Wednesday, September 06, 2006

My Agenda for UKOUG 2006

These are the sessions I'm planning on attending at this year's UKOUG conference:

08:00 - 17:45 Registration Open
09:15 - 09:30 Introduction by Ronan Miles, UKOUG Chairman
09:30 - 10:30 Opening Technical Keynote: "What's Coming Next?" by Tom Kyte, Oracle
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Accountability for System Performance (introducing Six Sigma quality in Oracle software performance)
Mr Cary Millsap
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
Hall:
12:10 - 12:55 Moving lots of data quickly
Mr Connor McDonald
Independent
Hall:
12:55 - 13:50 Lunch
13:50 - 14:35 Understanding Logical I/O
Mr Daniel Fink
7S Consulting, Inc.
Hall:
14:45 - 15:30 All Oracle DBAs have to know about Unix Memory Monitoring
Mr Jurijs Velikanovs
"IT Alise" Ltd
Hall:
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 16:45 Everything you wanted to know about indexes
Mr Ben Bor
Acuma Solutions
Hall:
16:55 - 17:40 An introduction to SQL*Trace, TKPROF and Execution Plans
Mr David Kurtz
Go-Faster Consultancy
Hall:
17:50 - 18:35 Wait Events and the Geeks Who Love Them
Kyle Hailey
Independent Consultant
Hall:
Wednesday

08:00 - 19:30 Registration
09:15 - 09:30 Welcome & Introduction by Ronan Miles, UKOUG Chairman
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Presentations by Ian Smith, Oracle & Jesper Andersen, Oracle
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Practical database performance monitoring
Mr Peter Homes
EDS UK
Hall:
12:10 - 12:55 Instrumentation 101
Mr Thomas Kyte
Oracle
Hall:
12:55 - 14:10 Lunch
14:10 - 14:55 An introduction to the Cost Based Optimizer
Mr Jonathan Lewis
JL Computer Consultancy
Hall:
15:05 - 15:50 Advanced Research Techniques in Oracle - Part I
Mr Tanel Poder
SmartChaps.com
Hall:
15:50 - 16:25 Coffee
16:25 - 17:25 Advanced Research Techniques in Oracle - Part II
Mr Tanel Poder
SmartChaps.com
Hall:
17:35 - 18:35 Average Active Sessions - the magic metric?
Mr John Beresniewicz
Oracle USA
Hall:
18:40 - 19:30 Exhibition Drinks
19:30 - 23:00 Event Dinner

Thursday

08:00 - 19:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:45 Converting from Rule-based to Cost-based.
Mr Jonathan Lewis
JL Computer Consultancy
Hall:
09:55 - 10:40 Storage Internals for the Oracle Architect
Mr James Morle
Scale Abilities Ltd
Hall:
11:15 - 12:15 Tuning with SQL Profiles
Mr Joze Senegacnik
Senegacnik Joze - Raziskovanje v naravoslovju
Hall:
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
14:25 - 15:10 Inside RAC
Mr Julian Dyke
JULIANDYKE.COM LImited
Hall:
15:10 - 15:40 Coffee
15:40 - 16:25 A Problem for every Solution
Mr Carel-Jan Engel
DBA!ert
Hall:
16:35 - 17:35 CBO – A Configuration Roadmap
Mr Christian Antognini
Trivadis
Hall:
17:45 - 18:45 Guest Speaker (Simon Weston)
18:45 - 23:00 Focus Pubs & Disco till late
Friday

08:00 - 14:30 Registration Open
09:00 - 09:45 Performance and Scalability Enhancements in Oracle 10g and 10gR2
Mr Tanel Poder
SmartChaps.com
Hall:
09:45 - 10:15 Coffee
10:15 - 11:00 Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Performance Diagnosis Update
Mr Graham Wood
Oracle
Hall:
11:10 - 11:55 Once around the block
Mr Connor McDonald
Independent
Hall:
11:55 - 13:10 Lunch
13:10 - 15:05 Creating and Interpreting Basic Block Dumps
Mr Joel Goodman
Oracle University UK
Hall:



Looks like it's going to be a good conference.

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