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…. in promotion. Not for Miracle the bland pen, or notebook or bouncy ball. Oh, no, tattoos are the future! (Thanks to Tim Hall for modelling it)

Well, 2.5 too, I suppose. I spent most of Monday afternoon ‘networking’. i.e. Sitting around the OTN lounge chatting away to several people I know, most of them the strange old gents who like to complain about things a lot 😉 I did, however, attend Andy Mendelsohn’s General Session, or keynote really. It was the… Continue reading OOW Day 3

Wow, it’s hot and sunny here! I keep forgetting, so I’m still wondering around with a jacket in tow. That’ll be getting dumped at the hotel later. Today’s been a quieter day so far, but no less enjoyable for that. After making a lazy start, I thought I’d check out the initial keynote but was… Continue reading OOW Day 2

I’ll start with a plea to the IOUG (not that they’re likely to listen to anything I have to say). No more 90 minute presentations! Yes, I know that some subjects need longer than others. I know we’re going to a conference to learn and have fun. I know that training courses go on for… Continue reading OOW Day 1.5

… and the first shockingly bad photo on the blog for this conference, too. With some gentle encouragement from Mads, we decided to set up and try Skype video. As well as making it easier and cheaper for us to stay in touch, we’re both finding it weird, fun and reassuring – a completely different… Continue reading Another 2008 Innovation …

Well, I’ve attended my first couple of presentations – Dan Norris’ “Building an Oracle Real Application Clusters Environment on VMWare for Free”. I suppose this is one of those subjects I knew a little about, but I haven’t played with VMWare really enough and I was quite keen to hear Dan speak again. He’s a… Continue reading OOW Day 1

I noticed that the agenda for this year’s conference is online. I was very pleased to have two abstracts accepted but didn’t mention it before now because there was a possibility that I might replace one of the presentations with an alternative. In the end, I’ll be going with the two original abstracts I mentioned… Continue reading UKOUG Agenda Online

In his comment on the last post, John Beresniewicz mentioned the following property of DB CPU :- “… ‘DB time’ fully contains ‘DB CPU’ and both are measured values (which means in particular that ‘DB CPU’ is not inflated by runq time)“ I’d like to talk about the end of that sentence in particular. About… Continue reading Time Matters – DB CPU

I noticed Christian’s blog a few weeks ago and forgot to mention it, but it’s been added to my blog-roll now. His book turned up yesterday and, despite the fact it’s in a long queue of books to read, I’m looking forward to it. A very quick initial glance was quite seductive (if it doesn’t… Continue reading Christian Antognini

[In retrospect, the title of that first blog post might have suited the subject, but doesn’t translate too well for subsequent related blog posts. That was a lack of planning or foresight on my part. These blog posts are tumbling out of my head in a fairly incoherent way. Maybe when they’re finished, I could… Continue reading Time Matters – DB Time