Two weeks before I mentioned it was hard for me to choose which sessions to attend, now things are a lot more clear, for me at least :)
And hope this document assists you as well; OLAP sessions at Open World 2008
September 12, 2008
August 20, 2008
Oracle Openworld 2008 Community Events
There will be special additional events for Oracle customers during Openworld which will provide important opportunities to come together and exchange information.
Sunday, Sep 21 – Blogger Meet-up
Monday, Sep 22 – OTN Night
Tuesday, Sep 23 – Terabyte Club Appreciation Dinner(not sure but ACE Dinner also I guess)
Wednesday, Sep 24 – Appreciation Event
Thursday, Sep 25 – Terabyte Club General Meeting
For example we are a member of the Oracle Data Warehouse Terabyte Club Program and I am very excited for the discussions on general Data Warehouse market trends, member customer case study presentations, functionality requests, future Oracle DW products’ directions and detailed reviews of the key announcements including the most exciting DW-related announcements made during OpenWorld 2008 on Thursday’s meeting.
Yes, there will be at least one important announcement at OOW this year which I am aware of for a while now, which of course I can not write on for now. As a result not only the day times but also the nights will be full during OOW 2008 :)
Oracle OpenWorld and Oracle Develop 2008, Where the Community Rules
September 21-25, Moscone Center, San Francisco
August 16, 2008
How to choose which sessions to attend at Oracle OpenWorld 2008?
My OOW profile has been updated to include access to Oracle Develop. So I begin to use the schedule builder to select my OOW 2008 sessions.
There are a lot of interesting sessions, so I decided to just go over just the Application Development and Datawarehousing groups to narrow my possible interested sessions, but still it was hard for me to choose several session over their alternatives. Just a small note here, creating a personal schedule does not guarantee those session access and it is advised to arrive at least 10 minutes before session start time to ensure the access.
I still will be needing some additional slots for the Unconference tradition, 11g Exam Cram Session at OCP Lounge, ACE hours at OTN Lounge and of course I want to meet with some of my friends from Oracle Commmunity. I feel like Tom Cruise at Mission Impossible but I am still opened for other session advises :)
Sunday, Sep 21
08:30-10:00 Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Middleware (IOUG)
10:00-11:30 Oracle Application Express SIG: Ask the Experts (IOUG)
11:45-12:45 Using Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Application Express to Change Business Practices and Realize ROI
13:00-14:30 Oracle Database Vault for SAP (IOUG)
14:30-15:30 Efficient Schema Design
15:30-17:00 OCP Lounge - ORACLE DATABASE 11G EXAM CRAM
Monday, Sep 22
09:00-10:00 UNCONFERENCE - Oracle Application Express Test Drive for DBAs and PL/SQL Developers (Lead: H.Tonguç Yılmaz)
10:00-11:00 UNCONFERENCE - Capacity Planning on Oracle DB (Ignacio Ruiz)
11:30-12:30 Growing a Data Warehouse to 50 Terabytes and Beyond
13:00-14:00 Faster and Smarter Data Warehouses with Oracle Database 11g (IOUG)
14:30-15:30 Data Warehousing at 300 Terabytes on Oracle Real Application Clusters
16:00-17:00 Best Practices for Deploying a Data Warehouse on Oracle Database 11g
17:30-18:30 Web 2.0 Development with Oracle Application Express
Tuesday, Sep 23
09:00-10:00 Inside Oracle Database 11g Optimizer: Removing the Mystery
10:00-11:00 UNCONFERENCE - Release 12 Apps DBA 101 (Lead: John Stouffer)
11:30-12:30 Advanced Performance Diagnostics: What the GUI Doesn’t Tell You
13:00-14:00 Oracle Database 11g: Stories from a Data Warehouse Implementation
14:00-15:00 UNCONFERENCE - How to use native database REST Web Services in Oracle 11g by Marcelo F. Ochoa
14:00-15:00 UNCONFERENCE - So, You Want To Be An Oracle ACE? by Dan Norris
17:00-18:00 Practical Data Warehouse Experiences with Oracle Database 11g
Wednesday, Sep 24
09:00-10:00 Successfully Developing and Integrating Applications in Oracle Application Express in Oracle E-Business Suite
11:30-12:30 Oracle Optimized Warehouse Solutions for Sun: Accelerate Your Data Warehouse Implementation
13:00-14:00 The Oracle Database 11g Data Warehouse Toolkit (IOUG)
14:30-16:30 Keynote: Larry Ellison, Oracle and Mark Hurd, HP
16:00-17:00 UNCONFERENCE - App Server basics for the DBA (Lead: Hans Forbrich)
17:00-18:00 Building Commercial Software-as-a-Service Applications with Oracle Application Express
Thursday, Sep 25
09:00-10:00 Dispelling Myths About Oracle Application Express (IOUG)
11:00-12:00 OTN Lounge - Oracle ACE Office Hours in the OTN Lounge
12:00-13:00 Oracle's New Database Accelerator: Query Processing Revolutionized
13:30-14:30 Oracle Business Intelligence Strategy for the Data-Warehouse-Enabled Enterprise
15:00-16:00 Oracle Real Application Clusters and QLogic InfiniBand: Yahoo! Large-Scale Data Warehouse
Very short time left now, I will try to do my best to have the best at this beatiful city and event and hope to meet you there. :)
ps: Recently I saw that Arup Nanda has started blogging, after reading his OTN and Oracle Magazine articles this is a great news for me. http://arup.blogspot.com/
another ps: OTN at Oracle OpenWorld: A Condensed Guide
Oracle Develop
September 21-23, San Francisco Marriott
OTN Lounge
Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m., September 21-25, Moscone West, Level 3
Oracle OpenWorld Unconference
Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m., September 21-25, Moscone West, Level 3
OTN Night
7:30-11 p.m., September 22, San Francisco Hilton
August 12, 2008
Oracle Open World 2008 -ORACLE DATABASE 11G EXAM CRAM CONFIRMATION-
After reading this post on Oracle Certification Blog I decided to try my chance and it did work for me, I have been confirmed for the FREE OCP Oracle Database 11g New Features for Administrators Exam Cram Session at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco.(Only confirmed attendees will be allowed into this special Oracle University event)
Until now I didn’t do anything special for preparation and I won’t do anything more than just reading blog and forum posts related to 11g new features. Because I want to test if I can make it or not without any special activity but just consuming the FREE material around me, at the end this is a free session and it is a good opportunity to test this approach I guess. :)
These are the resources I have been reading until now.
* http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/oracle-database-11g-top-features/index.html
* http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/Articles11g.php
* http://tonguc.wordpress.com/category/oracle-11g-new-features/
Also I will be around The OCP Lounge, a full service lounge including space for informal meetings exclusively for Oracle Certified Professionals and Masters only, ouuu :)
Many thanks goes to the Oracle University for both activities.
1Z0_050 – Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators
Duration: 105 minutes
Number of Questions: 84
Passing Score: 61%
July 24, 2008
I registered for Oracle OpenWorld 2008 this morning
It is a long way to SF and after my last participation at 99 Oracle community changed and grew a lot, at those times there were no community at all, it was just Tom Kyte and Steven Feuerstein I guess :)P
Forums and blogs developed an important community recently, also Siebel and BEA kind of other giant communities are now a part. So I guess it will be like a Fenerbahçe – Galatasaray derby game there, I still have hopes to meet some blogger friends at OTN Night or Lounge, I will wear my Fenerbahçe t-shirt so you can catch me easily if you want to have a chat, and here is a photo of the t-shirt :)
So my initial steps were;
1. Register for a full conference pass -
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2008/registration.html
2. Subscribe to OOW blog RSS -
http://blogs.oracle.com/oracleopenworld/
3. A quick review of the sessions -
http://www28.cplan.com/cc208/catalog.jsp
ps: Any hotel advices for Oracle bloggers to have more time together? Or any other additional registration for an Oracle blogger?
Oracle #openworld08 blogger meetup event up on OracleCommunity.net feel free to RSVP. Blog post to follow. http://is.gd/13kc
July 15, 2008
ADV: Oracle RAC, ASM, Linux Forum, July 16, Tel Aviv
As Alejandro announced the forum details I also wanted to inform you about my colleague Hüsnü Şensoy’s ’s presentation, Turkcell, 50 TB Data Warehouse on ASM.
