Next week the UKOUG Tech 2018 annual conference will take place in Liverpool, UK.

I will present two presentations:

Migrating your DB to the Oracle Cloud – Exploring the Options , together with Simon Pane
Details: Systems – 7, 05/12/2018, 14:25 – 15:10

Tracing Parallel Execution
Details: Database 1 – 1A, 05/12/2018, 11:40 – 12:25

Regarding the rest of the week, my session choices are:

Monday, 3rd December

Time 09:00
The Optimizer & the Road to the Latest Generation of the Oracle Database , Nigel Bayliss – Oracle

Time 11:20
Raw Analysis of an Block , Gabriel Alonso – Accenture

Time 11:50
Test Drive Automatic Index Creation in Oracle Autonomous Database , Maria Colgan – Oracle

Time 13:35
Struggling with Statistics , Jonathan Lewis – JL Computer Consultancy

Time 14:30
What’s New in the Oracle Database and What’s Coming… , Dominic Giles & Maria Colgan – Oracle

Time 16:15
How Autonomous is the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse? , Christian Antognini – Trivadis

Time 17:10
JavaScript for Database Developers , Andrew Clarke – Result Set

Tuesday, 4th December

Time 09:00
The Basics of Understanding Execution Plans , Jonathan Lewis – JL Computer Consultancy

Time 09:55
Using Machine Learning to Debug Oracle RAC Issues , Anil Nair – Oracle

Time 12:35
Identifying Performance Problems in a Multitenant Environment , Christian Antognini – Trivadis

Time 14:25
Single row vs the Array Interface vs Parallelism , Mark Ashdown – Oracle

Time 15:20
Data Guard Roundtable , Joel Goodman – Oracle

Time 16:35
Using JSON in Oracle , Neil Chandler – Chandler Systems

Wednesday, 5th December

Time 09:00
Successful Star Schemas , Michael Hallas – Oracle

Time 09:55
RAC & Grid Infrastructure Roundtable , Joel Goodman – Oracle

Time 11:40
Tracing Parallel Execution , Ivica Arsov – Pythian (presenting)

Time 12:35
Advanced RAC Programming Features , Martin Bach – Accenture Enkitec Group

Time 14:25
Migrating your DB to the Oracle Cloud – Exploring the Options , Simon Pane – Pythian (presenting)

Time 15:20
Big Data SQL as Exadata for Hadoop. Oracle Power on top of Your Big Data Solutions , Gleb Otochkin – Pythian