACoverview.shtml.)

How the presentation works:

Our presentation gives attendees an opportunity to
learn about and get hands-on with 10g RAC. We will
bring a portable Real Application Cluster system with
a wireless access point. We describe the hardware and
software configuration and then demonstrate important
RAC features such as transaction application failover,
load balancing, and scalability on the live system. We
then allow attendees to login via their laptops and
"play" with Linux, Windows, Oracle, clustered file
systems & clustered servers.

We've made this presentation at the Georgia Oracle
User Group Conference and the International Oracle
User Group Conference. We've also presented
"Get on the Grid" to groups such the Columbus Linux
Users Group, the Atlanta Unix Users Group and the East
Tennessee Oracle Users Group with great success.

You can also read Kenny's professional bio at
http://www.cnetics.com/bios.shtml.

++

I think this will be a great presentation and I hope
to see you all there.  You can just reply to this
message to RSVP.

Regards,
Jim Hill



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

Please click each topic you'd like to see presented at an
upcoming Oracle user group event.

   o HTML DB
   o RAC
   o ASM
   o Virtual Private Database
   o Flashback Technology
   o Migrating from ONames or tnsnames to 10g OID
   o Warehouse Builder
   o DataGuard - logical standby, physical standby
   o Best Practices for Table Creation
   o Migrating your skills to areas of high demand


To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/caoug-announce/surveys?id=1920786

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!

I'm attaching a file that contains email addresses
that are on our CAOUG announcements mailing list, but
they are now bouncing.  If you recognize any of these
and have a more recent address, please send it my way.
  I'll send out an invitation to the new address and
the person will have an opportunity to re-subscribe if
they want.

Thanks.
Jim





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Please see attached announcement...

Note: forwarded message attached.


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Due to some necessary scheduling revisions, the next
Oracle user group has been moved from August 18th to
Wednesday, August 31st.  NOTE: If you sent an RSVP for
the 18th, please confirm that you will still be
attending on the 31st.  I apologize for any
inconvenience this will cause.

Please see the revised announcement below:


RSVP's Required (count for lunch needed, RSVP by
replying to this message):

On Wednesday, August 31st at 11:30 Kenny Smith of
Cnetics will be doing a live "Get on the Grid"
presention for the Central Alabama Oracle User Group.
Lunch will be provided.

We will be meeting at the Energen Conference Center at
the Energen headquarters on 6th Ave. North and Richard
Arrington Blvd. Parking is provided on the top level
of the Energen parking deck which is adjacent to the
building.

I've included a description of the presentation that
Cnetics provided. You can see a picture of the
hardware if you follow the link.

Our "Get on the Grid" presentation discusses and
demonstrates a fully configured, portable Oracle 10g
RAC system running on HP equipment. Our portable
systems called "Test tRACks" are multi-bootable on
Linux, Windows and HP-UX depending on the hardware
configuration. (For more information on our portable
Oracle units, visit
http://www.cnetics.com/RACoverview.shtml.)

How the presentation works:

Our presentation gives attendees an opportunity to
learn about and get hands-on with 10g RAC. We will
bring a portable Real Application Cluster system with
a wireless access point. We describe the hardware and
software configuration and then demonstrate important
RAC features such as transaction application failover,
load balancing, and scalability on the live system. We
then allow attendees to login via their laptops and
"play" with Linux, Windows, Oracle, clustered file
systems & clustered servers.

We've made this presentation at the Georgia Oracle
User Group Conference and the International Oracle
User Group Conference. We've also presented
"Get on the Grid" to groups such the Columbus Linux
Users Group, the Atlanta Unix Users Group and the East
Tennessee Oracle Users Group with great success.

You can also read Kenny's professional bio at
http://www.cnetics.com/bios.shtml.

++

I think this will be a great presentation and I hope
to see you all there. You can just reply to this
message to RSVP.

Regards,
Jim Hill


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CramSession's exam preparation guides are now free.
Here's a link:

http://www.cramsession.com/certifications/products/list-study-guides.asp?vendor_\
id=18&view_type=active&vendor_name=Oracle

I hope this is useful.

Jim

P.S.  By the way, I haven't used these so I can't say
anything about them, pro or con.

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The following caoug-announce poll is now closed.  Here are the
final results:


POLL QUESTION: Please click the top 3 topics you'd like to see presented at
an upcoming Oracle user group event.

