UKOUG Techfest19

05/12/2019

I’ve just returned from Techfest19 – the UKOUG Flagship Oracle Tech conference – and it was simply excellent.

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Amazing Sunset from the Grand

It was held at The Grand Hotel in Brighton, and it was grand. If you missed it, you really missed out. 250 mostly amazing  presentations.

I did 2 main ones about Oracle Statistics, and also MC’d the Jonathan Lewis Optimizer Panel, alongside Martin Widlake. The highlight of my conference was asking a left-field question of an Oracle Architect about Full Table Scans, which has resulted in the potential for a change to the code to make them (possibly slightly) more efficient. Thank you for listening Roger!

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Oracle ACE Dinner

 

 

 

 

If you missed my 2 sessions on Database Statistics, you can find a webinar and a Blair-Witch style video of each of them here on my website:

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UKOUG Guest Speaker, before the party

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Oracle ACE Director

08/12/2017 4 Comments

I was at UKOUG Tech17 this week in my capacity at both Speaker and Tech Lead (organizing and selecting the agenda, drinks, parties, etc – although the heavy lifting is done by the @UKOUG office)

There was rather a nice surprise waiting for me. Jennifer from the Oracle ACE Program upgraded my Oracle ACE to Oracle ACE Director.

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This is a wonderful honour and reflects the many many days dedicated each year to the Oracle community through presenting at conferences around the world, helping on forums, writing magazine articles, arranging SIG’s and meetups, as well as the aforementioned Tech Lead at #UKOUG_TECH17 

Thank you Oracle ACE Program!

 

As for Tech17? Here’s a few images of this year’s event!

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Appearances 2017

28/08/2017 Leave a comment

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I’ve not written a post in a while. I’ve been a bit busy organizing several UKOUG events, including several Special Interest Groups 1-day events and Tech17 (and doing paid work for clients!)

I have been accepted to speak at a number of conferences over the next couple of months so I though I would share that with you and hope you’ll be there to learn, share, network and enjoy the conferences.

Events

1st-2nd September 2017. POUG (Pint with Oracle User Group) Krakow, Poland

27th September 2017. UKOUG RAC Cloud Infrastructure and Availability SIG. London, UK
(note: I’m not speaking at the SIG, just the Chairperson)

16th-18th October 2017. SiOUG. Portorož, Slovenija

18th-20th October 2017. HrOUG. Rovinj, Croatia

21st-24th November 2017. DOAG. Nuremberg, Germany

3rd-6th December 2017. UKOUG Tech17, Birmingham, UK.

Previous Appearances 2017

23rd Feb 2017. UKOUG RAC & Database joint SIG. London, UK

23rd-24th March 2017. UKOUG Ireland Conference. Dublin, Ireland

27th April 2017. UKOUG Northern Technical SIG. Manchester, UK (Chair Only)

8th June 2017 UKOUG RAC & DAtabase joint SIG. Reading, UK (Chair Only)

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Oracle ACE Award

05/05/2015 4 Comments

I have just learned that I have been nominated and accepted as an Oracle ACE. I would like to thank Jonathan Lewis for the nomination and Oracle Corp. for the recognition.

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It’s a tremendous honour for me to receive this award. I just hope I can live up to it by continuing to serve the community, write some more blog posts (here) that people find useful, keep organising the UKOUG RAC, Cloud, Availability and Infrastructure SIG and keep helping with UKOUG Tech 15. Keep going to the London Oracle Beer [no link, just beer] and #ClubOracle and keep promoting the Oracle community.

I’d also like to thank Martin Widlake for persuading me to get up on stage a few years ago and start giving presentations too. I think your beer debt is finally paid 🙂

Finally, I’d like to thank my wife and children for putting up with me sitting in my office at home, working on those presentations for hours and letting me enjoy myself off at conferences, SIGs and all the other events I attend when I could be spending time with them. I hope I get the work/life/community balance right.

Whilst all of that community stuff takes time and some effort, it’s rewarding and fulfilling, and remarkably social. Why don’t you try some or all of the above. I’m happy to help you get started. I’m short a talk on the next RAC SIG in July… fancy filling in? Send me an email. Lets talk.

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