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106 A Practical Guide to 10g RAC Installation and Configuration - It's REAL Easy!
Gavin Soorma, Emirates Airline, Dubai

110 Oracle TimesTen: RAM Jet Your Database
Henri Tuthill, Astrazeneca R & D

111 Metropolitan Oracle RAC Cluster At 40 Miles Distance
George Holicka, Teranet

120 Mastering Grid Computing
Anthony Noriega, ADN

125 Linux Environment Tip - Setting OH and Shared Aliases
Ray Smith, QCSI MyHealthBank

132 Oracle 10g Dataguard Implementation Guidelines and Best Practices
Alex Wang, Bank of America

134 Diamonds in the Rough: 10gR2 Rules Manager and Expression Filters
John Kanagaraj, DB Soft Inc

136 3 Major Trends in the Database World
Rich Niemiec, TUSC

141 Virtualizing Your Development and Test Environments with VMWare
Matt Topper, IT Convergence

215 In Bed With Oracle - Lifting The Covers On Database Creation
Sean Hull, Heavyweight Internet Group

216 RAC for Beginners: The Basics
Dan Norris, IT Convergence

217 Data Pump: Not Just for Data Movement
Arup Nanda, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

218 What Impact Does Automation Have On the Role of the DBA?
Venkat Devraj, Stratavia

227 The Best 11g New Features
Rich Niemiec, TUSC

228 How Much do Concurrent Updates Impact Query Performance in Oracle?
Roger Schrag, Database Specialists, Inc.

242 No Space? Not a problem - This Job Refuses to Die
Kirtikumar Deshpande, Idearc Media

244 Oracle 10g for the Very New DBA
Earl Shaffer, OracleMan Consulting

245 Oracle Database 11g: Next Generation High Availability
Ashish Ray, Oracle Corporation

247 Seamless Transition to Oracle Database 10g and Grid- A Technical Blueprint
Shankaran Iyer, Carlson Marketing Worldwide

249 Oracle Database 10g: Implement Streams
Daniel Liu, First American Real Estate Solutions

255 RAC 10g Best Practices and Tuning
Natik Ameen, ServerCare

260 Your 10g Tuning Arsenal: AWR, ADDM, ASH, Metrics and Advisors
John Kanagaraj, DB Soft Inc

263 DBA Best Practices from the Field
Arup Nanda, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

264 ASM -A Breakthrough in Database Storage Management
Arulselvaraj Arogyanathan, Emirates Airline

267 Implementing and managing a Logical Standby Database
Tim Quinlan, TLQ Consulting Inc.

271 Oracle and NLS
Gary Gordhamer, GE Healthcare

282 Proactive Load Balancing in Oracle 10gR2 RAC
Murali Vallath, Summersky Enterprises

286 Case Studies on RMAN Metrics
Anthony Noriega, ADN

288 What if Kramer was your DBA and Seinfeld Tuned Your Database
Rich Niemiec, TUSC

290 Oracle Database 10g Transparent Data Encryption
Carl Dudley, University of WolverHAMPTON

291 RMAN: Don't Leave Home Without It. Examples of Compelling Features
Allan Edwards, Integra Technology Consulting

293 Tuning with SQL Profiles
Joze Senegacnik, private researcher

295 Oracle Security - Are You at Risk ?
Tapan Trivedi, Housing and Community Development

299 The Answer to Free Memory, Swap, Oracle and Everything
Christo Kutrovsky, The Pythian Group

301 Database Tuning Using Oracle Database 10g Grid Control
Christopher Foot, Remote DBA Experts Division of Contemporary Technologies

302 Indexes (Indices) A TO Z – A Comprehensive Analysis
David Aihe, Medical Artificial Intelligence

503 Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g Release 3 Overview
Pavana Jain, Oracle Corporation

512 Virtual Hosts in a Real World
Mike Webb, EDS

513 Introducing Oracle Queueing /Messaging Technologies
Anthony Noriega, ADN

514 Managing Fusion Middleware Grid Deployments
John Lang, Oracle Corporation

518 Fusion Applications on Oracle Application Server 10g R3: Top 10 Infrastructure Changes to Learn
Mike Lehmann, Oracle Corporation

528 Proactively Identify and Solve Oracle Middleware Performance Problems
Jeff Cobb, Wily Technology Division

545 Oracle Application Server Administration 101
Chris Ostrowski, TUSC

Q114 Exposing Business Functionality Using Oracle Networking Services
Sushanta Saha, ALLTEL CORP.

Q211 Live Demo of Reading the Transaction Inside the Oracle Data Blocks and Undo Blocks by Block Dump.
Sandip Patel, Abbott Labs

Q212 Flexibility of Rollback Segments
Sushanta Saha, ALLTEL CORP.

Q214 Inside Overview of ASM Metadata
Vinod Haval, Bank of America

Q239 Demo on Interested Transaction Lock (ITL) Inside Oracle Block–INITRANS and MAXTRANS –From 9i to 10g
Sandip Patel, Abbott Labs

Q272 What You Can Do When Your Database Runs Out Of Temp Space
Roger Schrag, Database Specialists, Inc.

U1 High Availability Using Rman and Data Guard
Tim Quinlan, TLQ Consulting Inc.

U10 Getting Started with Oracle Application Express (APEX - Formerly HTMLDB)
Robert Freeman, TUSC

U17 Oracle Database 10g: New Features for DBA
Daniel Liu, First American Real Estate Solutions

U19 Implementing RAC
Ashok Singh, FASTENAL

U2 Mastering ASM
Arup Nanda, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

U20 Core DBA to Apps DBA: What You Need to Know to Transition
John Kanagaraj, DB Soft Inc

U21 Virtual Database
Robert Corfman, The Boeing Company

U4 Oracle Application Server: End-to-End
Chris Ostrowski, TUSC

U7 Forecasting Oracle Performance 101
Craig Shallahamer, Orapub, Inc.