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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.

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

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

Thanks to Frits Hoogland, here are some better pictures of the appreciation event. See, it was me who did all the hard work really! Not really, you can see Marco is standing in another queue, waiting to help. You can almost imagine this bear’s thoughts. ‘Mmmm, so this is where my future lies, with a… Continue reading Rodney Update

I noticed via H.Tonguç Yılmaz’s blog that some of the presentation slides have started to appear. 1) Go to http://www28.cplan.com/cc208/login.jsp 2) Username/Password is cboracle/oraclec6 (Updated later – actually, maybe this doesn’t work for unregistered attendees yet) 3) Search for sessions 4) Click link in right hand column where the presentation exists 5) You might be… Continue reading OOW 2008 Presentations

I was talking to Cary Millsap last week about the beneficial effect the Symposium has had on the wider community over the past several years. I had a chance to take a look at a paper recently that someone had almost completed for presentation at last year’s Symposium and it reminded me how inspirational it… Continue reading Hotsos Symposium Call for Papers

Well, I was starting to worry that I was completely out of step with the blogosphere, because finally a keynote presentation worth writing about and no-one seems keen, but I’ve only just noticed this quote in Pete Scott’s blog posting. “For strange people like me, people that see the world as moving large amounts of… Continue reading Day 4 – Grumpy Old Man

If Mogens, Anjo and Cary are in the OTN lounge, meeting their (cough) fans, who the hell is looking after The Cave?!