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East Coast Oracle #ECO14 Conference

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Today I am traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina for the East Coast Oracle conference. Very excited to be part of this conference, as I have activities planned for all three days. This is the first time attending and presenting at ECO.

Though I attended OOW14, ECO14 will be the conference after GLOC14 (Great Lakes Oracle Conference – May 2014) where I present.

Monday Nov 3: I am truly excited to help Eric Benner to organize the #RACATTACK event – “RAC Attack Isn’t Just about RAC“. RAC Attack is a wonderful and creative effort by the experts in RAC to get everyone have hands on experience with RAC installation and configuration. This is great. Even if you are not able to make to any of the user group conferences and try out RAC Attack, I encourage you to download the RAC Attack Wiki book and start setting up your RAC on the laptop using Virtual Machine.

Tuesday Nov 4: I am presenting at 3:15 on “Flashback Instead of Restore… Save Time and Be a Hero!”. Here I will be taking about the various flashback features of the database since 9i and how a developer, power user or DBA can retrieve past state of data (table) without much recovery effort. Though this presentation was very late addition due to a cancellation, I am sure I will have something for you no matter what your role is – power user, developer, DBA or Manager!

Wednesday Nov 5: I will be presenting right after the keynote by Floyd Teter on “Lesser Known New Features of Oracle Database 12c“. Though I titled it “new features”, Oracle 12c was released over a year ago, so most people are familiar with the top features of 12c. I will be concentrating on the changes and quick benefits you as an 11g DBA can take from upgrading to 12c. You might also take home a copy of my “OCA: Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certified Associate Study Guide: Exams 1Z0-061 and 1Z0-062” book!

The timing of my article in North California Oracle User Group (NoCOUG) Journal is perfect, where I discussed few of the Oracle Database 12c features. The session on Wed will be talking about a lot more!

There are several great presentations in the agenda. Please review the list of presentations here… If you are in the North Carolina neighborhood, do not miss the opportunity to listen to many great speakers.

The conference registration and agenda are available at https://www.eastcoastoracle.org

I am also excited and happy that OneNeck is sponsoring the event and is an exhibitor!

See you in Raleigh!

 

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Oracle Open World 14 – A Diary

I had the opportunity to attend this year Open World conference in San Francisco. This was my 7th open world and each year my excitement only goes up. And, this year was special – first conference as Oracle ACE. I am thankful to Oracle Publishers Seminar (+ Oracle ACE program) and OneNeck IT for giving me the opportunity.

Sunday:

Sunday is the first day of conference and was eventful for me. (Oh forgot, I got upgraded to business class by American on 767 plane, so the day started really good).

Reached just before noon at the conference, and went straight to the OTN lounge to meet the RAC Attack Ninjas. Though I went to help, I actually did upgrade my virtual box 12c RAC to 12.1.0.2 and learned about the Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (tweet here). Thanks to Seth and Eric for their help. The cluster upgrade is done in a rolling fashion, and thus the database service was unavailable only on the node that is being upgraded. So, the upgrade can be done without a database outage.

After the OTN RAC Attack, did not attend any session on Sunday, went to the hotel the check-in. There also got a surprise upgrade to a room on penthouse floor on the Hilton Financial District, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Beautiful view!

 

Was lazy to go back to Moscone to watch Larry keynote, so watched him online. Larry was in a real good mood, I enjoyed the keynote.

By the time the keynote was over, was almost late to the Oracle ACE dinner. This was my first OOW ACE dinner, and there were some surprises too (the dance!). Got to meet few friends I only know on the internet… This is a great bunch of people!

Monday:

Attended few sessions in the morning and spent some time at the OneNeck booth.

My 12c OCA certification book was published in May. To my surprise, saw several copies of the book along with Freeman’s OCP book in the book store.

 

Monday ended with a customer dinner… (yum stake!)

Tuesday:

All of Tuesday morning, including lunch was with Oracle Publishers Seminar. Met many authors, and listened to Oracle product leaders. The round table with Oracle product managers was especially good this year.

Spent rest of the day at the Oracle demo grounds visiting cloud and Sparc booths.

Evening was the OneNeck customer appreciation happy hour/dinner at the Hilton. Had a good time.

Wednesday:

Attended several good sessions on Wednesday.

Had opportunity to listen to Jonathan Lewis talking on the technology behind Delphix. Enjoyed the company of Sandesh and Gopal, and it was a special moment to get a photo with JL.

 

Evening was the Pythian/OTN blogger meet up. Met several great folks…

The appreciation event was well attended, this year the weather was perfect. Spent some time, till 11pm…

Thursday:

Had to finish some work emails in the morning… Attended couple of sessions before taking off to Airport. BTW, had my photo with Yury, no jumping though!

 

Flight to Dallas was delayed about 3 hours! so return home was not that fun!! But glad to be home with family…

During the Open World week I did not publish any Oracle Tidbits on the facebook page (and twitter too). This was intentional as I was tweeting a lot from the conference already. I will resume publishing the tidbits again this week…

Have a great day!