OOW Day 3 - The afternoon

I typed up the last blog whilst waiting for Tom Kyte's No Slide Zone presentation, which I was pleased to get into by being there so early. (Tim Hall walked in later, looking reasonably well in light of the night he had!)

I suppose most of the 11g New Features will be familiar by now and the truth is that I was just going to be entertained for an hour. I certainly was. Tom was on fine form and it perked me up a little after *almost* dropping off during one of the morning presentations. Which would have been very embarassing as I'm quite an accomplished snorer!

Then I'd arranged to meet the boss from my current site who is over here looking at governance and compliance issues. He wanted a beer and dragged me round a few exhibition stands to no great effect, so I dragged him up to the OTN lounge to show him where beer *can* be found! We both have pretty busy schedules, so it was just 30 minutes over a bottle, talking about some big changes that are going on in the office at the moment. Nice to meet up with him in a different environment, although I wish he hadn't scheduled it at the same time as Graham Wood was speaking

Mogens Norgaard had set up base camp in Chevy's Tex Mex today, meeting various friends and contacts, so when I got the text, I knew I should pop along there and say hello. He was sitting with Anjo Kolk a newly-shaved Kevin Closson (nice, but it will take me a while to get used to that look. Is he the anti-Tom Kyte?) and various other very smart chaps with names I didn't remember, as usual I'll need to start writing them down. In any case, this was probably the most interesting hour or so I've spent this week because there was tons of interesting chat about cutting edge operational implementations that I'm hardly likely to see in my usual workplace. Some very cool-sounding stuff indeed. There was even an interesting debate about the 200MB/sec per core that I quoted from Andy Mendelsohn's presentation on Monday where most expressed serious doubts about such a high throughput requirement. Maybe around 40% of that would have been closer? In a way I'd like to give more detail, but it would be a poor summary of a long and thought-provoking discussion. Thanks, chaps.

What I really need most of all, though, is at least one quiet and early night by myself, so I'm going to skip the Blogger meet-up and save myself for (cough) Lenny Kravitz. The food had better be good!