SOUG-Tagung 09/2
I am impatient to speak in the swiss oracle user group next month March 18, 2009, Baden-Daettwil http://www.soug.ch I will be presenting an XML session regarding selecting XML from the database. select xmlserialize(document xmlcol) from agenda; 12:00 Empfang und Registrierung SOUG Sekretariat 12:30 Stehlunch im Foyer Seminarraum Schottky 13:00 21. Ordentliche Generalversammlung der SOUG, […]
Speaking in Stockholm
It’s a great honor for me to be invited to speak in Sweden in December 10-11 ! I am optimistic in getting a few copies of my book to give away 🙂
Obfuscation contest
I have been challenged to participated (my script : lsc2.sql) and now challenged to explain my query by Chen Ok, I give a try. To make the query unreadable and unformatable I used no space, no new line, and I started by q’
Baton Rouge Oracle User Group
I will be speaking about SQL Model at Baton Rouge Oracle User Group, Thursday, March 20, 2008 from 11:30am to 1:30pm. Check http://www.broug.org for details
Concours SQL
I tried my chance at Le petit jeu des requêtes SQL and yesterday received my price at home. Thanks to the author for organizing the competition 🙂 Next milestone : oraclecommunity.net obfuscation contest
SQL Model – Oracle Wiki
SQL Model – Oracle Wiki My unconference is Thursday at 2pm
Wake up SF, Oracle is coming !
I just arrived at San Francisco and meet my colleague Daniel and Lutz Hartmann. Thanks Dani for driving us to SF and thanks Lutz for the Indian food in the restaurant where we ended last year during Blogger 2006 Meetup 🙂 . By the way do not miss 2007 Meetup organized by Mark Rittman : […]
Openworld schedule
I exported to CSV, formated and printed my schedule I will have to add the Unconferences too. Saturday I have a long long day to flight to San Francisco 😎
Oracle OpenWorld Unconference
Oracle OpenWorld will host the On the wiki.oracle.com Wiki, you can create your own unconference session. I have proposed a session about SQL Model : SQL Model
OOW schedule
I have start building my schedule. There are about 1722 sessions to chose from this year, so choice is difficult! Due to jet-lag, I mostly cannot do all what I planed. And I also like to spent some time by the exhibitors and the boosts. Ok, the one I will not miss : Steven Feuerstein […]
SIG SOUG: times ten
I have been to a SOUG last Thursday. We first had a presentation from Thomas Koch about performance in Zurich Kantonalbank. As I have been working as a DBA for about two years in that bank, I already had my opinion about performance there 😕 The second presentation was about TimesTen. I must say I […]
OOW 2007 session catalog
Shay Shmeltzer posted the link to the Oracle Openworld 2007 sessions : http://www.cplan.com/oracleopenworld2007/sanfrancisco/cc
Fit for RAC
I will be speaking tomorrow in German and Wednesday in English in Credit Suisse Bank. The workshop is about the differences between single instance and RAC Some of them : architecture, availability, scalability, manageability, skills required, price. I will talk also about the operational aspects, upgrade, dictionary, parameter file.
OOW 2K6 day 1
I tried to watch the keynotes yesterday, but it is just to difficult to sit and not sleep for me… so I have seen only a few minutes of each one. The PL/SQL 11g session was excellent, I wrote an overview in a separate post. I started the afternoon with APC session, about the importance […]
pictures
Justin just posted a few pictures of OOW in otn blog. I also posted somes on the flickr group Eddie Awad created : http://www.flickr.com/groups/oow06/pool Since the group is public, feel free to join and post there too if you like. Here is one view of SF that make me feel in Germany :
not enough time to do all
I updated my calendar for Oracle Open World. By rechecking the location, I figured out I did book to much. Unfortunately, I will not be able to go to steven feuerstein session S281918 on monday, because it starts at the same time as tom session ends. I had a difficult choice for tuesday : – […]
I am in!
I just confirm my registration, got my badge and my bag. I also have my room at Fishermanns Wharf. Today I am going to China Town and in the evening to E&O -do not confuse with I/O- for the Ace dinner.
SOUG last week
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SOUG last week
The documents from last SOUG special interest group with Tom Kyte are now available for downloadable on the soug.ch homepage (under history). The day started with Sven Vetter, who talked about SLA management pack for Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10gR2. We saw also how to define a custom shell script and let OEM generate a […]
Xiang-Qi
Sunday, November 26th, 2006, I will defend my Title in the Chinese Chess Swiss Championship. It is free and open to anyone !
OOW2006 Blogger Meetup : Tuesday 24th October, Thirsty Bear Brewing Company, 7pm
blogger meetup organized by Mark Rittman
Swiss Oracle User Group
On wednesday, there is a DBA day in the SOUG community. DBA-SIG 06/4 The highlight of this session will be Tom Kyte, speaking about Oracle System Architecture. Check the homepage of SOUG.CH for registration
_Workshop _be_informed_
Tomorrow LC Systems is organizing an event about Identity Management in Zurich. The focus will be on Sun Java System Directory Server and Oracle Virtual Directory.
Tom Kyte in France, Switzerland and Austria
Register in Paris (18-19 sep), Zurich (21-22 sep) or Wien (25-26 sep) at oracle university for the tom kyte workshop. Lutz Hartmann wrote about this event in his blog
oow2k6 sessions
the sessions I registered with for oracle open world 2006 are the following : Monday 10:45 : Bryn LLewellyn, PLSQL Manager, will talk about PLSQL future in the next release (11g) : session S281172 Monday 12:30 : Andrew Clarke, Oracle ACE, will talk about unit testing in PL/SQL : session 282112 Monday 15:15 : Thomas […]
OpenWorld Connect Group Oracle Blogger
I created a new group in OpenWorld Connect. In San Francisco I would like to meat other people writing and reading blogs. If you have not actived openworld connect yet, you can update your profile on http://www.cplan.com/oracleopenworld2006/leverageoptin, than join the Oracle Blogger group at Oracle Blogger
Oracle OpenWorld 2006
I just registered to Oracle OpenWorld in October in San Francisco… Well, I know it is a long long long way to the west, but I will survive again, but this time I will avoid Delta Airlines, they refused to serve me a glass of wine last year in the plane! I am going to […]
bughouse tournament
I will be playing the The Geneva Bughouse Gathering 2006 tournament on Sat 19th August 2006. It is a variant of chess, very wild, played with four players in teams of two. The photo on my profile has been taken in the 2005 edition.
oracle partner workshop : database 10g
Last month I had an application server seminar I blogged in SOA . Yesterday it was database 10g day. First we had exactly the same talk about EMEA marketing, vision, partner and blabla for one hour. I did not expect to hear this comparison between Oracle Database and the C: prompt (origin) and fusion and […]
Germany we are coming
Germany we are coming Originally uploaded by laurentschneider. this cow is funny, it is quite exceptional for Switzerland to play in the World Cup !
oracle 7 bin
oracle 7 bin Originally uploaded by laurentschneider. end of life of oracle 7 reference, cd and documentation