CHOICES AND RESULTS
- HTML DB, 2 votes, 15.38%
- RAC, 1 votes, 7.69%
- ASM, 2 votes, 15.38%
- Virtual Private Database, 1 votes, 7.69%
- Flashback Technology, 1 votes, 7.69%
- Migrating from ONames or tnsnames to 10g OID, 1 votes, 7.69%
- Warehouse Builder, 1 votes, 7.69%
- DataGuard - logical standby, physical standby, 1 votes, 7.69%
- Best Practices for Table Creation, 1 votes, 7.69%
- Migrating your skills to areas of high demand, 2 votes, 15.38%



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It's been a while since we've had an event and I'm
looking forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting
new folks from all around central Alabama at our
meeting next Wednesday.

We have to get a count for lunch so please send in
your RSVP if you plan to attend.  Just reply to this
email to RSVP.

I've enclosed the full announcement below...

###

RSVP's Required (count for lunch needed, RSVP by
replying to this message):

On Wednesday, August 31st at 11:30 Kenny Smith of
Cnetics will be doing a live "Get on the Grid"
presention for the Central Alabama Oracle User Group.
Lunch will be provided.

We will be meeting at the Energen Conference Center at
the Energen headquarters on 6th Ave. North and Richard
Arrington Blvd. Parking is provided on the top level
of the Energen parking deck which is adjacent to the
building.

I've included a description of the presentation that
Cnetics provided. You can see a picture of the
hardware if you follow the link.

Our "Get on the Grid" presentation discusses and
demonstrates a fully configured, portable Oracle 10g
RAC system running on HP equipment. Our portable
systems called "Test tRACks" are multi-bootable on
Linux, Windows and HP-UX depending on the hardware
configuration. (For more information on our portable
Oracle units, visit
http://www.cnetics.com/RACoverview.shtml.)

How the presentation works:

Our presentation gives attendees an opportunity to
learn about and get hands-on with 10g RAC. We will
bring a portable Real Application Cluster system with
a wireless access point. We describe the hardware and
software configuration and then demonstrate important
RAC features such as transaction application failover,
load balancing, and scalability on the live system. We
then allow attendees to login via their laptops and
"play" with Linux, Windows, Oracle, clustered file
systems & clustered servers.

We've made this presentation at the Georgia Oracle
User Group Conference and the International Oracle
User Group Conference. We've also presented
"Get on the Grid" to groups such the Columbus Linux
Users Group, the Atlanta Unix Users Group and the East
Tennessee Oracle Users Group with great success.

You can also read Kenny's professional bio at
http://www.cnetics.com/bios.shtml.

++

I think this will be a great presentation and I hope
to see you all there. You can just reply to this
message to RSVP.

Regards,
Jim Hill



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Here's a link to a map for finding the Energen
Corporate building, the location of the next Oracle
user group event:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=605+Richard+Arrington+Jr+Blvd+North,+Birmingham,+A\
labama+35203&spn=0.024846,0.038405&hl=en

(Note: If you want to see something neat, click on the
"Hybrid" button on the top right side of the map.)

--- Jim Hill <jfordhill@...> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jim Hill <jfordhill@...>
> Subject: Oracle User Group - RSVP's needed
> To: caoug-announce <caoug-announce@yahoogroups.com>
>
> It's been a while since we've had an event and I'm
> looking forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting
> new folks from all around central Alabama at our
> meeting next Wednesday.
>
> We have to get a count for lunch so please send in
> your RSVP if you plan to attend.  Just reply to this
> email to RSVP.
>
> I've enclosed the full announcement below...
>
> ###
>
> RSVP's Required (count for lunch needed, RSVP by
> replying to this message):
>
> On Wednesday, August 31st at 11:30 Kenny Smith of
> Cnetics will be doing a live "Get on the Grid"
> presention for the Central Alabama Oracle User
> Group.
> Lunch will be provided.
>
> We will be meeting at the Energen Conference Center
> at
> the Energen headquarters on 6th Ave. North and
> Richard
> Arrington Blvd. Parking is provided on the top level
> of the Energen parking deck which is adjacent to the
> building.
>
> I've included a description of the presentation that
> Cnetics provided. You can see a picture of the
> hardware if you follow the link.
>
> Our "Get on the Grid" presentation discusses and
> demonstrates a fully configured, portable Oracle 10g
> RAC system running on HP equipment. Our portable
> systems called "Test tRACks" are multi-bootable on
> Linux, Windows and HP-UX depending on the hardware
> configuration. (For more information on our portable
> Oracle units, visit
> http://www.cnetics.com/RACoverview.shtml.)
>
> How the presentation works:
>
> Our presentation gives attendees an opportunity to
> learn about and get hands-on with 10g RAC. We will
> bring a portable Real Application Cluster system
> with
> a wireless access point. We describe the hardware
> and
> software configuration and then demonstrate
> important
> RAC features such as transaction application
> failover,
> load balancing, and scalability on the live system.
> We
> then allow attendees to login via their laptops and
> "play" with Linux, Windows, Oracle, clustered file
> systems & clustered servers.
>
> We've made this presentation at the Georgia Oracle
> User Group Conference and the International Oracle
> User Group Conference. We've also presented
> "Get on the Grid" to groups such the Columbus Linux
> Users Group, the Atlanta Unix Users Group and the
> East
> Tennessee Oracle Users Group with great success.
>
> You can also read Kenny's professional bio at
> http://www.cnetics.com/bios.shtml.
>
> ++
>
> I think this will be a great presentation and I hope
> to see you all there. You can just reply to this
> message to RSVP.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Hill
>


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If you are planning on attending the Oracle user group
on Wednesday, today is your last chance to let us know
that we need to order lunch for you.

