Hi. I'm Scott

I'm skipping over my Day 4 review, because it really wasn't worth it. The human brain can only take in so much information so fast, I think I reached my saturation point on Thursday, which is convenient because the Thursday sessions are usually 'filler' sessions. Over all, Oracle Open World was pretty much what I expected. A great learning and networking experience. I learned a lot, about a little, and have come back the the office with some ideas on stuff we can do better. So what are those ideas? Glad you asked: Information Lifecycle Management Data goes in, it states that way. We need to find a better way.  Why? Large tables can be a drag on over all performance. Also, compliance reasons, such as immutability and retention policies.  Performance Engineering In a world with web applications, it's impossible to tune applications for the number of users; instead plan for hardware considerations to maximize stability and performance. Heard sessions fro

Wednesday's schedule: Building an Integrated Data Warehouse with Oracle Databaes and Hadoop The Very, Very Latest in Oracle Database development How to do a complete system refresh for PeopleSoft HCM on Unix/Linux Delivering Big Data Projects Successfully with Agile Software Development A Day in the Life of a Real-World Performance Engineer: Part 3 Not all sessions are exactly what you'd hope they'd be. In some cases the abstract can be misinterpreted or not completely understood. Other times the content might not exactly what you were hoping for. This was particularly the case with the 'Complete system refresh' and "Delivering Big Data Projects Successfully". I had high hopes for both of these presentations and left each session disappointed. The Complete System Refresh presentation started with a lot of basic information, and then he lost me at 'take a cold back of production system'. WHAT?! That sort of goes against my philosophy o

Here's my schedule for Tuesday: NoSQL and the Oracle Relational Database Information Lifecycle Management in OLTP Databases with Partitioning: Best Practices A Day in the Life of a Real-World Performance Engineer: Part 2 So today might have seemed like a pretty easy day, and from a strictly sessions stand-point, it was. However, there were some other things on my agenda today as well. There are TWO large exhibition hall with people hocking their software and services. Oracle also had a signifiant number of kiosks, staffed with functional experts on basically every piece of software; these are collectively called the "Demo Grounds". Oracle also blocks off about 90 minutes in the afternoon strictly to allow attendees to wander through these areas, so that's what I did.  Among the more interesting conversations I had was with RedHat regarding their BRMS product that we use. I also stopped by the Quest Software booth (they are owned by Dell now!) and the Ama

I'm going to fill in my thoughts later, but I wanted to put up a post on what sessions I attended yesterday.  New Features in Oracle Linux: A Technical Deep Dive The Evolution of Histograms in Oracle Database A Day In the Life of a Real World Performance Engineer: Part 1 PL/SQL Enhancements Brought by the Latest Generation of Database Technology Application Lifecycle Management with Oracle JDeveloper: Hands-On-Lab Oracle Express BOF Session Filling out yesterday's schedule was a bit challenging, mostly because I didn't get into my hotel in San Francisco until about 2am on Monday, or 4am Central Time; not the best way to start. After a power nap, I had a nice breakfast and then started my sessions.  My opinion on all these sessions isn't that they are going to be educational, in the collegiate sense. Instead, they provide just enough information about new features and use cases that they can be applied to specific situations in my daily life. If the expe