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(… or why cuddly toys aren’t allowed out of the house with me too often.) What I neglected to mention in the last post was that, when JB turned up at All Bar One, not only did he tell me how much he’d enjoyed Robyn’s presentation, he also highlighted the fact that Roger Wilco was… Continue reading The continuing adventures of Roger Wilco

“I might attend a couple of presentations later, but I doubt it.“ In the end I decided I’d had enough of my own presentation and I really wanted to see James Morle and Eric Grancher talk about storage so I decided to just pop back to the conference quickly and keep a low profile, other… Continue reading UKOUG Day 2

After more work on the presentation and some very strange sleeping hours thanks to the raucuous ranks on Broad Street, it was time for the first of my presentations. But before that I wanted to attend JB’s “Proactive Detection of Oracle Performance Events using Adaptive Thresholds” (skipped), the always entertaining Mogens Norgaard’s “The Danish Experiment:… Continue reading UKOUG Day 3

I’m typing this during the big keynote on Oracle Exadata and I’m in my hotel room which might seem strange seeing how much of an Exadata fan-boy I’ve been in the recent past. But I’ve already seen those presentations and so I always had my eye on today as one I’d largely spend away from… Continue reading UKOUG Day 1

There’s a bit of a story behind this one, so bear with me. Here’s an excerpt from an email thread discussing arrangements for the Oak Table at this year’s UKOUG conference. Question – Will you be bringing any employees to man the Oaktable?  If so, they can register for exhibition only tickets at the following… Continue reading Roger Wilco

With the help of Oracle as sponsors, Peter Robson has organised a new seminar with Chris Date in Edinburgh on 10-12th of November. The format of “A Relational Approach to SQL” will be two days of tutorial-like presentation from Date, followed by a Wednesday morning of discussion and debate. It sounds fascinating to me but… Continue reading C. J. Date in Edinburgh

Unfortunately, the two day performance course I was due to be teaching in Belgium in a couple of weeks has been cancelled. It also means that I won’t be getting to see the DUDE as soon as I thought 🙁

Well, I’m very pleased to see that non-attendees can access the presentations now, using this approach. I had confirmation from someone at Oracle that they wouldn’t be accessible so either their information was wrong or there’s been a change of heart. For example, here is Juan Loaiza’s Exadata presentation from Thursday.

I received confirmation recently that the OOW 2008 presentations will only be available to registered attendees. Whilst I can understand that Oracle might not want to give away presentations when they can sell them on DVD and want to encourage attendance, I’m very disappointed in this change from previous years. When I’ve been blogging about… Continue reading Disappointing News

To those who have been badgering me about this for the best part of a week (they know who they are), it’s time for more information about this year’s Oracle ACE OOW gift. (Jacket by OTN, T-Shirt Model’s Own, Photography Alex Gorbachev, Camera Frits Hoogland) It’s not right. First of all, it’s sophisticated black. What… Continue reading Fleece Update