You are always welcome to attend, but you will have to
pick up lunch somewhere else if you don't RSVP.

Thanks.
Jim

--- In caoug-announce@yahoogroups.com, Jim Hill
<jfordhill@y...> wrote:
Here's a link to a map for finding the Energen
Corporate building, the location of the next Oracle
user group event:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=605+Richard+Arrington+Jr+Blvd+North,+Birmingham,+A\
labama+35203&spn=0.024846,0.038405&hl=en

--- Jim Hill <jfordhill@y...> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jim Hill <jfordhill@y...>
> Subject: Oracle User Group - RSVP's needed
> To: caoug-announce <caoug-announce@yahoogroups.com>
>
> It's been a while since we've had an event and I'm
> looking forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting
> new folks from all around central Alabama at our
> meeting next Wednesday.
>
> We have to get a count for lunch so please send in
> your RSVP if you plan to attend.  Just reply to this
> email to RSVP.
>
> I've enclosed the full announcement below...
>
> ###
>
> RSVP's Required (count for lunch needed, RSVP by
> replying to this message):
>
> On Wednesday, August 31st at 11:30 Kenny Smith of
> Cnetics will be doing a live "Get on the Grid"
> presention for the Central Alabama Oracle User
> Group.
> Lunch will be provided.
>
> We will be meeting at the Energen Conference Center
> at
> the Energen headquarters on 6th Ave. North and
> Richard
> Arrington Blvd. Parking is provided on the top level
> of the Energen parking deck which is adjacent to the
> building.
>
> I've included a description of the presentation that
> Cnetics provided. You can see a picture of the
> hardware if you follow the link.
>
> Our "Get on the Grid" presentation discusses and
> demonstrates a fully configured, portable Oracle 10g
> RAC system running on HP equipment. Our portable
> systems called "Test tRACks" are multi-bootable on
> Linux, Windows and HP-UX depending on the hardware
> configuration. (For more information on our portable
> Oracle units, visit
> http://www.cnetics.com/RACoverview.shtml.)
>
> How the presentation works:
>
> Our presentation gives attendees an opportunity to
> learn about and get hands-on with 10g RAC. We will
> bring a portable Real Application Cluster system
> with
> a wireless access point. We describe the hardware
> and
> software configuration and then demonstrate
> important
> RAC features such as transaction application
> failover,
> load balancing, and scalability on the live system.
> We
> then allow attendees to login via their laptops and
> "play" with Linux, Windows, Oracle, clustered file
> systems & clustered servers.
>
> We've made this presentation at the Georgia Oracle
> User Group Conference and the International Oracle
> User Group Conference. We've also presented
> "Get on the Grid" to groups such the Columbus Linux
> Users Group, the Atlanta Unix Users Group and the
> East
> Tennessee Oracle Users Group with great success.
>
> You can also read Kenny's professional bio at
> http://www.cnetics.com/bios.shtml.
>
> ++
>
> I think this will be a great presentation and I hope
> to see you all there. You can just reply to this
> message to RSVP.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Hill
>



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I hope to see you all there.  If you haven't sent in an RSVP, just
pick up some lunch and come on over.  We should have plenty of room
and I'm expecting a great presentation.

See details below...

--- In caoug-announce@yahoogroups.com, Jim Hill <jfordhill@y...>
wrote:
Here's a link to a map for finding the Energen
Corporate building, the location of the next Oracle
user group event:

http://maps.google.com/maps?
q=605+Richard+Arrington+Jr+Blvd+North,+Birmingham,+Alabama+35203&spn=0
.024846,0.038405&hl=en

(Note: If you want to see something neat, click on the
"Hybrid" button on the top right side of the map.)

