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Canada rocks – and is really cold in winter

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 3

Last week I’ve had one of those travel weeks where I accumulate many working hours already by flying and having layovers and delays at lovely airports. Plus of course, I work in addition and deliver full-day workshops. And see customers. Still, I won’t complain as I like my job a lot. Especially meeting with customers and discussing various upgrade and migration topics can be really challenging sometimes. And I can confess, Canada rocks – and is really cold in winter. Seriously …

Canada rocks - and is really cold in winter

One of these weeks …

When you travel to Canada in winter, especially in a January, you can …

Thank you, Barcelona – I’ll be back soon :)

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 1

I stopped more or less watching Champions League football since it is available on pay TV only for over a year in Germany. But of course I saw the result yesterday: Barca lifting Dortmund into the play-off stage by beating Inter in Milano. Well, I guess, all BVB fans will have celebrated yesterday night. Still, the reason for my blog post is not football. But I’d like to say Thank you, Barcelona – I’ll be back soon 🙂

On Monday, Dec 9, 2019, I held a full day upgrade workshop in Barcelona. The Oracle ACS team did all …

Workshop in Vancouver – Venue has changed

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

I arrived well in Canada seeing the longest immigration line ever – but luckily as the immigration process by itself is very efficient it didn’t take over an hour.

Vancouver Football Stadium

Vancouver sees to be a very nice city – only the weather could be a bit better 😉 I’m looking forward to the “Upgrade / Migrate / Consolidate to Oracle Database 12.2 and the Cloud” workshop tomorrow and just in case you haven’t been alerted yet, there was a venue change over a week ago in order to accommodate all registered participants from the Oracle office (before) to:

Hyatt

Database Upgrade Workshops in Brussels and Utrecht

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

On November 24 and 25 I’ll give two full-day Upgrade / Migrate / Consolidate to Oracle Database 12.2 and the Oracle Cloud workshops in Brussels and Utrecht. If you want to grab a seat please hurry as I’ve got informed that only a few seats are left.

Please use the registration links:

Both workshops will happen in the Oracle offices. You’ll get the address from the above links as well.

Looking forward to see you there 🙂

–Mike…

Upgrade workshop this week in Denver

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Roy.Swonger Workshop 1

I am looking forward to my trip to the Denver area this week, including an upgrade workshop at the Oracle office in the tech center area. We have a good registration list so far but there is still room! If you would like to attend, just register at events.oracle.com!…

Upgrade Workshop incl Hands-On in Vienna/Austria on April 9./10. – still some seats available :-)

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

Just in case you’ll would like to participate in an Upgrade and Migration Workshop including Hands-On in the area in and around Vienna, Austria 🙂

I’ll deliver an Upgrade workshop in the Oracle Office (IZD-Tower, 3. Stock – Wagramer Straße 19 – 1223 Wien) next week on April 9 and 10. It will include Hands-On so you’ll have to bring your laptop with Oracle Virtual Box installed and roughly 40 GB of free space to copy an image into your environment.

Just in case you’d like to participate … here’s the registration link which has more details about the …

Upgrade Workshops coming in March in North America

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Roy.Swonger Workshop 0

The days are getting longer, the snow is still getting deeper, and the upgrade workshops keep coming in North America! Remember that you can always go to http://events.oracle.com and plug in a keyword of “upgrade” to find upcoming live events. Roy will be the speaker at some of these events, while others will be delivered by some of our top presales technical folks like Dan Wittry:

March 5: Oracle 12c Database Upgrade Seminar-Detroit (Troy, MI)

March 11: Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Seminar – Omaha (La Vista, NE)

March 12: Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Seminar – Redwood Shores, CA Sold out!…

Upcoming Upgrade Workshops Jan/Feb 2015

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

The new year will start with a good bunch of Upgrade, Migrate & Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c workshops in Japan, USA, Canada and Europe:

January 20, 2015

Tokyo,
Japan

Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Seminar including Hands-On for Partners by invitation only

February 04, 2015

Irving (Dallas), TX
USA

Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Seminar – Dallas
Register .

February 05, 2015

Houston, TX
USA

Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Seminar – Houston
Register .

February 09, 2015

Bratislava,
Slovakia

Oracle 12c Database Upgrade Seminar – Bratislava
Register .

