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So after a day’s interesting presentations, it was time for the Cuddly Toy Meetup, but I can’t really tell you how I went because I went to the Blogger Meetup, started having a good time and forgot my supervision responsibilities. All I’ll say, for risk I’ll be kicked out of the hotel, is that when… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Blogger’s Meetup

At times like this I supposed I should (cough) tweet because, as Alex G pointed out to me last night, I’m far too late with this blog post so no-one will see it in time. Of course, if everyone would just shut the **** up and stop tweeting for 5 minutes, they might read a… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Unconference Session – HA DBA

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… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Decided to present after all

Well, it’s definitely a cold. Made it to bed just after 1 after a party which had convinced me I was feeling better, only to wake up stuffed with the cold, completely convinced that I’d slept in. It was 4:45 🙁 Bizarrely, I feel fully refreshed sleep-wise, but blocked up with cold. Just one ‘normal’… Continue reading OOW 2009 – The Jonathan Lewis Comedy Hour

As always, it depends on your perspective … Good StartAfter a nice late Friday with evening with Alex, Olga and Jacco, I was up at a reasonable time on Saturday morning and despite feeling a bit like a zombie (let’s not go into how a zombie might feel, if at all), I figured I might… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Good Start/Bad Start

That’s my first couple of sessions done and dusted, both pretty good ones too although I’m going to have to admit defeat now and try to catch some sleep in the hope it will pay off over the rest of the week. First, though was a nostalgic trip to Lori’s Diner for some breakfast. Although… Continue reading OOW 2009 Begins

Although I haven’t blogged about it specifically, my regular weekly trips to work in London recently have included a couple of fellow travellers each week. The rule has been that once a Cuddly Toy has experienced the London trip, they move to the ‘old’ comfy seat (the black leather recliner) so we can keep track… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Freeloaders!

As I’m working at a grown-up site that doesn’t ban blogging but has a blogging policy instead, I think it’s only fair that I follow it, even if I’m an external consultant and not a full-time employee. If they play fair with me, I’ll play fair with them. So I’ve added one of those disclaimer… Continue reading Disclaimer

Some features in this post require a Diagnostics Pack license. I noticed my Netvibes home page light up today with the release of 11.2 on OTN (Greg’s is just one of a bunch of posts) – official home page here. More important to me was the documentation and there were two things that I dived… Continue reading 11.2 Release

Some features in this post require a Diagnostics Pack license. This morning I had an opportunity to use one of my favourite AWR tools, the differences report. Our system has a fairly involved overnight batch schedule consisting of multiple concurrent job streams that starts at 02:00 and usually completes at about 5:40. This morning it… Continue reading AWR Differences Report