--- Jim Hill <jfordhill@y...> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jim Hill <jfordhill@y...>
> Subject: Oracle User Group - RSVP's needed
> To: caoug-announce <caoug-announce@yahoogroups.com>
>
> It's been a while since we've had an event and I'm
> looking forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting
> new folks from all around central Alabama at our
> meeting next Wednesday.
>
> We have to get a count for lunch so please send in
> your RSVP if you plan to attend.  Just reply to this
> email to RSVP.
>
> I've enclosed the full announcement below...
>
> ###
>
> RSVP's Required (count for lunch needed, RSVP by
> replying to this message):
>
> On Wednesday, August 31st at 11:30 Kenny Smith of
> Cnetics will be doing a live "Get on the Grid"
> presention for the Central Alabama Oracle User
> Group.
> Lunch will be provided.
>
> We will be meeting at the Energen Conference Center
> at
> the Energen headquarters on 6th Ave. North and
> Richard
> Arrington Blvd. Parking is provided on the top level
> of the Energen parking deck which is adjacent to the
> building.
>
> I've included a description of the presentation that
> Cnetics provided. You can see a picture of the
> hardware if you follow the link.
>
> Our "Get on the Grid" presentation discusses and
> demonstrates a fully configured, portable Oracle 10g
> RAC system running on HP equipment. Our portable
> systems called "Test tRACks" are multi-bootable on
> Linux, Windows and HP-UX depending on the hardware
> configuration. (For more information on our portable
> Oracle units, visit
> http://www.cnetics.com/RACoverview.shtml.)
>
> How the presentation works:
>
> Our presentation gives attendees an opportunity to
> learn about and get hands-on with 10g RAC. We will
> bring a portable Real Application Cluster system
> with
> a wireless access point. We describe the hardware
> and
> software configuration and then demonstrate
> important
> RAC features such as transaction application
> failover,
> load balancing, and scalability on the live system.
> We
> then allow attendees to login via their laptops and
> "play" with Linux, Windows, Oracle, clustered file
> systems & clustered servers.
>
> We've made this presentation at the Georgia Oracle
> User Group Conference and the International Oracle
> User Group Conference. We've also presented
> "Get on the Grid" to groups such the Columbus Linux
> Users Group, the Atlanta Unix Users Group and the
> East
> Tennessee Oracle Users Group with great success.
>
> You can also read Kenny's professional bio at
> http://www.cnetics.com/bios.shtml.
>
> ++
>
> I think this will be a great presentation and I hope
> to see you all there. You can just reply to this
> message to RSVP.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Hill
>


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Those of you who work with PL/SQL on a regular basis
may be interested in the attached announcement.

Note: forwarded message attached.


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We're considering bringing in a company in November
(tentatively on the 17th) that specializes in dealing
with the complexities of Oracle software licensing.
Please read the attached info sheet and let me know if
you would attend a mid-day luncheon about this topic.
Note: I'm not asking for an RSVP at this time, but we
do need to guage the level of interest.

Also, I'd like to send a special invitation to those
in your companies with budgetary responsibilities for
Oracle software purchases.  I think they would have a
special interest in this topic.  Just send me their
names and email addresses and I'll send out the
invitation.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
Jim Hill



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BEST PRACTICES IN ATLANTA
OCTOBER 18TH


KEYNOTE SPEAKER IS
TOM KYTE!!!!!!!

Executing a 10g upgrade requires preparing and
planning, learn the path for success

How to Effectively use tools provided by support to
keep you systems running

What licenses you have and the best way to use them

Implementing high availability strategies that assure
business continuity within your enterprise

How you can use Oracle to Build the Intelligence
enterprise

Follow the link below to find out all the details:

http://www.oracle.com/global/northamerica/evite_best_practices_atlanta_oct2005.h\
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A couple of months back my new management came to me
with questions about Oracle licensing and I had to
confess that I didn't know very much about it.  Since
then I have done a lot of research and found out that
Oracle license compliance is a very detailed and
complex subject.  On top of that complexity, you add
account rep relationships and contract negotiations
and you've got a web that can get pretty tangled.

On Thursday, November 17th at 11:30 Scott Rosenberg,
President and CEO of Miro Consulting Inc, will be
coming in to help us untangle this web.

I think all of you will find that this is a
fascinating topic that will help to prepare you for
when your management comes to you with licensing
questions.  Also, for those individuals in your
organizations who have budgetary responsibilities for
Oracle and those who are tasked with licensing
compliancy, this event will be of special interest.
In fact, I'm attaching a special invitation for your
management to come, eat lunch and learn all about
unraveling the mysteries of Oracle licensing.

Lunch will be served at 11:30 and we will begin the
presentation shortly thereafter.  We will be meeting
in the Energen Conference Center as we did a couple of
months ago and I promise to get you better
instructions about how to park for free in the Energen
deck.

Please RSVP as soon as you can because we anticipate a
large crowd and we need to make sure we are prepared
for lunch and the presentation.  You can RSVP by
replying to this message and giving me a count.

Sincerely,
Jim Hill
Central Alabama Oracle User Group





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