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Oracle Cloud World 2022 – Recap and Slides

This was a wonderful but very strenuous week, no doubt. Oracle Cloud World (OCW) 2022 happened in Las Vegas. New name, new city. And even though many agreed to prefer San Francisco with an Oracle Open World instead having such an event in Sin City, there were a lot of great things happening. So let me start my personal summary here, the Oracle Cloud World 2022 – Recap and Slides.

Oracle Cloud World 2022 - Recap and Slides

Our labs and talks

It was amazing to see you all in our 4 sessions, 4 labs and 2 lightning talks. Since the registration process was a bit …

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OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success

Will you come to Oracle Cloud World (tcfkaOOW = the conference formerly known as Oracle Open World) 2022 in Las Vegas in the week from October 17-20, 2022? Then we hope to see you there. And we certainly hope to meet you. So in case you are looking for our technical talks and sessions at OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success.

OCW 2022 – Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track to Success

 

Your Upgrade / Migration / Patching Track at OCW2022

As usual our promise stands.

Zero marketing. Just pure tech.

And we our proud to have lots of real

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Oracle Cloud World 2022 – Database Upgrade and Patching Labs

Oh … it’s just a few weeks left until Oracle Cloud World 2022 will start on Oct 17, 2022 in Las Vegas. If you have some final doubts whether you should go or not, let me tell you that it’s like Oracle Open World just under a different name. And in a different place. But with the same cool people and many great talks. Take the chance to meet the developers, their managers and the product managers behind the features you daily use – or miss. We’ll be there – and this is YOUR chance now to sign up for …

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OOW London 2020 – Upgrade Talk and more

Since last year we organize regional Oracle Open World conferences. Not as big as the one in San Francisco (or in Las Vegas this and the following years), but still an exciting event. And for me, it will be the first time in a week to attend and speak at OOW London. Let me give you a very quick overview on our OOW London 2020 – Upgrade Talk and more.

OOW London 2020 - Upgrade Talk and more

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Upgrade Best Practices – Thursday, Feb 13 – 13:50-14:25h – Arena B – Zone 2

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Oracle Open World 2019 – Recap and Thank You!

OOW 2019 has ended over one week ago – and I just wrote the date for OOW 2020 into my calendar: Oct 4, /2020 –  Oct 8, 2020 – at least according to the events calendar of Moscone Center. But lets not talk about OOW20 but instead about my summary for Oracle Open World 2019 – Recap and Thank You!

Oracle Open World 2019 - Recap and Thank You!

Oracle Open World 2019 - Recap and Thank You!As usual, this was not a week to relax or hang out in all the nice places in San Francisco. OOW for me means usually a lot of stress. There are so many things we need to prepare. From …

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OOW 2019 – Database Upgrade Talks and Labs

Oh … time flies so fast. Just a few days until I will sit in a airplane to SFO. And on Monday at 7:00h the registration opens. As we have a lab at 8:30h already, just remembering the loooooong lines around the block last year, I will need to be there very early. It’s just a few days until OOW 2019 – Database Upgrade Talks and Labs information is here.

OOW – Oracle Open World 2019 in San Francisco

OOW 2019 - Database Upgrade Talks and Labs

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When? September 16-19, 2019

Where? San Francisco, USA

What? Find the session catalog here

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September is CONFERENCE month – back to reality

There was a bit of silence on the blog – well, I needed a deep breath and plenty of fresh air on the most beautiful German island. And now it’s time to dig in again. And I realized that I won’t have many “office” days this month. September is CONFERENCE month – back to reality.

September is CONFERENCE month - back to reality

POUG – Polish Oracle User Group 2019 in Wrozlaw

September is CONFERENCE month - back to reality

When? September 6-7, 2019

Where? Wrozlaw, Poland – Kino Home Horyzonty

Why? Because if you’ve never been there, you won’t understand why everybody wants to be there. Check out the agenda: https://poug.org/en/edycja/poug-2019/ – in two days …

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Oracle Open World 2018 – Recap, Slides, Impressions – and a BIG THANK YOU!

Oracle Open World 2018 is over since two weeks now. And for me it was the by far busiest OOW ever. We had 4 presentations, 4 labs, 12 customer CVCs, several other customer appointments … and I wouldn’t want to miss a single one. It was a lot of work – but meeting with these customers, the discussions after the talks, at the hallways, at the lab, that is so important for us. With a distance of several thousand kilometers and 2 weeks, I’m writing Oracle Open World 2018 – Recap, Slides – and a BIG THANK YOU!

