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You want to present at his year's UKOUG Technology Conference 2013 which will be taking place on 2nd - 4th December at the Manchester Central Convention Complex - make sure you submit your middleware papers!

We really want to shake up the agenda to make our first Technology conference the (more...)

On 18th July, the UKOUG has a combined technical Oracle SIG in London.

I am (a) deputy chairman of the Availability, Infrastructure and Management (AIM) SIG, which concentrates on subjects like RAC, Exadata and Grid Control, and we are combining forces with the Database Server SIG to produce a 2-stream (more...)

In this digital edition find out what a Server Administrator needs to know about Oracle ADF. Read about the history of using database clones to improve application development and the technical advances of thin provisioned clones. As shared services centers in the finance area are increasingly becoming mainstream establishments for (more...)

In this digital edition find out what a Server Administrator needs to know about Oracle ADF. Read about the history of using database clones to improve application development and the technical advances of thin provisioned clones. As shared services centers in the finance area are increasingly becoming mainstream establishments for (more...)

Last week we held the UKOUG Database SIG in Leeds as I described in a recent post. It was a well attended event in a  central location with excellent refreshments available. – Thank you to UKOUG’s  Anna Crellin for organising the day so well.

The talks were all very good (more...)

On Thursday I attended the UKOUG Database Server SIG in Leeds. All slides have been uploaded to the UKOUG website.

https://www.ukoug.org/events/ukoug-database-server-sig-meeting-may-2013/

It’s the first SIG I’ve attended this year and after enjoying it so much I ought to try harder to get to other events. We had Oak (more...)

This is just a reminder for what I think is a strong Core DBA centric agenda being organised by the UKOUG

The location is the Met Hotel in Leeds, right by the station and the last meeting in Leeds several years ago, was well attended so I am sure this (more...)

Last time a database server SIG was held in Leeds we had a very good attendance and hopefully this will be repeated on Thursday May 9th 2013 when the Metropole Hotel will be the host. This 4 star hotel is very conveniently placed not more than a couple of hundred yards from the station and should be a very good venue.

As always we are looking for good presentations from UKOUG members so that we can have a really strong database focused agenda.

If anyone wishes to present for the first time this would be a good opportunity but experienced (more...)

This has been a good but tiring week. It started with the UKOUG TEBS conference where I saw lots of people I know, a few who I didn’t but now do and I had good times in pubs and restaurants. One evening culminated in my singing part of “Two out of Three ain’t bad” in the style of a munchkin with Nial Litchfield in a pub at 1am, which I am sure he woud rather forget about – so if you know him, ask him about it. For me that was the indicator to go lie down in the dark (more...)

The annual UK Oracle User Group Technical and E-Business Suite conference is fast approaching and rather than just say “hey everyone, I’m going to present at a conference” I thought I would say why I present at conferences (and SIGs (and any opportunity I get) ).

The UKOUG TEBS conference is the one that is, in my eyes, the UKOUG conference. It covers E-business suite and the core database stuff – DBA-type things and developer-type things. The things I am interested in. You can see the details and agenda via this link. If you would like to see someone else’s (more...)

Scale Abilities is very proud to announce that we have secured first place (Gold) in the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards in the Database category. Thanks go out to all our clients that voted for us, we really appreciate your support and hope that we continue to exceed your expectations moving forward. Our competitors in [...]

Today the UK’s big Oracle User event has just lifted its skirts to show off its new frilly agenda, which can be found here.

I have been a member of the UKOUG for well over a decade, and a Special Interest Group (SIG) Deputy Chairman for the last 5 or 6 years. As an independent consultant this costs me money in lost earnings, basic membership fees, travel, hotels, flowers for the wife, etc. However, I make my living as an Oracle consultant and I need to keep up with trends, understand a broad range of information about the Oracle world, (more...)

The last UKOUG Development SIG focused on Forms. Its theme was Forms in the 21st Century: modernise, integrate, migrate? I think we covered modernisation and migration very well. But even in a packed day we couldn't cover everything, and I fear integration was not done full justice.

It wasn't planned this way, but it so happens the upcoming UKOUG Development SIG is all about Application Integraton and SOA. Integration is a topic which is in everybody's baliwick. The business people want to get the best value from their existing IT investments. The architects need to understand the interfaces bewteen the (more...)

The UK Oracle User Group has put out it’s call for papers, and the deadline is rapidly approaching.

Have you registered as a speaker and sent in a abstract yet? NO? Don’t you know how great an opportunity it is for you. Discuss your ideas with your peers. Network. Instruct and inform. Help other avoid the pitfalls which dogged your project. All by telling everyone about it. We will love you for it at the user group. And you will love the feedback you get. Anyone can speak, everyone has a good story to tell.

You need to register by (more...)

Now that the UKOUG annual conference in Birmingham is over, it's time to write my thoughts down. As this was the second time that I attended the UKOUG conference, I already knew that it is a big conference. Lots of great speakers and a very good agenda. On the agenda were very interesting session, sometimes making it very hard to choose which session to go to. Guess you can't complain about that. On the Sunday before the actual conference starts, the OakTable organized a special day. Originally I didn't plan to attending this day, as I was flying in in (more...)

Looking back at this weeks UKOUG Conference, a few things strike my mind. At first, there was no snow this time! A lot of wind to make my flight back quite wobbly, but no snow - like last year - that would make travelling very hard (up to almost impossible).
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Venue: Pennyblack’s at The Mailbox – http://www.pennyblacksbar.com

Time: Monday 29th November arrive 8:00pm – 8:30pm

Be there!