February 10, 2015

Budapest,
Hungary

Oracle 12c Upgrade Seminar Budapest
Register .

Happy New Year, Complete with New Upgrade Workshops!

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Roy.Swonger Workshop 4

Oracle Database 12c Upgrade Workshop banner

With the New Year arriving in a couple of days, it is a good time to flip the page on the calendar and make plans to attend an Oracle Database Upgrade workshop! The first two workshops will be:

Denver on Wednesday, January 7 (register here)

Chicago on Thursday, January 8 (register here)

I hope to see you (and you…and you too!) at one of these events next week!…

Upgrade Workshops 2014 – Summary

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

2014 is almost over. Time for a quick review 🙂

Roy and I would like to thank you for attending at our workshops throughout the globe. We’ve delivered more workshops than ever before. Most of them in Europe and Asia, but we did visit also South and Middle America, Australia and – well – the US of course.

See here the full workshop map:

(click on the map for further details – links to Google Maps)

We delivered in 2014:

62 workshops and conferences
for almost 4500 attendees
- 13x in Asia/Australia
- 5x in South/Mid America
- 15x

Incremental Statistics Collection improved in Oracle 12c

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Flaws and Pitfalls Incremental Stats Upgrade / Migration 1

Traveling right now through Asia. It was Beijing for 32 hours, Toyko for 24 hours – and now we are running an internal 2-day workshop with colleagues from Korea, New Zealand, India and some other countries in Seoul. And yesterday I had the pleasure to listen to Tom Kyte to his optimizer talk at the OTN Conference in Tokyo. And I learned a lot – as always when having the chance to listen to Tom, Graham Wood and the other great experts.

Oracle Database 11.1 offered a great new feature: Incremental Statistics Collection which helped a lot to …

Beijing, Seoul – and OTN Tour Tokyo – just in one week

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Travel Workshop 0

Uhhh … next week will be a tough traveling experience. 19870 km (12347 mi), all in cattle class on 4 different airlines.

I tried to avoid Lufthansa as they canceled recently flights I heavily relied on – with no reason! And there’s still a huge risk of announcing just their 9th strike within a year and a bit.

But I’m really looking forward to the workshops, to see all the colleagues, customers and of course some great friends. Roy and I will do two internal two-day workshops in Beijing and Seoul with each more than 50 participants – and …

Utrecht holds the new EMEA record now!
Plus: Updated Slide Deck

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

OMG … 154 people in an Database Upgrade/Migrate/Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c workshop! That’s the EMEA record so far for workshop attendance rates for our workshops in the past 7 years. I’m really impressed. Really!!! And you were such a great audience. I’ve had plenty of fun, lots of good discussions during the breaks and after the workshop.

As the auditorium room at the Oracle location in Utrecht fits just 120 people the local marketing folks had the idea of asking Jost if he can stream the workshop to another room. The other option would have been to reject …

Thanks for coming to the Upgrade Workshops in Dublin & Belfast – special thanks to my friends at LUFTHANSA

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

Thanks to everybody who came to our Upgrade/Migrate/Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c on Oct 14/15 in Dublin and Belfast. You were great audiences, I had plenty of fun, excellent deep dive discussion during the breaks and afterwards during the customer visits day on Thursday.

And very special thanks to my colleagues from Oracle Ireland, especially Mina and Kelly-Marie, but also all the others who were involved in the events and visits and made it happen so smoothly. Everything worked perfectly well except for things not in our hands (such as the massive train delay on the way back from Belfast).…

Upcoming UPGRADE Workshops in:
Netherlands, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain and Belgium

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Wow … another OOW is over … I have returned well but a bit jetlaged on Saturday from San Fransciso. It was a pleasure to meet with so many great customers, partners, Oracle ACEs, geeks and of course colleagues from all over the world.

And I’m still surprised how little DBAs and managers are aware of the upcoming end of Premier Support for Oracle Database 11.2 and still believe in “The 2nd Release Only”. But I’ll write something about this later this or next week.

And as soon as my time allows (most likely in the 2nd half of October) …

Upgrade Workshops in Bucharest, Athens and Warsaw

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Finally travel time is not over yet. There are 3 more workshops Upgrade, Migrate & Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c due to happen within the next few weeks:

June 17 in Bucharest, Romania
in the Radisson Blu Hotel – Register here!
July 10 in Athens, Greece
in the Pentelikon Hotel – Register here!
July 15 in Warsaw, Poland
in the Marriot Warsaw Hotel – Register here!

