Hotsos Symposium Speakers and Topics

Hotsos Symposium Speakers and Topics 2013

Symposium 2012 Speaker: Mark Farnham Hotsos thanks each of you who submitted abstracts for consideration as speakers for Symposium 2013. The abstracts were outstanding again this year, and we are very grateful to Cary Millsap for his help in making the final decisions.

Speakers

Topics for this year will again range from deeply technical to motivational, in subjects including application and business instrumentation, Oracle database internals, SQL optimization, capacity planning, the arts of technical communication, application and system architecture design, and much more.

We are pleased to announce that the list of speakers for Symposium 2013 is as follows:

Speaker Name	Topic
Abel Macias	The Sins of SQL Programming that Send the DB to Post-Upgrade Performance Purgatory
Alex Gorbachev	Data Science for the Oracle DBA
Andrew Zitelli	Performance Nightmares: A Symptom of Database Ignorance
Bruce Ernst	Improving Performance Using Bitmap Indexes
Carlos Sierra	Understanding SQLTXPLAIN (SQLT) Main Report by Navigating through Some Samples
Cary Millsap	Performance Is a Feature: Here Is the Specification
Felix Castillo	The Oracle Performance Signature
Frits Hoogland	About Multiblock Reads
George Djerdj Srdanov	How to Get the Most out of Your I/O Subsystem?
Gerwin Hendriksen	"Method GAPP" Used to Mine OEM 12c Repository and AWR Data
Gwen Shapira	#1: Building an Integrated Data Warehouse with Oracle Database and Hadoop
Gwen Shapira	#2: Visualizing Database Performance Using R
Iordan Iotzov	Working with Confidence: How Sure Is the Oracle CBO about Its Cardinality Estimates, and Why Does It Matter?
Jacco Landlust	Lessons Learned while Pushing the Limits of SecureFiles
John Clarke	Exadata Storage Indexes, Inside and Out
John Hurley	OS Truth, Little White Lies, and the Oracle Wait Interface
Karen Morton	SQL Performance Solutions: Refactor Mercilessly, Index Wisely
Kellyn Pot'Vin	EM12c: Metric Extensions — Designing, Deploying and Dynamic Success
Kerry Osborne	Adaptive Optimization
Kyle Hailey	Database Virtualization Comes of Age
Kyle Towle	Successful Performance Testing & Benchmarking Practices
Kyle Towle & Sarah Brydon	Database Cloud Performance and Scalability
Marco Gralike	Creating Structure in Unstructured Data
Maria Colgan	What to Expect from the Latest Version of the Oracle Optimizer
Mark Farnham	Systematically Avoiding Deadlocks to Achieve Superior Performance
Neil Gunther	Superlinear Scalability: The Perpetual Motion of Parallel Performance
Noelle Stimely	Is Your Database Stressed? Load Testing for Peak Performance
Paul Jackson	Hunting Down Performance Problems
Paul Matuszyk	Oracle System Statistics
Shan Nawaz	Can Old Roads Lead to a New Destination?
Stephan Haisley	Minimizing Downtime of Planned Outages with Oracle Goldengate
Stephen Vaillancourt	Guerilla Database Tuning
Steven Feuerstein	High Performance PL/SQL
Tim Gorman	Fastest UPDATE Is an INSERT
Tom Kyte	Five Things You Want to Know "Go Faster"
Toon Koppelaars	SQL Plan Management

Biographies of Speakers

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Abstracts

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Presentation Materials

Presentation materials will be available online for registration attendees to download prior to the event...if the speakers submit them on-time.

Presentation materials are available to attendees only.

Schedule

The speaker schedule is as follows: