Hotsos 2009

This was my sixth Hotsos Symposium as an attendee, my second as a speaker, and this gathering has become something of a spring time ritual for me. Others may look at the temperature, the dogwoods or the daffodils, but Hotsos is how I know spring is here, even if it did snow in Texas last year.I can divide my life as a DBA into three distinct phases:Phase one: I was given a server (DEC Alpha 2100