Upcoming UKOUG Conference

I always look forward to this time of year as the annual UKOUG conference in Birmingham approaches but this year I think I'm looking forward to it more than ever.

As I'll have delivered both of my own presentations at previous events my slides will be done before I arrive and so, after a nice trip back to Edinburgh on the way, I should be able to relax even more during the social events and make the most of the absolutely top-notch agenda. My only real problems with the agenda are that after my own slots were shuffled around a bit, I'm going to miss other presentations I wanted to see but agenda clashes are inevitable at UKOUG.

Sunday
14:35   Optimizer Statistics - a fresh approach - Connor McDonald
15:30   Statistics Gathering and Histograms - Wolfgang Breitling
16:40   Performance & High Availability Panel Session

Monday
10:00   SQL Tuning - Kyle Hailey
11:05   A Deep Dive into the SQL Monitoring Report - Greg Rahn
12:15   Oracle Optimizer - Upgrading to 11g without pain - Maria Colgan
14:30   Using Ashmon - Wolfgang Breitling
14:30   ADR - John Hallas
15:25   Exadata I/O Resource Management - Marc Fielding
16:35   Adaptive Cursor Sharing - An Introduction - Harald van Breederode
16:35   The DB Time Performance Method (part 1) - Graham Wood and John Beresniewicz
17:45   Performance and Stability with 11g SPM - Me
18:45   Learning about Life through Business and Software - Cary Millsap
19:45   Exhibition Welcome Drinks
20:45   Focus Pubs

Tuesday
10:10   Who's afraid of Analytic Functions? - Alex Nuijten
11:15   Execution Plan Interpretation - Joze Senegacnik
12:25   Instrumentation - Why You Should Care - Cary Millsap
14:40   ASH Outliers - Detecting Unusual Events in ASH - John Beresniewicz
15:35   Can people be identified in the database? - Pete Finnigan
16:40   Beating the Oracle Optimizer - Jonathan Lewis
17:50   Challenges and Chances of the 11g Query Optimizer - Christian Antognini
20:00   Evening social and networking

Wednesday
09:00   Statistics on Partitioned Objects - Me
10:10   About multiblock reads - Frits Hoogland
11:20   Latch Internals in 2011 - Andrey Nikolaev
12:30   PGA Memory Management Revisited - Joze Senegacnik
15:20   Is This The Future of Load & Performance Testing? - Chris Jones
16:15   Transaction Analysis & Diagnosis using Profiling - David Owen

Let's see how many attendees I get at 9:00 on Wednesday morning for a statistics presentation!