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OOW 2018: How to Migrate to Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud

OOW 2018: How to Migrate to Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud

And last but not least our forth talk at OOW 2018: How to Migrate to Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud on Tuesday, Oct 23 at a fairly late slot at 5:45 p.m. (or 17:45h) as well in Moscone West 3004.

What is this talk all about?

It’s about the Oracle Autonomous Database cloud. But not so much about the Cloud offering itself. There are other talks covering this topic. We are the upgrade and migration guys. Hence, in this talk my boss, Roy Swonger and my PM mate Bill Beauregard will demonstrate you in a live demo how to migrate …

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OOW 2018: Cloud Migration from AIX to ExaCC – for DBAs and managers

OOW 2018: Cloud Migration from AIX to ExaCC - for DBAs and managers

Yes, OOW starts next week. And I’d like to introduce the third of our 4 talks. And let me say upfront about this talk at OOW 2018: Cloud Migration from AIX to ExaCC – for DBAs and managers. This is not the usual “cloud” talk 🙂 The official title is: Oracle Database Cloud Migration: Fast, Simple, Universal. Well, we should discuss the “simple“. But that’s why you want to see this talk. It will happen on Thursday, 9:00 a.m.. Hence, remember to leave the party the night before not too late. You need to be awake when …

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OOW 2018: Upgrade to Oracle 18c – Live and Uncensored

OOW 2018: Upgrade to 18c - Live and Uncensored

Less than two weeks until the potentially busiest Oracle Open World conference I’ve ever attended. The schedule is filled up already and closed down. And I’m pretty sure I will need time off afterwards to relax and recover. But I’m looking forward to our annual big event in San Francisco. To make it as exciting as possible for you we are very happy to have high profile speakers with us in all our talks. And we promise: No marketing. Just tech facts. If you’d like to sneak into OOW 2018: Upgrade to 18c – Live and uncensored, then mark …

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OOW2018: The new AutoUpgrade for the Oracle Database

As I wrote the other day, OOW 2018 is not too far away anymore. And if you’d like to see something really new, something which can really really ease your database upgrades in the near future, then you may visit our first talk right on Monday morning at OOW2018: The new AutoUpgrade for the Oracle Database.

OOW2018: The new AutoUpgrade for the Oracle Database

What is this talk all about?

First of all, let me emphasize that we don’t do marketing. We would like to introduce you to a brand new tool we’ll currently have in beta operation at selected customers. And which we’ll release in the …

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OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs

OOW 2018 is coming - and we'll have 4 talks and 4 labs

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs. We are excited and look forward to a very busy OOW. And those who say, OOW is marketing only, please come by to our talks and visit our labs to find out that we don’t do marketing.

OOW 2018 is coming – and we’ll have 4 talks and 4 labs

Oracle Open World 2018 will be a busy conference for us. And we are so happy to have customers talking with us in each of our 4 talks. In addition, we’ll have a Hands-On Lab every day …

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Oracle Open World 2018 – Now from October 22-25, 2018

When I was reading tweets I’m subscribed to last week while being in Redwood Shores, I read this one from the official Oracle Open World twitter account and learned: Oracle Open World 2018 – Now from October 22-25, 2018.

See the tweet:

Please be aware that other external web pages such as this one or this one haven’t been updated yet with the new dates. …

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OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate 100 TB databases in less than one day

I was shocked. Positively. We’ve had a packed room on Wednesday at Oracle Open World 2017 for our talk together with Jay Barnhart of Centric Consulting on How to Migrate 100 TB databases in less than one day. And we’ve had so much fun. Thanks for coming by, thanks for being so active. This makes all the travel and the stress really worth it.

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate 100 TB databases in less than one day

I gave a quick overview about all Transportable Tablespaces techniques, about how to use the PERL scripts to deal with very …

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OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate to the Oracle Cloud

Thanks for coming to Roy’s and Julian Dontcheff‘s presentation about How to migrate to the Oracle Cloud – 13 different techniques and customer experiences on Tuesday at Oracle Open World 2017. The talk was very well attended, I saw many people taking pictures and notes.

OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Migrate to the Oracle Cloud

Personally I liked the talk a lot as it gives a very good (and very rare) complete overview on techniques how to migrate to the Oracle Cloud, advantages, use cases, database versions, where to use it. This all garnished with the experience Accenture has …

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OOW 2017 – Slides Download: Upgrade to Oracle 12.2 – Customer Cases

Thank you for coming by to our talk at Oracle Open World 2017: Upgrade to Oracle Database 12.2 – Customer Cases. It was a pleasure to have so many people attending. And I’m really proud about the support we’ve had by Alain Fuhrer and Paolo Kreth from Swiss Mobiliar Insurance and Daniel Overby Hansen from Danish SimCorp.

