OUG Ireland 2019

Just a quick post to mention OUG Ireland 2019, which is just around the corner. The event is on the 4th-5th of April at the Gresham Hotel, Dublin.

I’ve got one session this year, which is called, “Multitenant : What’s new in Oracle Database 18c & 12c Release 2” on Thursday 4th at 15:10. Bits of 19c are starting to creep into this presentation now too. πŸ™‚

Last year I started with no presentations and ended up with two. This year I’m starting with one, so let’s see what I end up with. πŸ™‚

See you there!

Cheers

Tim…

OBUG Tech Days Belgium 2019 : Day 2

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. πŸ™‚

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… πŸ™‚

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…

OBUG Tech Days Belgium 2019 : Day 1

The day started at my normal wake-up time. My flight wasn’t until 10:50, but I decided the leave for the airport really early to avoid traffic. It makes no difference to me if I’m at home on my laptop, in the airport on my laptop, or at work… πŸ™‚

The only thing of note from the airport was me trying to scan through boarding security with my conference ticket, which of course failed, but they let me through anyway. Interesting…

The flight was scheduled for 75 minutes, but it took about 55 minutes, so we clawed some time back. Once landed and through security I headed off to get a train to Antwerp. The train took about 45 minutes, then it was a 2K walk to the venue, arriving fashionably late for the first day!

I arrived in time to see Frits Hoogland presenting “All about Linux memory usage by the Oracle database”. I’ve seen him present this session before, but I’m so rubbish at the subject, it still felt new. πŸ™‚

From there it was Mike Dietrich presenting “Upgrade your Oracle databases fully unattended with AutoUpgrade”. I had a number of questions for Mike, both in the session and afterwards. From what I can see this features looks like it will be really useful.

Finally I watched Jonathan Lewis with “Why Oracle statistics aren’t enough”, where he showed a number of scenarios where statistics are ignored, leading to “interesting” decisions by the optimizer.

When the talks were done there was a social event with drinks and nibbles. We then went out to get some food, walked half way round the city by mistake, then went back to the hotel to crash!

Cheers

Tim…

OBUG Tech Days Belgium 2019

The BOUG Tech Days 2019 conference is happening on the 7th-8th February, which is Thursday and Friday this week. I see from the Twitter-verse that some people are already there and checking out the city.

I’ll be flying out on Thursday morning, and flying back Friday night, so it’s an overnight stay for me.

The list of speakers is pretty impressive, so it looks like it’s going to be a good one.

See you there!

Cheers

Tim…