{"id":1647,"date":"2013-08-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2013-08-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T12:00:00","slug":"advert-cary-millsap-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/advert-cary-millsap-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Advert: Cary Millsap in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested in Oracle performance (or system performance in general) and you don&#8217;t know who <a href=\"http:\/\/method-r.com\/component\/content\/article\/58-biographies\/70-cary-millsap\">Cary Millsap<\/a> is then I&#8217;m surprised. If you&#8217;ve never read &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596005276\">Optimizing Oracle Performance<\/a>&#8216;, then I think you should.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, and this isn&#8217;t to diminish Cary&#8217;s other work in any way, if you&#8217;ve never had the pleasure of hearing Cary explain complex performance topics in a way that makes them fun and easy to understand then you really are missing something special.<\/p>\n<p>Well now&#8217;s your chance to put this right. Although it&#8217;s pretty easy to hear Cary speaking at one of the many user group conferences he pops up at over the pond, the chance to hear him speak for a whole day in the UK is pretty rare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/methodr20110908.eventbrite.com\/\">Sign up<\/a>. I know training budgets are tight at the moment, but I bet you won&#8217;t regret it!<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and in case you think this is just rampant advertising for a friend, you should see the number of mails I get these days asking me to review things I don&#8217;t have the slightest interest in, in the hope I&#8217;ll blog about them. I only blog about things I think are worth my and your time &#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested in Oracle performance (or system performance in general) and you don&#8217;t know who Cary Millsap is then I&#8217;m surprised. If you&#8217;ve never read &#8216;Optimizing Oracle Performance&#8216;, then I think you should. Most of all, and this isn&#8217;t to diminish Cary&#8217;s other work in any way, if you&#8217;ve never had the pleasure of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/advert-cary-millsap-in-london\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advert: Cary Millsap in London<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1648,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/mastering-oracle-trace-data-seminar-with-cary-millsap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1647,"position":0},"title":"Mastering Oracle Trace Data seminar with Cary Millsap","date":"September 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned before, Cary Millsap was over in Europe recently and included a short trip to London to deliver his 1-day Mastering Oracle Trace Data seminar. 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