Oh well … Oracle Open World 2012 is not far away anymore. Just a few weeks to go. And you might plan your travel currently or read a travel guide about San Francisco while we are finishing the work for our Hands-On-Lab image plus a detailed set of instructions, finalize our presentation slides and arrange customer meetings, breakfast, lunch and dinner appointments.
I really like going to San Francisco every year at least once as it is one of my favorite US cities – but Open World prep means really a lot of work, many late night shifts and plenty of extra grey hair. Right now I work for almost two days on the copy of my 24 GB Virtual Box image for the Hands-On-Lab fighting slow network speed, failing copy operations and forced-disconnected DSL and VPN connections. Well, it’s almost there … 
One of the best parts each year at OOW is meeting colleagues I haven’t seen and met for a year – and meeting customers and Oracle partners from all over the world. Sometimes it’s really funny. For instance there’s a former colleague from my good old Oracle RDBMS Support days who had left years ago to start his own business. We live just 100km apart from each other – but we meet every year thousand of miles away from home 😉
Our group will have an upgrade booth this year again as we had one in the past years. So if you want to discuss your upgrade strategy, see a demo or tell us how positively you wait to approach your next database upgrade: Please come by 🙂 But I don’t have the booth layout at this time so I’ll add them later.
The dates I have so far – and the topics – are the presentations we’ll give or we are at least involved with:.
Sunday, Sep 30, 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Moscone West – 2001
Oracle Database Upgrade to 11g Release 2 with SAP Applications
- Andreas Ellerhoff – DBA,
Deutsche Messe AG - Mike Dietrich – Consulting Member Technical Staff,
Oracle - Jan Klokkers – Sr.Director SAP Development,
Oracle
.
Monday, Oct 1, 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM – Moscone South – 307
Database Upgrade on Steroids:
Real Speed, Real Customers, Real Secrets
- Mike Dietrich – Consulting Member Technical Staff,
Oracle - Georg Winkens – Technical Manager,
Amadeus Data Processing - Carol Tagliaferri – Senior Development Manager,
Oracle
.
Tuesday, Oct 2, 10:15 AM – 12:45 PM
– Marriott Marquis – Salon 12/13
Hands On Lab:
Upgrading an Oracle Database Instance, Using Best Practices
Hi Mike,
Is the "Upgrading an Oracle Database Instance, Using Best Practices" hands-on lab a chargeable session or it is a free webcast session? We are from Malaysia, can we join this session?
Thanks for sharing!
Hi CL,
sorry for my late reply due to vacation.
The HOL is a live lab at OOW in San Francisco. But I’ll promise that Roy and me will rerun that lab during our next visit in KL hopefully sometime next year.
Thanks 🙂
Mike