Oracle Open World Day 1

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 expectations for anyone attending this conference to be 'trained' they are in the wrong place. However, if you want some foundational knowledge before starting to work with a feature or product...this is the place to be.