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It’s that time of year again. As I think back to the past year with my Oracle-tinted glasses on, it all feels a little depressing for some reason, but I’m not sure why. Maybe it’ll become clearer as I look through the old posts. Actually, as a side-note, although I’ve often expressed my lack of… Continue reading 2007

I’ve been a bit busy recently because I’ve had a rolling 4 week cold (like lots of people in the office – obviously several colds in quick succession), a couple of presentations at UKOUG (where I’m sure the additional beer didn’t help recovery) and then I was in Vienna on Monday and Tuesday this week,… Continue reading Performance on my mind …

(… 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 woke up on the last full day of the conference with a couple of small things left to do on my second presentation. I was confident, though, because it was just a bit of tidying up. Mmmm, that turned out be a mistake 😉 First, though was Graham Wood’s “Cool Stuff with Hot ASHes”.… Continue reading UKOUG Days 4 and 5

“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