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Just a quick blog post from Wellington New Zealand where we have just wrapped up the 2018 APAC Groundbreakers tour. It was a great way to finish the event with a small but enthusiastic crowd here in New Zealand.

If you are sad and pathetic enthusiastic and interested in content like me, once a large conference like OpenWorld is over, I like to have the content (slides etc ) from not just the sessions I attended, but all of the sessions I could not attend. In fact, I typically would like to have any and all available content, because that is probably the next best thing to attending the conference.

In particular, now that many of the sessions are streamed and/or capture for on-demand replay, either on the OpenWorld site directly, or via the Oracle Developers Youtube channel, the slides can then be viewed along with the presentation that drove them.

The OpenWorld conference is over for another year. It’s always a thrill, albeit a hard-working thrill, to visit San Francisco and be a part of such a huge event.

I’ll have a full wrap up post and video soon, but I wanted to get quick blog post out there so people could get a link to see the slides from my sessions.

See my OpenWorld 2018 content here

To all those people that attended my sessions, thanks for giving up your time. I hope you got lots of benefit out of the content. And as always, if you have any feedback on what you liked, or how I can make the content better for you, please drop me a comment below.

If you’d like me to speak at your local event, please reach out to me on Twitter. I can’t make any promises – these things all depend on scheduling and budgeting, but I’ll always try my best.

LOBs tend to be large. Well duh…it’s right there in the name! “Large Object”. So one of the cool things I like with the SECUREFILE option in recent releases of Oracle Database is the ability to compress LOBs. Here’s a quick demo of that in action:

Well…I’m only planning day 2 of OpenWorld and already I’ve pretty much given up on being able to see all the talks that I want to see The challenge for me will be trying to coax those people that are inside Oracle to give me a synopsis of their talk after the event. That is probably my best hope here.

In any event, if you’re a database person like me, here’s my tips for what I’ll be trying to sneak into on Tuesday.

Tuesday morning

An Insider’s Guide to Oracle Autonomous OLTP Database Cloud [TRN3979]
Maria Colgan, master product manager at Oracle Corporation , Oracle
Robert Greene, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle
Tuesday, Oct 23, 11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3003

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Chris and I will be at OpenWorld next month, so our session details are below, but you can also click on the links below to add entries to your calendar to make sure you don’t miss us. Don’t forget to use the official Schedule Builder to make sure you have booked your spot at our sessions!

If you can’t get to our sessions, you might catch us wandering the halls or at The Hub. Feel free to come and say Hello and talk tech!

See you at OpenWorld!

Calendar ICS files

Tune ANY SQL in 20 minutes (.ics)

Last year, I flexed my technology muscles by building on the fine ground work of Lucas Jellema in using some Node, some REST, and some JSON to extract the full Oracle Openworld speaker catalogue, and then added some JSON parsing in the database, some SQL and slapped a nice helping on Application Express on top of it all, to end up with an Application Express rendition of the Oracle Openworld speaker catalogue.

Here are the conferences where I speak this end of year

Join Methods: Nested Loop, Hash, Sort, Merge, Adaptive

This is an explanation of the join methods, with live demos on very simple cases, reading execution plan statistics, looking at how it is executed. And how to improve the query performance: hints, partitioning, indexing. The goal is to understand, with modern tracing tools (dbms_xplan and SQL Monitoring), the basic core stuff that is involved in all query tuning: the join methods, the estimations that drive the choice between full scan and index access, the transformations that avoid unnecessary joins.

• POUG 2018 September 07, 2018

POUG 2018

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last month or two trying to plan how to navigate a set of visits to the Eastern side of Europe. This might sound a little “My Glamorous Lifestyle” but, as my friend Tim Hall (he who is “Oracle-Base”) has documented in his posts under “my glamorous lifestyle”, doing the Oracle talk circuit often entails lots of hours in airports & stations, travelling with cheap, basic airlines, and sometimes a lot of stress. It is not the “Airport lounge and first class service” some people think it is. Anyway…