Hotsos Symposium 2016 Wrap-up

Another Hotsos symposium is in the books. There were a so many great sessions that it is hard to quickly outline things. In addition to the presentations, there was a wonderful Training Day by Richard Foote.

The topic of indexes (Richard Foote's training day material) is more vast than we realize when doing day-to-day work in Oracle. Richard went through a great deal of information on indexing. During the course of his day long session he debunked many widely held myths about indexes. For example, is it best with a composite index to have the most selective values at the start of the index? Are you sure about that...?

This basic information is critical to supporting an Oracle system. A long standing belief of mine is that people should spend more time on the fundamentals of database design and performance rather than going down rabbit holes of features or techniques that are often not really needed. Many times I see people using these rare techniques to resolve issues that sometimes have much simpler fixes.

Throughout the conference there were a mix of presentations from veteran presenters and new participants. The typical big names including Tanel Poder, Kerry Osborne, Jeff Smith, et al provided the high quality presentations we are used to seeing from them. As usual for the Hotsos Symposium, the content was performance centric however it covered a wide variety of topics.

The training day wrapped up the Symposium but the start was from Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman and ThatJeffSmith on the importance of social media presence. Their presentation served to remind me of how infrequent I have been blogging and interacting in the social media space lately. As a result of their wonderful presentation, I will be working on doing more than a just few blog posts a year.

In addition to the increased social media activity I also plan on being more active with presentations and articles. I have done quite a bit in the past, but have taken a little bit of a break lately.

I guess that is the sign of a good conference... Being more energized when it is over.

Hotsos Symposium 2013

Good news! I found out today that I will get to present at the 2013 Hotsos Symposium. I was slotted in as a fill-in speaker for another presentation that had to cancel.

The Symposium is always a great event. This conference focuses totally on practical performance tuning and database management topics. I'm proud to be part of the company that hosts this event. Last year's Tenth Annual event was great.

My presentation, "Hunting Down Performance Problems", is suitable for beginner - intermediate level DBAs. The presentation will focus on examples of performance problem identification and resolution. I hope to see some of you there.

For more information see -My Speaker profile

OOW 2013 Update

Oracle Open World is coming up very soon. If you are going, be sure to stop by the EBS Application Technology Stack SIG meeting on Sunday. The details for the meeting are:

Sunday, September 30th
10:30 to Noon
Moscone West 3018

As usual, there will be a lot of great content from Oracle provided during the SIG meeting. The Special Interest Group meeting typically allow for more interaction with the speakers and other attendees.

Speaking of conferences, the Hotsos Symposium is taking submissions for next years conference.

Symposium speaker submission

If you are not interested in speaking, you can still register to attend.

Also, on the Hotsos front, be sure to check out the latest newsletter. There are a lot of big updates from Hotsos.

Hotsos Newsletter

My COLLABORATE 12 Session

I had a lot of fun presenting my topic to the attendees at COLLABORATE 12 this year in Vegas.
My presentation can be found at the following location:
http://mwsig.oaug.org/WhitePapers/keep_it_simple_pjackson.pdf

There are a lot of My Oracle Support notes and SQL commands included in the presentation. Check them out and let me know if you have any questions or issues.

COLLABORATE 12 Info

After a very informative and enjoyable Hotsos Symposium, the next educational opportunity for me is COLLABORATE 12 in Las Vegas.

There are a couple of sessions worth specific mentioning in the blog.

1. On Monday 4/23, I will be presenting a Performance Tuning session called "Keep it Simple - Common, Overlooked Performance Tuning Tips". The session will be from 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM in South Seas E. I will be covering a variety of performance tuning tips and recommendations.

2. Also on Monday 4/23, The OAUG EBS Applications Technology SIG will be presenting a two part SIG meeting from 2:30 PM - 4:45 PM in South Seas F. During this SIG meeting there will be two high quality presentations from Oracle. For EBS customers, attend one or both meetings. I have been a board member of the EBS Applications Technology SIG since its inception. I currently serve as the vice-president of the board.

I hope to see you at COLLABORATE 12.