Conference

Just a couple of weeks away, and my oh my, I am going to be busy at OpenWorld this year!

Of course, first cab off the block will be the OpenWorld swim! It it September and marvellously warm in San Fran, so what better year to come along and meet new friends, and get free coffee and donuts! Just grab a towel from the hotel and head down to the marina!

Register at the link below, so we know how many donuts to buy!!!

Yes indeed! Now that the dates and times are available for OpenWorld 2019, then it is naturally time for the best data searching, filtering and analysis tool on the planet to step up to the plate, enter the fray and …. hmmm… I’ve run out of metaphors

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Yeah yeah I know. What kind of dufus cut-pastes a giant image into their blog post. That would be ….. me

But the reality is, there is just soooooo much going on this year on the Sunday before the “official” start of the Kscope conference, it was too hard to condense it into a few sentences. So I just dumped the image from the website, but you can read about it here.

It’s my first Kscope and it will be blast to be running a day of high quality but dirt cheap learning with Maria, Jeff, Steven and Blaine.

I wanted to do a write-up for the APEX Connect conference that happened in Bonn, Germany, a few days ago, as it was a slightly different conference than I normally go to and a slightly different experience for me.

In my 2019 talks, a lot of performance stuff for DBA and Developers:

The co-location of data and code, in present and future (like the MLE engine running JavaScript or Python in the database)

The most relevant statistics gathering in the 12.2 database (from 12cR2, 18c, 19c)

A different view on Join Methods by tracing the internal functions.

The Riga Dev Days in Latvia:

Riga Dev Days | Tech conference and the annual meeting point for developers in Baltic States.

Where I talk about microservices, and data/code co-location

What follow is just my opinion….Well duh, it’s a blog, of course it’s just my opinion, but I’ll try back up my rantings and pontificating with some reasoned arguments. Whether at the end of it, you still call my claims total BS is of course entirely within your rights and your opinion

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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: