Day 2 started a little late for me and I missed the first block of speakers. Sorry Alex!
The first session of the day for me was Franck Pachot with “Microservices : Get rid of your DBA and send the DB into Burnout”. The session started with a rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday” for Franck. My bad summary of the session would be, pick the right tool and the right approach for the job. The “obvious” solution for the job is not always so obvious. One size doesn’t fit all!
After that it was keynote time with Gurmeet Goindi and Maria (questions at the end) Colgan. Gurmeet started off with the key features of Exadata past, present and future. Maria continued with some of the optimiser goodness coming in “a future release”.
Next up was Roger McNicol with “Understanding Oracle External Tables”. This was one of those sessions where I sat smugly thinking, “I knew that”, until he started talking about some stuff I didn’t have a clue about. I’ll check out some of this stuff when I get home and sneak it into some existing articles, then act superior, like I always knew it. 🙂
The next session was “REST enabling your Oracle database with Oracle REST Data Services” by Jeff Smith. Which Jeff Smith? That Jeff Smith! I’ve seen Jeff do this talk before, but he’s reworked his demos, so I wanted to see the new and improved version, and I was the next speaker in this room so… 🙂
I was the next speaker, with my session, “Multitenant : What’s new in Oracle Database 18c and 12.2”. There is a lot of good stuff in the Multitentant architecture now. All my articles on the subject are listed here. I think the session went OK, but I did overrun. Sorry!
From there I popped out with some folks for a farewell drink, then it was off to catch my plane. I ended up on the same train as Maria. When we got to the airport I tried to get her case off the luggage rack and it destroyed my hand. For a totally accurate depiction of what happened, check out the “I’ve got his pig sticker” scene from Blade.
I had about 2 hours before my plane left, so I got out the laptop and played catch-up on life. We boarded about 10 minutes late, and then sat on the plane for about 35 minutes before we left. The flight was fine and we gained back a little time on the way. I got a taxi home and that was the end of the trip!
Thanks to everyone at OBUG for inviting me to come and play. Thanks to the attendees and speakers for making the event happen. This was a self-funded trip, but I’d like to thank the Oracle ACE Program and Groundbreaker Ambassadors Program for allowing me to fly the flag.
Cheers
Tim…
Also, waffles!
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