My presentation was on the first day, right after the keynote, and following my habit of reviewing the slides before the show, I spent this keynote hour one-to-one with my MacBook. I could never underestimate the importance of this review following one fiasco I had in the past when I neglected to thoroughly review the [...]

Last year, I had very pleasant experience presenting at AUSOUG Conference 2007 in Melbourne. It was a long way from Canada but no regrets. Since I moved to Sydney more than a month ago, it’s much closer to travel and this year I will be presenting on both AUSOUG conferences — in Perth and at [...]

For those of you who didn’t see the Larry Ellison’s keynote here it goes courtesy to Sheeri:

We cut out the HP part but I don’t think anyone will complain. It’s not the best angle but we didn’t get there early in advance to secure the right location for the camera.
Now few bits about the details [...]

It’s my first Oracle Open World so I get a bit frustrated by the magnitude if the event. I think I’m getting used to it now and it’s easier to find my way around and orient in what I want to see.
First, few words about my presentation on Sunday — Under the Hood of Oracle [...]

Oracle RAC SIG web cast presented by your humble servant. Don’t miss it today! You can register on the RAC SIG web-site. This is a longer than usual session (90 minutes) packed with details of connection failover, load balancing and implementation details.
The session starts later than usual — 1pm PDT or 4pm EDT. However, I [...]

Some of you might know that for more than two years we have had an office in Sydney, Australia. Last year, I had the pleasure to travel there to present at the AUSOUG conference and work from our office in Sydney. It’s been a huge pleasure, especially if you consider what was going on back [...]

I’d like to share some great news — The Pythian Group and Open Query have become partners!
Open Query is a leading provider of high-quality MySQL and PostgreSQL training in Australia and New Zealand. They offer consulting services too, and are also know for their MySQL Graph Storage Engine. Feel free to browse through Open [...]

If MySQL DBA from Pythian goes to Oracle Open World, it would be a shame not to send an Oracle bloke, so there I am — presenting a 90-minutes session on the first day of the OOW 08 entitled Under the Hood of Oracle Clusterware.
I gave it during RAC Attack in Chicago and I’m pretty [...]

Interesting results you can see from some low quality news aggregators Looking at this page you might think that I’m awarded with the Liberty Medal:

I’ve got this link while browsing the search results for RAC Attack. I guess should ask my granddad to pass my best wishes to Mr. George H.W. Bush.

It’s all over now and I can’t describe how tired I am. As I type it, my flight from Chicago is delayed by 1.5 hour so far (the third delay already, 30 minutes each). I should say that I hate Chicago airport but I digress.
Last night, I left my presentation in a good state and [...]