A bit of a quieter day today (relatively speaking) sessions-wise.
First off it was Recent Enhancements in Oracle’s Cost Based Optimizer by Jonathan Lewis. I’d really looked forward to this session since I saw it listed in the OpenWorld schedule builder. I like to read the articles that Jonathan has produced in the vain hope that [...]
Another hectic day today, started with -
“Things you think you know” by Tom Kyte
This was (as you would expect) a superb session, extremely well presented and most of the points struck chords with the audience. If you came along to this session hoping to pickup some great little tuning tips you may have left a [...]
Well, I was far too late getting down to the Moscone to catch some of the Keynotes, so today really started for me with a session on “Oracle Application Express, Now and in the Future”. Which was good session for me for a couple of reasons, firstly (and obviously) because of my interests in Apex, [...]
Well it was a great day, it started off with the IOUG Application Express Special Interest Group Meeting (that’s a mouthful, so I’ll refer to it as Apex SIG from now on). Steve Howard chaired the meeting whilst Tony Jedlinski, Doug Gault, Dimitri Gielis and myself were on the roundtable, we spoke about our wishlists [...]
Well my body has really lost track of time now, it’s almost 6am Sunday and I’m wide awake, so I thought I’d describe my first ‘OpenWorld’ day (which was yesterday…saturday).
Dimitri Gielis and I had arranged to go and register for our OpenWorld passes first thing in the morning, to avoid the queues that would be [...]
Or is it Minus 1?
Well, I’ve just arrived at my hotel in San Francisco in preparation for OOW after a reasonably uneventful (but long) journey, for those of you travelling out who are still wondering what to pack (weather-wise), I landed at 1:30pm and it was absolutely gorgeous weather, nice and sunny and around [...]
