{"id":1343,"date":"2007-11-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2007-11-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T12:00:00","slug":"oow2007-and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/11\/oow2007-and-so-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"OOW2007 – and so it begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Damn – lost my wireless connection so having to retype it. Time to prepare blogs outside of the Serendipity Admin interface]<\/p>\n

Despite still feeling spaced out, I managed to have a quick stroll round this morning and attend my first presentation. I can see just how much things have grown since I was last here in 2000. First, I’m sure that Moscone West didn’t exist last time or at least I didn’t attend any presentations there. It’s the location of today’s User Group-sponsored presentations and the Unconference. It’s also where the truly enormous OTN lounge is located. Well it’s a hell of a lot bigger and more plush than the little place they had in 2000!<\/p>\n

Thank goodness I registered yesterday when there were no queues at all 😉<\/p>\n

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The first presentation I attended was Dan Norris’<\/a> ‘High Availability Options for Oracle Database’. It was good and bad from a personal perspective.<\/p>\n

First, the good. Dan’s an extremely listenable, accomplished speaker and his slides were great. There was also a pretty large attentive audience and it was one of the best introductions to the various options I’ve heard, so it’s difficult to mark the presentation down.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that it was far too introductory for me and pitched way below what I already knew. In fact, Dan recognised the danger when he asked how many people were using clusters, saw a lot of hands and said something along the lines of ‘what are you guys doing here?’ I would have preferred to see fewer subjects covered in more depth but in the end, it was my bad choice because the presentation did what it set out to. <\/p>\n

I ended up committing a major behavioural no-no and slipped out of the room at about the hour mark. A 90-minute presentation is a big mistake to make! I waited until people were discussing licensing, though, to try to minimise the disruption. Still, apologies to Dan if it did upset him 🙁<\/p>\n

(Oh, and the question that was raised about licensing is answered very clearly in this handy PDF<\/a> that I’ve linked to before.)<\/p>\n

The weather is much<\/i> better now and too hot for a Scot in a coat, so I came back to my room to drop that off. Fingers crossed for the other presentations this week. I might take a little more care choosing them. (I’m already getting worried about a 90 minute presentation on Parallel
\nExecution in a RAC environment. Maybe I should just read the paper?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Damn – lost my wireless connection so having to retype it. Time to prepare blogs outside of the Serendipity Admin interface] Despite still feeling spaced out, I managed to have a quick stroll round this morning and attend my first presentation. 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