OTN Yathra 2014 : Mumbai

 

The Mumbai event took place in the local Oracle office and was attended by a straight technical crowd, which is much easier to present to than a mixed audience. 🙂

In addition to my own talks, I got to see some others too.

  • PS (Sai) Janakiram‘s session on Oracle VirtualBox was interesting. In addition to a general introduction to virtualisation, he did a live demo of VirtualBox, which seemed to capture the attention of the crowd. He also logged into HP’s Cloud service to show how many of the lessons learned from using VirtualBox apply equally well to using a large cloud provider’s service.
  • Aman Sharma‘s session on Oracle 12c Pluggable Databases, was pretty cool. I’ve written articles on the subject, but never presented on it, so it’s always good to see how people approach it. I’m glad he emphasised how the concept of CDB/PDB is fairly simple on the surface, but the impact on your average DBA is massive, which is very much my own feeling.
  • Vijay Sehgal’s session on SQL Tuning Basic was a good introduction to the subject. I find myself continually drawn to these types of sessions, hoping someone will show me “the magic button” that makes it all simpler. 🙂 Not surprisingly, that didn’t happen, but once again it was good to see how someone approaches presenting the subject matter. I’ve only presented this type of material at internal sessions at work.

I had a lot of interaction with the attendees and speakers outside of the sessions, which is actually my favourite bit. 🙂

Thanks to everyone at the Oracle office in Mumbai for making us welcome and thanks to all the attendees for coming to the event. It was a very vocal audience, which makes for really fun sessions.

We left the Oracle office and drove straight to Pune, ready for the next event…

Cheers

Tim…

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DBA, Developer, Author, Trainer.

4 thoughts on “OTN Yathra 2014 : Mumbai”

  1. Tim, I was waiting for this blog entry since early morning today….I hope you are feeling comfortable by now and didn’t have a repeat of Jalandhar Morning….But seriously I was surprised to see you presenting three sessions was having bad health….and to add to it..two session on trot….Hats Off to you….

  2. Navneet: I’m fine now. I think it may have been the lack of sleep during my journey to India that caused it. As soon as the doctor in Jalandhar gave me the injection I was fine, which is why I was able to do the three presentations. 🙂

    Since that event I have been OK. Thank you for your concern. 🙂

    Cheers

    Tim…

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