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This was in my list of possible future posts but I see my mate Ilmar Kerm has beaten me to it, so you might as well read about them here ….

Last week (yeah, I’ve been busy) was the first time I’d delivered a web-conference – using Microsoft LiveMeeting at my current customer site. As others have reported in the past, it’s a little weird not being able to look into the eyes of the people you’re presenting to but I’m pretty passionate about the OEM… Continue reading My First Web-Conference

In the previous blog in this mini-series, I arrived into the project and was asked to review the external vendor’s initial High Level Design (HLD). As stated previously, there are a total of five Oracle databases in the system architecture. All will be running on 10g which is good news because external vendors often don’t… Continue reading Recovery Design part 2 – Asking the right questions

At the end of my Tracing Parallel Execution presentation at the Scottish OUG conference, Michael Møller of Miracle asked whether the consolidated trace files produced by the DBMS_MONITOR package and trcsess utility are in strict time order. i.e. Will I see the actions of the query coordinator, then the actions that the slaves perform on… Continue reading 10g Consolidated Trace Files and PX

Thanks to Marco’s OOW 2009 Photo Stream, here are a few pictures from my Unconference Presentation :- Clockwise L-R – Me, JB from Oracle, Jacco Landlust, some Cuddly Toys. I have to thank Boneist for this line she sent me in an email not long before the presentation. It seemed somehow appropriate. Yes, I know… Continue reading OOW2009 – Pictures

I always had Wednesday and Thursday in mind as rest days, compared to the first three days and it almost worked out that way. There was certainly even more socialising although whether that was truly restful is debatable 😉 I kicked off Wednesday by attending “HA DBA Roundtable: How Do You Make DBA’s Highly Available?”… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Wednesday

… from my usual name-dropping, as Boneist pointed out so acutely 😉 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oracle ACE Director, President and Commander-in-Chief Obama! How do I know that Barak Obama is an ACE Director? Because we’re staying in the same hotel! Sorry, but I find the whole thing quite exciting for some bizarre… Continue reading OOW 2009 – A Step Up …

I’ve been trying for weeks to get a picture of me wearing the jacket you receive when you’re made an ACE Director but it’s proved trcky so I brought it over with me this week and wore it one day so Marco could take the photo. Unfortunately we didn’t get round to it so here… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Swag Round-up

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… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Thursday

So the time has arrived. We’re just waiting for our car to take us to the airport and it’s time to say thanks to …. – Friends, Oak Table Network Members, and fellow ACEs (some qualify in all three categories) who are the essence of attending the conference for me. I only wish there weren’t… Continue reading OOW 2009 – Going Home