OOW09 Session#4 DBA 11g New Features

For all those who came to my last of my four sessions - 11g New Features for DBAs - I appreciate your taking the time. It was a pleasant surprise to see about 500 people showing up at a lunch time slot on the last day of the conference.

Here is the presentation link. I hope you enjoyed the session and found it useful.

OOW09 Session# 3

I just finished the third of my four presentations - SQL Plan Management. Considering it was at 9 AM on the last day of the conference, right after the big Aerosmith concert, I was expecting a lot less crowd. But, to my pleasant surprise about 150 brave souls turned up. Thank you all. I hope you found it useful.

Here is the presentation material. While you are there, feel free to browse around. And, of course, I will highly appreciate if you could send me your comments, either here or via email - whatever you are comfortable with.

OOW09 My Session#2

Today I delivered the second of my four sessions - "Upgrade Case Study: Database Replay, Snapshot Standby and Plan Baselines".

For those you attended, I thank you very much. Here is the presentation.

OOW09 - RAC Performance Tuning

For all those who came to my session - many, many thanks. There is no better sight for a presenter than to see a roomful of attendees, especially with people standing near the walls. The fire marshal was not amused probably; but I was grateful. The harrowing incident of a blue screen of death on my PC - not just once but twice - just before the presentation was about to start was enough to throw me into a panic mode; but the third time was a charm. It worked. Phew!

You can download the presentation here. And while you are there, look around and download some more of my sessions as well.

Thanks a lot once again. I'm off the keynote now.

ACE Directors Product Briefing '09

One of the most valuable benefits of being an Oracle ACE Director is the briefings by Oracle Product Managers at the Oracle HQ. This year the briefing was on Friday Oct 9th at Oracle conference center rather than the customary Hilton Hotel.

While I was a little disappointed at the coverage of the database topics, I quickly recovered from the alphabet soup that makes up the netherworld of middleware and tools. However, a surprise visit by Thomas Kurian to address questions from the audience about the various product roadmaps was testimonial that Oracle is dead serious about the ACE Program. That proves the commitment Oracle has made for the user community - very heartening.

As always, Vikky Lira and Lillian Buziak did a wonderful job of organizing the event. Considering about 100 ACE Directors from 20+ countries, that is no small task. Perhaps the highlight of the organization was the detailed briefing sheets Lillian prepared for each one individually, down to what car service one takes and when - simply superb! No amount of thanks will be enough. From the bottom of my heart, thank you, Vikky and Lillian. And, thank you Justin Kestelyn - for kicking off and running the event year after year.