I'm getting all geared up for the upcoming and prestigious DOAG 2018 conference next week (November 20-23) in Nuremburg, DE. The folks at DOAG patiently reminded me year in and year out since I became an ACE Director to attend, but since DOAG almost always lines up with American Thanksgiving, I demurred. Not this year! … Continue reading It’s almost Winter. Time for deep learning at DOAG 2018!
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UKOUG Tech Days 2018: Yule Want to See My Presos in Liverpool!
For the first time ever, I will be speaking at UKOUG Tech Days this coming December 5-8 in Liverpool, UK. I've wanted to carve out enough time to visit England during the Christmas holiday season ever since I explored the eastern edge of the UK a few years back, so it's serendipitous that I'll be … Continue reading UKOUG Tech Days 2018: Yule Want to See My Presos in Liverpool!
2018 Is Halfway Gone … But Not Forgotten!
It's hard to believe that 2018 is half over already. I've had an incredibly busy six months traveling to and speaking at Oracle user groups events and conferences across the country, so it's been another exhilarating six months for me ... and that means you all have access to some great collateral and code! I've … Continue reading 2018 Is Halfway Gone … But Not Forgotten!
Este Agosto, No Te Pierdas Mis Sesiones En LAOUC!
I am embarrassed to admit that I've ignored my dear colleagues just a few thousand kilometres to the south of Chicago for much too long ... so it is a great honor to return to South America as part of the 2018 Latin American Oracle User Group (LAOUC) Developer Community Tour conference series this coming … Continue reading Este Agosto, No Te Pierdas Mis Sesiones En LAOUC!
Oracle DBAs Weigh In: Fear Not the Autonomous Database!
I've had the honor to share a page in Fortune Voice with some of my most esteemed and respected colleagues - including Michelle Malcher, Nitin Vengurlekar, Russ Lowenthal, and Dan Vlamis - on the topic of what the Oracle Autonomous Database (or what I like to call AuDB) means for Oracle DBAs as they continue to … Continue reading Oracle DBAs Weigh In: Fear Not the Autonomous Database!
2017 Is [Almost] a Wrap: Sample Code, Ruminations, & Portents for 2018
2017 has been an incredibly busy year! Besides speaking at half a dozen different Regional Oracle User Groups this year, I co-authored two new books, experimented in depth with Oracle Public Cloud, and helped my latest employer, ViON Corporation, build out their Oracle Gold partnership from the ground up, one customer at a time. It's … Continue reading 2017 Is [Almost] a Wrap: Sample Code, Ruminations, & Portents for 2018
SANGAM17: India, Here I Come At Last
At the request of my colleagues in India - especially the ever-persistent Oracle ACE Director Sai Janakiram - I have at last found a window of time during which I can attend the annual SANGAM17 event in Hyderabad. (It helped that Sai apparently recruited our fellow ACE Director Bjoern Rost to call me out as … Continue reading SANGAM17: India, Here I Come At Last
My Next Book: Oracle Database 12c Release 2 Testing Tools and Techniques for Performance Stability
I am excited to announce the pre-release of my third co-authored book in as many years: Oracle Database 12c Release 2 Testing Tools and Techniques for Performance Stability. My extremely talented and loquacious co-authors include database performance benchmarking expert and Oracle ACE Dr. Bert Scalzo, and Oracle ACE Director Deiby Gomez, the youngest Oracle ACE … Continue reading My Next Book: Oracle Database 12c Release 2 Testing Tools and Techniques for Performance Stability
Is the Future of Oracle DBAs Cloudy, or Brighter Than Ever?
So you are your company's newest (or oldest) Oracle DBA, and that means you've just finished getting back up to speed after the 2016 holiday season (which probably meant scads of patches and upgrades to your systems while everyone else was enjoying eggnog with their families). You've spent your spare time between crises to be … Continue reading Is the Future of Oracle DBAs Cloudy, or Brighter Than Ever?
Forestall Failure Before You Upgrade With Oracle 12cR1 RAT
The second part of my two-part series entitled Regression Analyzed, Tout de Suite: Leveraging Oracle 12c Database Real Application Testing (RAT) Suite has just been published in IOUG SELECT Journal's 4th Quarter 2016 edition. This part of the article series show how I leveraged RAT's Database Replay features to evaluate Oracle Database 12.1.0.2's Database In-Memory … Continue reading Forestall Failure Before You Upgrade With Oracle 12cR1 RAT