December 9, 2007
After UKOUG 2007 – A summary
After UKOUG, I left Birmingham for a small London trip. I met Coşkan there, chatting on working and living conditions in London really motivated me, I have the strong feeling that I should try this for some time. With New York, London was the nearest city which gave me this feeling compared to İstanbul. As Coşkan mentioned of 33 days holiday a year, no over time forcing, the quality of living in London and how much an experienced Oracle/Unix expert may be satisfied there, lots of my friends will sure also be interested I guess. One more advantage of London is that it is just 3,5 hours away from my family and friend. So I am back in my home town, and there is no place like home for me still ;)
Below you will find a brief summary of my best Oracle event experience up to now in my life, UKOUG 2007;
- Openning and Keynotes by Ian Smith and Tom Kyte
- Oracle Spatial, An Introduction by Dominic Giles
- Playing Russion Roulette with Silver Bullets by Jonathan Lewis
- TimesTen: Anatomy of an In-Memory Database by Chris Jenkins
- Partitioning from start to database 11g by Ian Abramson
- Oracle 10g RAC Tuning Tips by Joel Goodman
- Flashback Logging by Julian Dyke
- 11g New Features for DBAs by Thomas Kyte
- Oracle Bloggers Meetup
- What’s new with Oracle Data Guard in 11g by Larry Carpenter
- Performance Metrics using Statspack and Analytical SQL by Daniel Fink
- 11g new features for Developers by Thomas Kyte
- Oracle Security Tools by Pete Finnigan
- Understanding Statspack by Jonathan Lewis
- Scalability with Oracle RAC for DWH Applications by Christian Antognini
- Query Transformations by Joze Senegacnik
- DB Time Performance method by Graham Wood
- Programming real applications with Application Express by Andrew Woodward
- Every Performance Problem Is One Of Two Things by James Morle
- Debugging APEX Applications by John Scott
- Modelling on the cheap by Andrew Clarke
- Real World Database Recovery – An Experience by James Hetherington
- Understanding and Interpreting Deadlocks: What to do with an ORA-00060 by Mark Bobak
- PL/SQL Tracking and Tracing Instrumentation for Developers by Tim Scott
- Extending Security with Oracle Database Vault by Joel Goodman
- Swingbench, When you need a load by Dominic Giles
- Database Bad Practices by Niall Litchfield
- Query Optimizer 11g – What’s new? by Christian Antognini
- How to Make your Oracle Apex Applications Secure by Peter Lorenzo
- Practical Best Programming for PL/SQL Developers(Masterclass) by Steven Feuerstein
- Investigating Oracle(Masterclass) by Julian Dyke
December 7, 2007
UKOUG DAY 4 – The End –
Today in the morning I saw Steven Feuerstein just before the first sessions started. I introduced myself to Steven, we had several emails lately related to Steven’s two days İstanbul seminar in February 2008, it was a quick meet up and I enjoyed to chat Steven very much. You must see him presenting, you do not understand how time passes, Steven is one of the best speakers I have ever seen in my life.
I wanted to attend Jonathan Lewis ’s “The beginners guide to CBO” class as my morning session. What ever the topic is if Jonathan is speaking I believe it is a historical moment and not to be missed, also I was wondering how he would be presenting Optimizer concepts to the beginners since I also do similar presentations each summer to our internees. But just at the entrance after I said good morning to Jonathan he didn’t let me in :) He advised me to choose another presentation and mentioned briefly what he will be talking, mostly the first chapter of his two days seminar which I attended in İstanbul. It was an interesting moment really, but at the end of the day I still felt unhappy that I left and didn’t listen to his presentation :)
Database Bad Practices by Niall Litchfield
And here comes my third great presentation, with very well studied demos he prepared Christian with each slide in his presentation introduced new concepts and questions for me, I enjoyed every second of this session thank you Christian.
Query Optimizer 11g – What’s new? by Christian Antognini
How to Make your Oracle Apex Applications Secure by Peter Lorenzo
Practical Best Programming for PL/SQL Developers(Masterclass) by Steven Feuerstein
Investigating Oracle(Masterclass) by Julian Dyke
So Ukoug 2007 is over, after the event we met Jonathan at the market place near the museum coincidently, I felt lucky to have the chance to thank him personally for such a great independent user group event. I hope some day in Türkiye we also manage to have a user group Troug, just a junior one compared to Ukoug of course :)
For the next year I want and plan to come back of course, but this time I hope as a presenter, with at least one or two case studies I experienced in my company, which soon be Europe’s largest Telco in one country, with this kind of an operation we are in and me working like a fire fighter lately within the company it won’t be a big challenge to come up with some interesting stories I guess ;)
I hope you enjoyed my notes since it took at least an hour for me to prepare them :) And for now this is The End for my Ukoug 2007 adventure.
December 6, 2007
UKOUG DAY 3
Up to now both Birmingham and Ukoug conference were very satisfactory, I enjoyed the first three days very much. After a 30-45 minutes random walk we found at the end of the New Street the St Martin’s Church, a beautiful scene since it is Christmas time, and two books stores near the Church which I will be mining tonight after Ukoug ends. Also as they told me, “Once pubed, never stopped”, this is a reality in fact, and can easily ruin the conference :)
DB Time Performance method by Graham Wood
Programming real applications with Application Express by Andrew Woodward
Every Performance Problem Is One Of Two Things by James Morle
And here comes my second great presentation at Ukoug, John was prepared well and he was excellent during the presentation. Debugging APEX Applications by John Scott
Modelling on the cheap by Andrew Clarke
Real World Database Recovery – An Experience by James Hetherington
Understanding and Interpreting Deadlocks: What to do with an ORA-00060 by Mark Bobak
PL/SQL Tracking and Tracing Instrumentation for Developers by Tim Scott
Extending Security with Oracle Database Vault by Joel Goodman
Swingbench, When you need a load by Dominic Giles After this presentation since I am a PL/SQL dinasour :) I thought this can be done easily within Oracle, why not an open source project based on DBMS_SCHEDULER and APEX technology for inputs of load and reports. Hüsnü has already a loading Oracle series, and maybe there is already some.
After surviving 10 sessions on my third day today it will be a child play I guess :) But because of the long way waiting back to home I plan to post the last day’s notes on this Sunday.
December 5, 2007
UKOUG DAY 2
Today I had the chance to meet and chat with Andrew Clarke(APC@Otn forums) and Dominic Brooks. Also I talked with Julian Dyke and Joze Senegacnik for a while especially on memories from their İstanbul seminars. Ukoug in deed an interesting place to be, when you are walking from one session to another you may see Tom Kyte or Jonathan Lewis walking with you, or you can sit next to Jonathan Lewis in a session and everyone is very opened to meet and chat here.
Different than I planned before, I didn’t attend Cost Based Optimiser Roundtable facilitated by Jonathan Lewis and Harvesting the Advantages of a Database Centric Development Approach by Toon Koppelaars sessions today. It is really tiring to catch up with all sessions, I feel like a Nba All-Star game coach, which one to choose is really an issue. Two short complains I have to make; Hall 1 is the coldest hall I have ever seen, I was afraid of the outside but got cold in Hall 1, ironic :) Also I flew across a continent to see Kyte and Lewis, but during their presentations because of time limitations they cut shortly, so sad, no time constraints for these presenters let them finish please :)
And here are my second day’s sessions’ notes;
What’s new with Oracle Data Guard in 11g by Larry Carpenter
Performance Metrics using Statspack and Analytical SQL by Daniel Fink
11g new features for Developers by Thomas Kyte
Oracle Security Tools by Pete Finnigan
Understanding Statspack by Jonathan Lewis
Scalability with Oracle RAC for DWH Applications by Christian Antognini
Query Transformations by Joze Senegacnik
After the presentations with my colleague Uğur Demirelce, Uğur is one of the two DBAs of Europe’s second largest Telco Oracle datawarehouse, we took a walk to the New Street and bought our train tickets to London for Friday. Unbelievable how this country is expensive, even food and transportation. Since it is Christmas time streets are really fun, we walked through the Library, Museum and Town Hall, photographic scenes are all around.
Wednesday will be another though day, I hope to survive 10 sessions this time, see you tomorrow :)
