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Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata Executive Dinner
I spoke at an Oracle marketing event in San Antonio last night. Here is a link to the promotional page for the event (it will probably disappear soon). I promised to make a copy of my slides available...
View ArticleOracle Open World 2011 – Suggest a Session
Well my lone abstract submission didn’t get selected at Open World this year. But apparently they have a second chance system where you can “Suggest a Session” and users can vote on which papers they’d...
View ArticleExadata Virtual Conference
I will be participating in an Exadata Virtual Conference which has been organized by Tanel Poder on August 3rd and 4th. This conference will follow the same format as the one Tanel and I did last year...
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Embarcadero Performance Panel
Karen Morton, Cary MIllsap and I will be participating in a on-line panel discussion about Oracle Performance on July 28th. Since we all worked together in the past we thought it would be a fun to...
View ArticleUpcoming Speaking Engagements
I’ll be speaking at a couple of conferences over the next month or so. Here’s the schedule: February 16th, in Denver at RMOUG Training Days 2012 - Topic: DIY Exadata February 23rd, in Redwood Shores at...
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Hotsos Symposium 2012
It’s almost time for Hotsos’s 10th annual Symposium. This year’s conference will be held March 4 – 8 in Irving, Texas. The Hotsos Symposium is probably the best performance oriented Oracle conferences...
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Exadoop
We started on an interesting mad scientist kind of project a couple of days ago. One of our long time customers bought an Exadata last month. They went live with one system last week and are in the...
View ArticleWhere’s Waldo
Just a quick update on my speaking schedule for the rest of the year (I hope this is all). Big Data Technology Briefing – Texas Rangers Stadium (Arlington, TX) – 8/23/12 I’ll be talking about Hadoopie...
View ArticleE4 Wrap Up – Part II – Cary Millsap Interview
The 2012 Enkitec Extreme Exadata Expo is behind us now. Our video guy (Bob) has been working diligently for the last week or so to get the presentations edited. They will be made available to the...
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Hotsos Symposium 2013
Just a quick note to let you know I’ll be speaking at the Hotsos Symposium in March in Dallas. I’ve attended every year for the past 6 or 7 years and spoken at several of them. It has consistently been...
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E4 2013 – Exadata Conference Call for Papers Closing
Just a quick note to remind you that the call for papers for E4 is closing in a few days (on April 30). So if you have anything you think is interesting related to Exadata that you’d like to share...
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12c Adaptive Optimization
Since everyone seems to be all twitterpated about Oracle Database 12c this week, I thought I’d post a quick note to let you know that the slides from the presentation on 12c Adaptive Optimization I did...
View ArticleOOW 2014 Schedule
Here’s a quick rundown of places I plan to be during the week. Date/Time Title Description Sunday 9/28/14 3:30 Expert Oracle Exadata: Then and Now [UGF6626] I’ll be participating in the Exadata Then...
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Dallas Oracle Users Group Performance Meetup
I spoke at a one day DOUG meeting yesterday. It was pretty cool. Very small intimate group of about 50. The speakers were Nitin Vengurlekar, Charles Kim, Cary Millsap and myself. All are Ace Directors...
View ArticleECO 2014 Slides
Just a quick note that I posted slides for the 2 talks I did at ECO in Raleigh this week: Keynote: Creative Problem Solving (for Oracle Systems) In-Memory In Action (slides by Tanel Poder) :) Great...
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DOUG 2019 Training Days Keynote
Well it only took a week, but I have now uploaded slides from my talk at the Dallas Oracle Users Group Training Days. Let me know if you have any questions, comments or doubts!
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RMOUG Training Days 2023 Presentation – Oracle Databases in a Multicloud World
I did a presentation a couple of weeks ago at the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days about Multicloud, specifically about combining OCI and Google Cloud. The focus of the talk was showing...
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