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I’m on track to fly home tomorrow, March 11th after nine days and three events.  I’m pretty exhausted and just ready to go home and catch up on some sleep…:)

I started out last weekend in Victoria BC and was thrilled to be on this emerald island of the Pacific Northwest.  British Columbia is gorgeous as it is, but Victoria is a special place that quickly became one of my favorite places in the world.

I wanted to go to Hotsos Symposium for quite some time, having heard so many great topics from there for years. And every time I was a bit lazy to think about what I can talk about. Apparently I thought that everything I know is well covered elsewhere, so why would I be accepted. Plus all these complexities of budget, getting a visa, travel arrangements, jet lag, and personal matters in between. Last year, when call for papers was still open, I realized that there’s a good chance I can make it to Hotsos in 2016: I had a budget, visa is a doable thing, and most importantly I knew I had a topic to talk about which most likely will not be in competition with other speakers.

This presentation was delivered at the Hotsos Symposium 2014 and at the Utah Oracle Users Group (UTOUG) Training Days 2014.

It describes a PL/SQL package that I put together called “ash_xplan.sql” which can be used to display real-time information about a SQL statement currently executing.  This package combines information from the Active Session History (V$ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY) or “ASH” view with information from the DBMS_XPLAN package.

As of Oracle12c v12.1, nothing in Oracle displays elapsed time while the SQL statement is still executing, not even SQL Monitor.

The source code for the “ash_xplan.sql” script is on the Scripts page of this website, along with sample spooled output.

I’m going to Hotsos 2016 soon for the first time. I’ll speak about Middleware and the issues I see commonly everywhere. It took me quite some time to prepare for this trip: budget, visa, and, most importantly, presentation – required at least 120 hours of my time (which is a lot). In fact presentation is still work in progress and I hope to finish it just before March 8 when I’m presenting. I feel a bit nervous about my topic since the conference is all about Database Performance, the quality of presentations is always high and they are super technical, while I’m planning to have a light talk focused not on the Database mainly – just my rants on the things done wrong I usually see in the wild everywhere. It’s not something on the cutting edge, and some of my notes are so bloody old.

Hierbij nog dank voor allen die aanwezig waren bij de weer gevulde, informatieve & gezellige avond tijdens “Hotsos Revisited 2013″. Wij presentatoren hebben genoten van het ambiance. Hier ook nog voor degenen die graag het nog een keer willen nalezen het presentatie materiaal van Toon, Jacco, Gerwin, Frits en mij… Presentatie materiaal in alfabetische volgorde: …

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Hereby, for those who want another look or for people to share, my presentation content “Creating Structure in Unstructured Data” given during the Hotsos 2013 Symposium on Monday morning. HTH Marco Hotsos 2013 – Creating Structure in Unstructured Data from Marco Gralike

It has been a while that I have been attending Hotsos, although that is how it feels. In 2011 I flew to Hotsos to see, among others presentations from Maria Colgan, but I ended up being sick the whole week while learning on my hotel room to enjoy American TV. In 2012 I skipped Hotsos …

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Van 3 tot en met 7 maart vindt in Irving, Texas, het internationale Oracle Performance Symposium Hotsos plaats. Dit jaar belooft het symposium een garantstelling voor inhoudelijk hoogstaande presentaties en discussies, want naast presentaties van Tom Kyte, Cary Millsap, Maria Colgan en Steven Feuerstein over performance, worden er ook onderwerpen behandeld zoals Big Data, noSQL, …

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