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When Jonathan Lewis decided it was time to post a list of the Partition Stats posts on his blog and Noons suggested I made them easier to track down, I listened. So this post will link to the others and, at least in the short term, I’ve also included links in the side-bar on the… Continue reading Statistics on Partitioned Tables – Contents

[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… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – Summary

I generally wouldn’t visit the Hotsos Training Day, mainly because I’ve been away from home and work for long enough, particularly when you add the travelling time at either end, but this time I was determined to attend because Tanel was presenting. It was a busy room with a very high percentage of attendees staying… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – Day 5 – Training Day with Tanel Poder

I heard someone bemoaning the lack of Swag at Hotsos – just an event program, couple of magazines and a small clockwork toy sponsored by Oracle. I don’t think I ever come to the Symposium expecting Swag – it’s just not that kind of event. But you do tend to get good speaker gifts, including… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – What’s THAT?

First up was Cary Millsap’s – Lessons Learned, Version 2010.03 As Cary pointed out, they always try to put the best speakers in the toughest slots – 8:30 in the morning post-party. I think local guys are slightly more reliable too because they might have actually gone home the night before! He started with a… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – Day 4

There she goes, squirreling into the corner of your carry-on.  Ready for another adventure.  Tucked between a fun floppy hat and the flourescent sun-block, of which she uses plenty, pale creature that she is, Monique is situated to prove to you that a seasoned traveller knows best.  Dressed in a curly mohair (so as not… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – Monique

Well, that was a nice start to the day! Someone came up to me just before Wolfgang Breitling’s presentation to point out that something from my presentation had helped him fix a problem at work last night. It was the OEM Raw Data drill-down that shows you the underlying ASH data for sessions, including backgrounds.… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – Day 3 – An excellent one (part 1)

I really don’t know how to blog about this because every time I feel I’m honestly self-critical, everyone thinks I’m close to suicide or something. I like to think I notice both the good and the bad but am probably more likely to speak openly about the bad. If you ask me it’s a Scottish… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – My Presentation

You managed to capture a couple of minutes of my presentation when there was a picture on the screen!

A 3:30 start, which gave me lots of time to work on my demos and by breakfast time at 7:30, I felt in a reasonable place (but not quite done yet) and headed down to eat … wait for it … some fruit! Then again, I’d eaten so little the previous day that I had… Continue reading Hotsos 2010 – Day 2 – The conference begins