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Daily Archives Tuesday, April 2008
Collaborate Days 1 and 2
So, I blogged Sunday’s events up to the ACE Dinner, organized by Vikki Lira and held at Panzano in downtown Denver.
Paul and I were graciously invited to mix and mingle with the ACEs and ACE Directors. Dan, Matt, Ameed and Floyd were all there. Plus, I got to meet Bex, Linda, Steven, John, George, Debra [...]
Tracking The Competition, Socially
Yesterday in Denver, Jake and I had lunch with a few nice folks from NewsGator, one of which was Jeff Nolan. As you may know, Jeff writes Venture Cronicles. In friendfeed, I noticed that Jeff had posted to his blog, so I went to have a read and ended up reading several posts. [...]
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A Few Good Things About Prague
Well, that’s me finished the first of the seminars for Oracle and I’m sitting in a ground-side bar at Prague airport with cigarette in hand(1) and Czech lager on the table(2).
As usual with any teaching work, it was tiring, challenging and thoroughly rewarding. I won’t say whether I think it went well or not because, although only I can know what I think were the good and bad bits, what I think isn’t the most important view. Hopefully the attendees enjoyed it and will suggest improvements if they didn’t, but I can say that I enjoyed it as much as I expected and the attendees were smart and friendly(3). They even gave in to my request for a quick photo - not that I gave them much choice 
(and this time I have a slight excuse for the bad photos - they were taken very quickly with my phone as we were getting ready to leave)
The Oracle Czech people couldn’t have been more helpful too(4), so thanks to Martin, Petra and the others who were always on hand to help out. (God, this is starting to sound like an Oscar acceptance speech, but I appreciate the help.)
They also have much bigger cuddly toys in the Oracle Czech offices(5)!
I only started talking about cuddly toys right at the end of the course. By that stage it was difficult to explain, but what can I say about this perfect gift from one of Oracle’s local pre-sales guys.
Of course, with my terrible track record for names, I can remember hardly any of the names of the people I met. Perhaps he’ll leave a comment.
I’m just kidding about the blog title, of course. I simply can’t concentrate on anything properly when I’m teaching so, apart from a quick stroll around Wenceslas Square (a cliche, I know), I did nothing else. I’m sure there are many more good things about Prague if I’d had more time to investigate but I liked the feel of the city so I’m looking forward to going back and spending some proper time there with Mads.
But now it’s time for my flight ….
P.S. I thought I’d better post this on the Oracle blog, where this week’s attendees are more likely to find it.
UKOUG 2008 Call for Papers deadline
Well, I see Tom Kyte got there first, but just to add something to the reminders about the UKOUG Call for Papers, I’m reliably informed that the user group would like to see some more presentations for Beginner and Intermediate levels this year.
With that in mind, I’m going to submit at least one abstract this year - "Oracle Performance for Beginners". I might chuck another in too, we’ll see. Anyway, sign up here - you won’t regret it, I promise you.
(With any luck, we’ll be able to drag Andy C away from his latest consulting engagement …)
Collaborate’08 Day 1
Well, that’s Day 1 of Collaborate’08 over and I think I’ve just about got over the jet lag. I’m up early again - today it’s 6am - but at least I’m not suffering from altitude sickness like a couple of people I bumped in to. We’re actually a mile above sea-level in Denver which means [...]
UKOUG Call for papers…
The UKOUG call for papers has been announced. This is an event I’ve personally attended every year now since 2003. I’ve met and made some very good friends at this conference. I strongly recommend it as a technical forum. It is a large but not overwhelming large event - with lots of technical content (and a bit of fun as well).
I’ve written in the past about participating in the user community - this is the perfect chance. Everyone has something useful to contribute - everyone does.
So, get on the OTHER SIDE of the podium. Yes, it can be scary, but it is definitely worth the fear factor long term.
Oracle Connections to Non-Oracle Databases
The solution is called Heterogeneous Services Generic Connectivity. I usually just call it HS links. Basically, you
configure an ODBC data source and then create a database link against that source. You can run DML against the source
just as you would against an Oracle database.