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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 5:08 PM
to Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 8:08 PM

e might use them, and various useful ‘techniques’ you need to know in order to make the most of them.

Database Worst Practices 1 hour

A lot of time is spent by IT professionals studying best practices in the industry. This presentation turns that around and takes a look at some "worst practices," the top things you can do to ensure failure, delays, and poor performance in your database applications. Instead of focusing on things to do in your database applications, the presentation looks at things you should never do. The presentation uses actual customer experiences to investigate the top 10 things done wrong over and over again, and how to avoid making the same mistakes yourself. 
 Tom Kyte is a Senior Technical Architect in Oracle’s Server Technology Division. Before starting at Oracle, Kyte worked as a systems integrator building large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications, mostly for military and government customers. Kyte spends a great deal of time working with the Oracle database and, more specifically, working with people who are working with the Oracle database. In addition, Kyte is the Tom behind the AskTom column in Oracle Magazine, answering people's questions about the Oracle database and its tools (http://asktom.oracle.com/). Kyte is also the author of Expert Oracle Database Architecture (Apress, 2005), Expert One on One Oracle(Wrox Press, 2001/Apress 2004), Beginning Oracle Programing (Wrox press, 2002/Apress 2004), and Effective Oracle by Design (Oracle Press, 2003). These are books about the general use of the database and how to develop successful Oracle applications.