1. Database Special Interest Group September 14, 2003

2. Welcome ● Michael Brown, Chairman – Contact Information: ● mbrown@glenraven.com ● (336)586-1146 ● To Contact the entire board – oaugdbsigboard@yahoogroups.com ● Please Sign In

3. Agenda ● Business Meeting ● 3 speakers

4. Amendment to the Bylaws Election of Officers and appointment of the Board Paraphrased Version 3 Officers and 6-9 Board Members Officers are elected at the fall meeting for 2 years Officers then appoint board members Chairman is elected in even numbered years Vice-Chairman and Secretary in odd years Past Chairman is automatically on board Officers must ensure at least 6 other board members

5. Elections ● Election of Vice-Chairman and Secretary – Neil Jensen chaired a nominations committee for the Board ● Nominees – Vice-Chairman: Mark Farnham – Secretary: Lynda Rode – Floor is now open for Additional Nominations

6. Mailing List ● One of the new benefits offered by the OAUG for SIG and GEO groups ● Attachments are automatically stripped ● Must be a member to send to the list ● Our old contact list (oaugdbsig@yahoogroups) is defunct.

7. Mailing List ● Sign Up – Go to the SIG website: http://dbsig.oaug.org – Select ‘Join’ from the top menu – (Alternative) e-mail to dbsig-subscribe-requests@aqslists.com

8. Sessions of Interest ● Today’s Lunch – 11:30-2:00 under the Sails ● SIG Meetings – Upgrade (1-2 this room) – Sysadmin (2-3 this room) – ODTUG (12-4 Room 14B)

9. Sessions of Interest ● Panels (All are in Room 4) – Applications Database Performance, Tues 10:45 – 11i Cloning, Tues 1:45 – 11i Upgrade, Wed 10:15 ● Training Sessions – Technical Foundation-AOL, Room 7 Mon 9:30 – Customizing Workflows, Room 9, Tues 1:45 – Query Tuning Tips Used by the Experts, Room 7, Wed 9:00 – Various Sessions in from Solutions Beacon 11i Training, Room 11 Mon and Tues

10. Sessions of Interest ● Papers – Recipe for Automated and Instant 11i Clones, Room 10,Mon 9:30 – Forecasting Oracle System Performance Using Simulation, Room 10, Mon 3:15 – Care and Feeding of 11i, Room 6D, Tues 3:00 – Apps DBA - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks, Room 10, Wed 11:45 ● These are just a sample, others?

11. New Business From the Floor

12. Next Meetings ● March 7 – 2004 Hotsos Symposium – Dallas ● September 12 – OAUG Fall Conference – Orlando

13. The Good Stuff ● Lessons Learned – Red Hat and our EBSO 11i Reimplementation – Don Brewer, Red Hat, Director of DBA Services – Frank Myers, Red Hat, Global Manager of IT and Web Services

14. The Good Stuff ● Performance Testing the Oracle Applications – Michael Cartonis, Mercury Interactive, Senior Product Manager, Load Testing

15. The Good Stuff ● Space and Object Management in Oracle – Amit Ganesh, Oracle, Director, Data, Space and Transaction Processing, Data Storage Technology