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Yesterday was the best day so far, particularly the morning. To start with, I was feeling a little more human (although still out of bed at 4am). I managed to squeeze in breakfast with APC, three conference sessions and a lovely burger for lunch 😉 First was Jonathan Schwartz’s keynote. You’ll have read plenty about… Continue reading OOW – Day 4 – Performance Day

That’s the difficulty with enormous ‘Appreciation Events’. You stop to have a smoke and you lose contact with others. So, if you chaps are around in the morning, I’ll meet you in the diner for breakfast at 7:30. (If you want and assuming I’ll be awake!) Normal service will be resumed, erm, at some point… Continue reading Calling John and Dimitri …

The afternoon went a bit pear-shaped, but first of all, something I forgot to mention from the Round Table session. Greg pointed out that Oracle run all of their customer benchmarks on ASM and have done for some time, which re-assured me a little over any potential performance issues and challenged my assumptions that it… Continue reading OOW – Day 4 – The Rest

Some flesh on the bones ….

The final day. I didn’t wake up until 5 and had a stack of emails relating to the performance problem I’m discussing at the moment. Once I’d got through those, I bumped into APC checking out of the hotel. He’ll be on his way to the airport now. I have to offer him a big… Continue reading OOW Day 5

Waiting for Larry’s Keynote to start

I typed up the last blog whilst waiting for Tom Kyte’s No Slide Zone presentation, which I was pleased to get into by being there so early. (Tim Hall walked in later, looking reasonably well in light of the night he had!) I suppose most of the 11g New Features will be familiar by now… Continue reading OOW Day 3 – The afternoon

I think that’s what they call it in the press. I tend to be on the receiving end of humorous flak at my current site about my Oracle ACE status, including jokes about people stroking the fleece and the like. It’s just the Scottish sense of humour, I suppose 😉 Anyway, I’d pledged to try… Continue reading The Money Shot

OK, so I know I said Cuddly Toys wouldn’t be appearing on the Oracle blog any more, but in the other place, but this is directly related to the conference. It occurred to me as I was walking around the exhibition halls that I should try to use my influence as a blogger, which appears… Continue reading The Monkey Shot