Sessions:
Kevin Closson cancelled his session, which was a bummer, but life goes on.
Oracle Optimizer Roundtable: Some members of the optimizer team answered the audience questions.
Real-World Database Performance Roundtable: Members of this group answered questions from the audience on a variety of performance related subjects.
The roundtable sessions were pretty cool, but it feels a little like [...]
Wednesday was a slash and burn day for me. I woke up and decided I couldn’t cope with any more sessions so I ditched the lot. Some of the RAC ones looked really cool, but I just couldn’t drag myself out of the seat to go to them. Instead I went to the OTN lounge [...]
Some of the data warehousing and Exadata presentations have talked about queuing requests to improve performance. They have suggested that using Resource Manager to throttle the number of active requests results in better performance/throughput compared to letting multiple requests all run simultaneously. The Terabyte Hour session yesterday showed an example of this and sure enough, [...]
It was raining quite hard this morning. Fortunately I brought my “Fujitsu Siemens” umbrella from 2 years ago. Debra Lilley was quick to point out the company name change…
Today was another day heavily based around the Unconference in Moscone West. Four of the six presentations I went to today were at the unconference. [...]
Despite all the geek fun, there is a downside to OOW. I for one will be visiting the doctor when I get back to the UK to ask for some Prozac. Why? I’m depressed due to multi-angle-envy. What?
I’ve seen some excellent presenters whose technique is so slick it makes me sick. I’m not talking [...]
I intended to go to some regular sessions, but changed tack and spent the day in Moscone West at the Unconference instead.
Chalk & Talk: The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing (Greg Rahn, Database Performance Engineer, Real-World Performance Group @ Oracle): I’m not a DW guy and I don’t work with Exadata kit, so [...]
The Develop day is my first conference day, but I guess for most people it is Day -1. After purposely leaving my calendar empty, I ended up filling the day quite well.
What Are We Still Doing Wrong? by Tom Kyte: It’s always a pleasure to hear Tom speak. He always has a good balance of [...]
What is this years big OpenWorld announcement?
It’s not Oracle Database 11g Release 2, that’s already been announced and released. It’s not Exadata 2, that’s already announced.
So what can be so important it has relegated 11gR2 and Exadata to pre-OOW announcements, so as not to detract from the real message?
The Oracle Games Console. Working title OBox-720…
Get [...]
I didn’t really take many photos in San Francisco, but here’s two shots I thought were worth posting…
First the DeLorean. Why didn’t Larry pack the Database Machine into one of these?
From OpenWorld
Next, a photo taken on Friday morning, after the conference was over. Believe it ot not, this was the road with the big marquee. [...]
This is the 3rd OpenWorld I’ve attended and I think it was probably the most enjoyable for me so far.
The first year I was more than a little overwhelmed and intimidated by everything. The scale of the event is hard to imagine and being surrounded by people who are at the top of their game [...]