[One thing that's great about jet-lag is that it allows you to catch up on blogging and all the email that's built up while you've been away at the conference. Not much else you can do at 2:30 in the morning.] I’m glad I went to the Hotsos Symposium again this year. Attending conferences is [...]
My Unconference presentation slot was at 10:00 and in addition to Kevin Closson’s 9:00 slot being cancelled, I noticed that there was absolutely no one in ‘my room’ so it looked like a presentation fell through due to lack of attendees Not a promising start and there definitely needs to be an improvement to how [...]
Another good day although it didn’t go quite as I planned it, but that’s part of the fun of a good conference. Should I mention at this point that I have a cold? I certainly noticed it this morning I got moving eventually and my first session was "The Life of a Query" with Jonah [...]
I intended to go to some regular sessions, but changed tack and spent the day in Moscone West at the Unconference instead. Chalk & Talk: The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing (Greg Rahn, Database Performance Engineer, Real-World Performance Group @ Oracle): I’m not a DW guy and I don’t work with Exadata kit, [...]
As I keep saying (and I know you’ll be sick of this but it needs to be on each post in case they’re read in isolation). "Disclosure: I’m attending this year’s Openworld Conference at the invitation of the Oracle ACE Director program, which is paying my travel and accommodation expenses. The time off work is [...]
Today, 4th July, is Independence Day. I know this because Tech Republic has sent me an e-mail of special Independence Day offers. Only not that special, as the list seems to be the same list of offers they mailed for Father’s Day. At least that made sense: after all, nothing says “You’re the best dad [...]
Today, 4th July, is Independence Day. I know this because Tech Republic has sent me an e-mail of special Independence Day offers. Only not that special, as the list seems to be the same list of offers they mailed for Father’s Day. At least that made sense: after all, nothing says “You’re the best dad [...]