Hotsos 2010 – My Agenda

Let’s see how well I can stick to this

Sunday

18:00 – Registration and Reception
21:00 – Bed

Monday

09:45 – Tom Kyte: All About Metadata: Why Telling the Database about Your Schema Matters   
11:00 – Richard Foote: Oracle Indexing Myths
12:00 – Lunch (make sure new laptop works with projector, get changed and start panicking a bit more)
13:00 – Dan Norris: Consolidation Strategies for Oracle Database Machine (would love to see Alex, but this one’s relevant to work at the moment)
14:15 – Me: How I Learned to Love Pictures — Oracle 10g/11g Performance Analysis Using OEM
15:30 – Kevin Closson: Ten Years after Y2K, and We Still “Party like It’s 1999”
16:45 – Kerry Osborne: Controlling Execution Plans (without Touching the Code)
Evening – Oak Table Dinner

Tuesday

08:30 -Wolfgang Breitling: Anatomy of a SQL Tuning Session
09:45 – Neil Gunther/Peter Stalder: How to Quantify Oracle Scalability, Parts I and II
12:00 – Lunch (Blogging)
13:00 – Marco Gralike: The Ultimate Performance Challenge: How to Make XML Perform.?!
14:00 – Important work conference call (so I’ll miss Henry Poras, who I planned to see)
15:30 – Kerry Osborne: My Favorite Scripts — 2010
16:45 – Richard Foote: Oracle Indexing Tricks and Traps
19:00 – Party Night
22:00 – Bed (probably)

Wednesday

08:30 – Cary Millsap: Lessons Learned, Version 2010.03
09:45 – Tanel Põder: Understanding LGWR, log file sync Waits and Commit Performance
11:00 – Dave Abercrombie: End-to-End Metrics for Troubleshooting and Monitoring
12:00 – Lunch (Blogging)
13:00 – Alex Gorbachev: Run-Time Load Balancing in Oracle RAC
14:15 – Christian Antognini: Diagnosing Parallel Executions Performance
15:30 – Farewell
16:30 – Relaxation (which might well be poured into a glass or three)

Thursday

08:30 – Training Day with Tanel Põder

Friday

Catch up on emails and blogging, then head home …

As usual, there are a couple of really tough choices in there so a) no slight intended and b) I might make a few last minute changes of mind!