Category: Events

Oracle OpenWorld 2018 Call for papers is open!

Believe it or not, it’s time to start thinking about Oracle OpenWorld 2018!

The Oracle OpenWorld 2018 call for papers is now opens! Oracle customers and partners are encouraged to submit proposals to present at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, which will be held October 22-25, 2018 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Details and submission guidelines are available on the Oracle OpenWorld Call for Papers web site. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, March 22, 11:59 p.m. PDT.

We look forward to checking out your sessions on the Oracle Database and how it has changed the way you do business!

Day 4 of Oracle Open World 2017

It’s the last day of Oracle OpenWorld and we have saved the very best for last. So hopefully you are still awake and functioning at this stage!

You can start the day off at 12 noon in Moscone West, room 3020 with the Maria & Gerald Venzl show! In this session we will share the Oracle Database Features Every Developer Should Know About. Using clear, easy to follow examples we will explain how you can put these features to work in whatever project you are doing.

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Day 3 of Oracle OpenWorld 2017

Hopefully you enjoyed yesterday, the second full day of technical sessions at Oracle OpenWorld and are ready for more today!

At 11:30 am today I give my first technical session, with the wonder Dominic Giles of Swingbench fame!

Dom and I will be talking about the Oracle Database & the Internet of Things in Moscone West, room 3011. In this session we will provide step-by-step instructions for deploying a high-ingest, mission critical IoT workload on Oracle D atabase. There will be even some demos to proving the impact of each recommendations. So don’t missing it!

You can also get a SQLMaria laptop sticker at the session!

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Day 2 of Oracle Open World 2017

Oracle OpenWorld started yesterday and San Francisco is just buzzing with Oracle folks and the excitement generated by the new Oracle Autonomous Database announcements made by Larry Ellison during last night’s keynote!

If you are interested in more information on the Autonomous Database and how it’s changing the roll of the DBA, be sure to check out the “Preview of Oracle Autonomous Database” that Juan Loaiza‘s and I will present on Wednesday at 3:30pm in Moscone West,  room 3014.

But what about session picks for today?

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Day 1 of Oracle OpenWorld 2017

The biggest day of the Oracle calendar has arrived.

Oracle OpenWorld 2017 officially starts today!

The show kicks off with ton’s of great technical sessions selected by the Oracle User Groups including several great sessions on Oracle Database 12c, Data Management and Database In-Memory.

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40 years of Database innovations

June 16th 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of Oracle, which actually began life as Software Development Laboratories.

Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates set out to build the worlds best relational database and what an amazing 40 years of Database innovations it has been. From availability to security, Oracle Database has got you covered and we have only just begun!

To mark this great occasion, we’ve put together a short video highlighting all of the amazing features and functionality that has been added to the database over the last 40 years.

Feel free to leave you birthday wishes or comments for the Oracle Database Engineering Team in the comments section below.

Upcoming Events

The month of June is shaping up to be jam packed with great Oracle conference all across the global and I’m fortunate enough to have the opportunity participate in 3 of them  and hope to catch up with a lot of folks in person.

So where can you find me?

Oracle Gebruikersclub Holland Tech Experience 2017
On June 15th and 16th some of the best and brightest members of the Oracle community in the Netherlands will gather for a two day conference that will include sessions on the Oracle Database, SQL, Fusion Middleware and much more. I’m fortunate enough to be delivering 3 sessions at this event:

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Upcoming Event: Georgia Oracle Users Group Tech Days 2017

I’m delighted to have been given an opportunity to deliver the keynote session  at this year’s Georgia Oracle Users Group Tech Days 2017.

The conference takes place on  May 9-10, 2017, at the Loudermilk Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia and is shaping up to be two great days of technical sessions delivered by some of  the best Oracle speakers I know.

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A Special Episode of Real Time BI

Yesterday I had the privilege to join Stewart Bryson, Danny Bryant and Bobby Curtis for a special episode of Real Time BI. During the show we had an opportunity to chat about some of our favorite new features in Oracle Database 12c, the transition to the cloud and what you can expect at the upcoming GAOUG Tech Days.

All four of us will be speaking at the Tech Days in May and from what I hear it’s going to be a great couple of days in Atlanta. So if you are in the area, it would be great to have you join us.

You can check out the full episode below!

Upcoming Events : RMOUG 2017

I’m really looking forward to the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Groups Training days next week, at the Colorado Convention Center, as it will bring several new challenges for me.  I am going to be involved in three very different sessions at this year’s conference:

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