As we promised, we did no marketing. Only real customers with real environments. All on Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 live and in production.

Alain was with me on stage and he did a fantastic job showcasing Mobiliar’s project about upgrading over 300 databases …

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Oracle Open World 2017: Must see sessions for UPGRADE / MIGRATION / CONSOLIDATION

Oracle Open World 2017: Must see sessions for UPGRADE / MIGRATION / CONSOLIDATION

Just a few days to go … I’ll be on my way to San Francisco soon for my tenth or eleventh Oracle Open World Conference 2017 soon. And I look forward to it. Roy has compiled a Focus-On document for Oracle Open World 2017: Must see sessions for UPGRADE / MIGRATION / CONSOLIDATION

  • Upgrades
  • Migrations
  • Consolidation with Multitenant
  • Patching
  • The new release model
  • Our talks and labs of course
Oracle Open World 2017: Must see sessions for UPGRADE / MIGRATION / CONSOLIDATION

Please find the Focus-On Upgrades and Migrations page here:

https://events.rainfocus.com/widget/oracle/oow17/1505826559931001NQPG

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Oracle Open World 2017: Database Upgrade / Migration Sessions and Labs

Oracle Open World 2017: Database Upgrade / Migration Sessions and LabsTime flies. It’s just a few weeks until 2017’s Oracle Open World Conference in San Francisco. Yes, I’m looking forward to it as it is a perfect place to meet with customers, discuss upgrade and migration topics, and of course learn from each other. And you should come by at our Oracle Open World 2017: Database Upgrade / Migration Sessions and Labs.

No marketing content. Guaranteed.
Just real facts and real customers.
On stage. Live and in color. Uncensored.

Oracle Open World 2017: Database Upgrade / Migration Sessions and Labs

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OOW 2016: Slides and HOL Download

Sorry for any delay but Roy and I promised to make our OOW 2016 slides available right after the talks. And some people were asking already where they are.

For internal people you’ll find them via the usual sources on database.us.

But customers will have to wait until Oracle Database 12.2 is available in the Cloud as it got announced at OOW during the keynotes.

What you can get right now:

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OOW 2016: Where are the slides? And the lab?

OOW16 is not over yet. Still one day to go. Or walk. My average walking distance per day so far is almost 11km per day or 13500 steps according to my cell phone.

We’ve had one talk so far, our “Upgrade and Migrate to Oracle Database 12.2 – Live and Uncensored” on Monday, 3 of 4 Hands-On-Labs, all fully sold out – and tomorrow we’ll have the final lab and the 2nd presentation “Ensure Performance Stability When Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c” in Moscone South 302 at 9:30am.

Today I just realized that the “wonderful” OOW iPhone app …

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OOW16 – Focus on Upgrade / Migrate / Consolidate

OOW 2016Almost ready to fly out – just have to pack my suitcase. And looking forward to an exiting Oracle Open World 2016 Conference in San Francisco.

If you are interested in a selection of really useful presentations, labs and meetups around Upgrade / Migration (incl DMU) / Consolidation and the Optimizer in Oracle Database 12c please see this Focus On document with links to the presentations of people we know, customers we have worked with – and of course our talks as well.

Focus on Upgrade and Migration - OOW 2016

Click on the picture above or use this link.

Furthermore please find to highly recommended

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Oracle Open World 2016 – Recommended Customer Talks

At OOW 2016 there are some customer talks from customers we worked with or at least were involved in their project plans. We highly recommend the talks below.

British Telecom has such an ambitious upgrade and migration project for really MANY databases. I’m looking forward to David’s talk. We met at UKOUG TECH15 and I promise it will be a very interesting insight presentation.

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Oracle Open World 2016 – Upgrade Talks / HOL

Just a few weeks until Oracle Open World 2016 Conference will kick off. September 18-22, 2016 in San Francisco.

For us it is usually the most busiest week of the year. But also a great experience every year with so many good discussions and meetings. It’s very intense.

Since a few hours the OOW16 Session Catalog is online with the schedule (but it still misses the rooms).

This is the list of our talks and HOL sessions:

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OOW 2015 – Upgrade Hundreds and Thousands

Uhh .. OOW15 is finally over.

Lots of work – tons of great input – and so many excellent discussions with customers, users and Oracle ACE’s.

Just in case you’d like to download our slides please find the in the Slides Download Center:

And find the Hands-On-Lab here including the Howto description:

Thanks again – and hope to see you again

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