Monday 3 December
Get up very early and drive to Birmingham.
09:40-10:30 ‘30 years at Oracle’ - Tom Kyte. I own a couple of Kyte’s excellent books and various sources report he is an excellent speaker.
10:40-11:00 Visit a few stands. A quick game of ‘spot the colleague’ and ask 27 different companies ‘How can XYZ help me grow my business ?’
11:15-12:00 ‘Siebel Keynote’ - David Mills. Possible sales and marketing fluff alert. Need to sit at the back adjacent to an aisle to allow a potential rapid escape to ‘Oracle RAC versus Oracle Data Guard - which should I use for Disaster Recovery and which should I use for High Availability ?’.
12:25-13:20 ‘Under the Covers of Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus’ - Mick Bull/Lisa Dobson. I would like to learn more about Oracle’s Business Intelligence tools. Plus I have an innate weakness for presentations titled ‘Under The Covers…’
13:15-14:15 ‘TimesTen: Anatomy of an In-Memory Database’ - Chris Jenkins (Oracle). Curious to hear more about this technology.
14:15-15:15 ‘Remote Hand Held SFA solutions need housekeeping - Ian Keleher/Nicola Burrows (Gallaher). A verbose and hardly compelling title but I have worked with this customer so I might get a mention on the Credits slide.
15:20-16:25 ‘Oracle 10g: RAC Tuning Tips’ - Joel Goodman
16:45-17:30 ‘Siebel Marketing and Marketing Analytics’ - Ben Wales
17:35-18:35 ‘11g new features for DBAs’ - Tom Kyte. This has better be worth it. I am missing ‘Siebel Networking’, free beer and prawn volavons for this !
Back to hotel to dump marketing literature, USB memory sticks and complimentary gifts from Quest Software.
Shower, brush teeth, apply deodorant and slip into something more comfortable. Head over to the Pitcher and Piano to gatecrash the Oracle bloggers meetup.