Those pesky technical posts are so much more difficult to write, particularly when you realise you're about to confuse two different deadlock issues in the one post! But they're coming soon ... I promise! In the meantime, I should mention some upcoming presentations.
The first is later today and part of the ongoing series of excellent webinars hosted by the good people at
Red Gate Software. This one will be on
SQL Monitoring - by far the most interesting new performance analysis feature in Oracle 11g. I've presented on SQL Mon many times now so, as well as covering the basics and some of the most important features for me personally, I'll try to cover a few of the quirks and annoyances as well. It's such a practical feature that I use almost every working day that I think everyone should know more about it. It's at 4pm UK time on Wednesday and you can register
here. Particularly for my Australian friends ;), Red Gate always records the sessions and the video usually appears very soon afterwards.
In April I'll be attending two of my favourite conferences in the same week - the
Finnish and
Norwegian Oracle User Group seminars, on their respective boats! I'm writing two new presentations for these.
The first is based on the client work I've been doing over the past 6 months or so and is called 'Fast ETL processes using Native Oracle Features'.
This is the type of presentation I haven't done for a while and should be clearly labelled Case Study or User Experiences and I'm a firm believer that its these presentations that really make a User Group conference, not just the deeply techie stuff. It will definitely be slightly technical but will be based on real work, real design requirements, real compromises, real organisational challenges (you get the idea), rather than experimentation. Just to be clear, I still like the latter, but we need some balance here. I'm also quite proud of some of the things the team have achieved in a short period of time, despite those challenges, so want to crow about it a little ;), particularly as I think that other people might be able to pick up on some of the ideas, even as a reminder of just how well Oracle can work when you use it well.
The second is about a subject dear to my heart - ASH Analytics. Although I've done the 'Pretty Pictures' version, (and I still think that is utterly compelling), I'd also like to do a slightly more technical version.
I'm not sure many of you will make it on to two boat cruises in the space of a week (although I'm sure you would be more than welcomed) but maybe I (won't) see some of you later today ...
