DOAG 2012 Conference

This is just a friendly reminder that I'll be talking at this year's DOAG Oracle conference about "Cost-Based Optimizer Basics" on Thursday, the 22nd of November, "Raum 1" at 13:00.

Additionally, I've reserved a slot at the "Unconference" (15:00 the same day) where I plan to present some of the interesting stuff that I cover as part of my "Parallel Execution Masterclass".

And soon the technical content will be back at this blog where I have lots of interesting stuff in the pipeline, mainly covering Parallel Execution topics.

GiveCamp

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| Oct 21, 2012

I really enjoyed Southwest Ohio GiveCamp this year. There are lots of community events where I learn stuff and have fun, but it's especially nice when we can also look back on something good done for a good cause.

I was on a small team that redid URS Dayton's website into a WordPress site. (The new version isn't online yet, so don't go clicking today and saying, "Ew, you're proud of that?") I'll say this for WordPress: despite having no genuinely experienced WordPress users on the team, we made a very presentable site in just an evening and a (more...)

Speaking in Perth at Oracle with 20:20 Foresight

The remotest city of the world, the capital of Western Australia, Perth is once again having its premier Oracle conference.

AUSOUG and OAUG invite you to join your colleagues from the WA Oracle community at their premier WA Oracle Conference being held at Hilton Parmelia Perth Hotel 29 - 30 October 2012.

The conference theme is "Technology and Applications Conference for the Oracle User Community".

I will be presenting there on Demystification of Oracle DBRM with IORM in Exadata and you can find my session location and time in the conference program

See you there in Perth on (more...)

My presentations at Oracle Open World 2012

Oracle Open world 2012 is already past and I’m back in Europe. Here is just a quick wrap up of my involvements at OOW 2012. 

Oracle Fusion Middleware Live Application Development (UGF10464)

For the fourth time, the Live FMW Application Development show has been held. This time at Oracle (more...)

My OOW 2012 Session Schedule, and more

This years visit to Oracle Open World is for me the best of both worlds. First of all I get to attend one of the biggest, if not the biggest, IT conferences in the world. Second, I have two presentations. Both are on Sunday afternoon. The first one is a (more...)

#oow or #oow12 is on the horizon

I just landed yesterday for Oracle Openworld Today. Oracle Openworld this year is  a not to miss experience specially for Database junkies. Oracle is supposed to talk about  New Databases , New Hardware, New applications , New Everything and i'm guessing C is the letter of the conference. Please note (more...)

DOAG 2012

This year again I'm going to present at the DOAG 2012 conference in November. Since it is a popular topic I decided to talk about "Cost-Based Optimizer Basics" there, too. According to the official schedule the presentation will take place on Thursday, the 22nd of November, "Raum 1" at 13:00.

Like last year, I'll also try to do some Unconference sessions in addition - if it is going to take place, which I don't know yet.

I'll post some updates as soon as I know more details.

Oracle Openworld 2012 is almost here #OOW12

Oracle Openworld 2012 is almost upon us. There is a lot of expectations and a lot of speculation about What Oracle is going to announce . A preview can kinda be found here and a Another mini real  conference The Oracle Real World Conference is advertised here.
A Safe Bet is (more...)

My Exadata Sessions at Insync12 Melbourne Australia on 22nd August

Fun with knowledge is on and I will be speaking at Insync12 in Melbourne on 22nd August.  I have two sessions to deliver, both related to Exadata, a technology closer to my heart.

About Insync: The InSync12 Conference and Exhibitor Showcase is a joint event of the Quest ANZ user group – representing JDE and PeopleSoft customers, and the Australian Oracle User Group (AUSOUG) representing the Technology, Development and Applications users.

Hope to see you there.

The conference program is here.

MEDIAS-2012

A week ago I was back home from MEDIAS-2012 conference. It was held in Limassol (Cyprus), near the spectacular ruins of ancient city Amathus. This was unique style general Computer Science conference with speakers including legendary Soviet cosmonaut Alexandr Serebrov and the inventor of Mean Value Analysis Professor Martin Reiser. In my experience the Reiser’s [...]

Hotsos Symposium 2012

Week ago I was back home from the 10th Hotsos Symposium, the best performance dedicated Oracle conference in the world. This was rare opportunity to see extraordinary presentations and discuss advanced Oracle topics. Inspired by Jonathan Lewis new book Oracle Core: Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers book I was happy to attend his Training [...]

Service Computation 2012

CFP extended to mid-March - see details here: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPSERVICECOMPUTATION12.html

SAP Cloud Inside : Build and Run Applications in the Cloud

Last week I was invited to present eXo Cloud IDE during the SAP Cloud Inside. This SAP Community event was a great opportunity to discuss about the cloud with an interesting point of view: the impact of the cloud for SAP customers (especially administrators and developers). During this presentation I (more...)

UKOUG 2011

I will be speaking about latches at UK Oracle User Group Conference 2011. It will be my first visit to this extraordinary conference and UK. Hopefully see you there!

VirtaThon: My Sessions Schedule

BrainSurface's VirtaThon conference has already started. Today is the second day of the virtual conference. These are a lot of interesting sessions from Oracle Expert's around the world.

I am speaking today and following are the details of my session:

RMAN: Recovery Procedures

Time slot: 17 July 14:30 - 15:25 EDT

Virtual Room: # 200

A detailed session schedule could be found here.

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Almost everyone of us would like to attend world-class physical conference events but, given these globally tough economic times that we live in, can we (more...)

Virtathon – A virtual conference for Oracle community


BrainSurface is organizing an online, virtual conference for the Oracle community called “VirtaThon” which includes Java and MySQL communities as well. I like the idea of online and virtual conference since personally I have not attended many conferences like Oracle Open World or IOUG etc. being in a part of the world where such conferences happen very less. I have always rued that I haven’t been able to attend such conferences organized for my community but now I’m very excited and looking forward to participate in VirtaThon.
I feel this is definitely a great way to learn about (more...)

MEDIAS-2011

A week ago I returned from MEDIAS-2011 conference, which was held in Limassol (Cyprus). It was an exciting experience to speak at general Computer Science conference. This was also an opportunity to discuss topics beyond the usual scope of Oracle conferences and see non addicted to Oracle point of view. As you may expect, my [...]

Collaborate11: Hits Not To Miss

Oracle User Group faithfuls from OAUG, Quest and IOUG will congregate at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL from Sunday, April 10 to Thursday, April 14, 2011. With over 1200 sessions and multiple mini events, 24 hours a day would not seem enough for attendees. Instead of spending hours flipping through the conference guide to decide the sessions to attend, use the My Show Planner Mobile to build your schedule and carry with you on your smart phone. Session updates and other news including cash prizes from Twitter feeds will all feature on this app. To make sure you do (more...)

Top Ten Reasons To Attend COLLABORATE11

COLLABORATE11 - The annual Oracle Applications conference hosted by user groups invites you to join thousands in sunny Orlando, FL. For those sitting on the fence and still deciding on attending the conference or not, here are the top ten reasons (in no specific order) to book your hotel rooms and airline tickets today.

Reason # 10 - The conference is like a week-long education class. The registration fee is less than $2000 (for Federal employees it is less than $1000). This is a big discount compared to a week-long class at leading Oracle education providers. Great value for money.

Reason (more...)