UKOUG 2011: Days 1 – 3…

I went to lots of good presentations over the three days.

Day 1:

• SQL Tuning – Kyle Hailey
• Clonedb – Me (not counting myself in the “good” list, just placing myself in the timetable)
• OakTable Talks
• Emerging Trends in RAC – Julian Dyke
• Upgrading your Cluster to 11gR2 – Martin Bach
• Learning about life through business and software – Cary Millsap

Day 2:

• NFS Tuning – Kyle Hailey
• OakTable Talks
• RAC Attack – Organized by Jeremy Schneider (I spent the rest of the day helping out here)

Day 3:

• About Multiblock reads – Frits Hoogland
• OakTable Talks
• Simulating workloads with RAT and Simora – James Morle
• What shape is your data? – Niall Litchfield

There were of course many other talks, but when you do as many conferences as me you tend to have seen many of them already. Added to that, I got into interesting conversations with people and ended missing sessions because of that.

I went to the OakTable lunchtime talks each day. I think these were my favorite presentations of all. Each day was made up of five 10 minute slots. Quick, casual and no slides. Very entertaining. I hope they happen every year.

The days were incredibly long, as proved by my parking bills. The first day battered me and it was a matter of survival from that point on.

Thanks very much to everyone involved in organization of the event. That’s my first UKOUG as a presenter. Let’s hope it’s not the last.

Cheers

Tim…