– CU there – Mike…

LOCATION UPGRADE +++ Hamburg +++ May 15, 2014

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 2

My colleagues did an awesome job inviting so many people to our workshop in Hamburg next week. Therefore Marketing now moved it from the Oracle Office in HH to the following address:

PRIVATHOTEL EGGERS
Rahlstedter Straße 78
22149 Hamburg

Registration will start at 9am, workshop begin is at 9:30am – and we’ll end straight at 4:30pm to catch our flight back to Munich. So please try to stay in time 😉

Looking forward to see you all next week 🙂

– Roy & Mike…

New Slides + Workshop Recap:
Luxembourg, Brussels, Vienna, Geneva & Baden

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

The first 5 of a long workshop run are over. Thanks for coming in, your patience for hundreds of slides and plenty of new (and some old) stuff. I really enjoyed seeing you and talking to you in Luxembourg, Brussels, Vienna, Geneva and Baden in the last 3 weeks.

And credits go to my colleagues Bernd Jodocy, Johan Vanden Bossche, Erwin Sulzgruber, Roger Wullschleger, Christiane Schlüter and all the others for setting up the events so well, did the inviations, assisted before, during and after the workshops – and gave me taxi rides between airports and locations. …

Upgrade Workshops – Locations

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Dear all,

unfortunately somebody has missed to add the locations to the registrations page – and if you follow the Google Maps links you may drive apparently to a McDonalds burger place instead of the correct location (at least they’ll offer free WLAN).

So please find the updated locations here – and enter the registration by clicking on the location/date directly.

14-MAY-2014 Duesseldorf – Germany
at: Oracle Duesseldorf, Hamborner Strasse 51, Duesseldorf – Link
15-MAY-2014 Hamburg – Germany
+++ CHANGE +++
PRIVATHOTEL EGGERS Rahlstedter Straße 78 22149 Hamburg– Link
+++ CHANGE +++:

19-MAY-2014 Copenhagen – Denmark
at: Oracle

Upcoming UPGRADE Workshops in Europe – Register Now

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

There will be a lot of travel within the next few weeks. So please keep your fingers crossed that Lufthansa pilots don’t go on strike for their ridicolous goals again. And I hope to see you in one of our upcoming workshops within the next weeks somewhere in the below cities.

Click on the date/location to the RIGHT to register, see location and agenda etc.

CU soon 🙂

– Mike and Roy

I won’t be able to come to India in March :-(

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 1

I assumed that it will become a tough trip to India this time in March with 3 workshops on 3 days in 3 different cities. But it became even tougher before. Unfortunately due to sick leave I won’t be able to fly to India next week. I deeply appologize as I was really looking forward to my 2nd visit to India.

Our next option: Roy will do it. But this is not possible as it takes at least 5 working days to acquire a Business Visa for India. Therefore our team’s disaster recovery solution won’t work either.

The…

Upgrade Workshops in India in March 2014
REGISTER NOW!

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 1

*** Due to sick leave I won’t be able to come to India ***

*** I deeply appologize – hope to see you soon again ***

It will be a tough trip as I will travel on my own with long distances in between the workshops but I’m really looking forward to my second trip to India to run 3 Upgrade, Migrate and Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c workshops in March 2014 in India.

Thank You for flying with “Hello Kitty” ;-)

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Travel 0

Yesterday Roy and I flew directly after the workshop in Seoul to Taipeh in Taiwan. It’s our first time in Taiwan – and the flight to Taipeh with EVA Airlines was quite surprising 😉 I didn’t took a picture in the bathroom …

“Thank You for flying with Hello Kitty!”.

-Mike…

Hurry up!
The next round of workshops is almost fully booked!

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

We’ve had a short email exchange today with the organizers of the following round of workshops in Australia and Asia – and you should really hurry up in case you plan to attend as some locations are already overbooked.

12-FEB-2014 – Melbourne/Australia
- Register here!!!

See you there 🙂

–Mike…

Upcoming ASIA Upgrade to Oracle 12c workshops

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Mike.Dietrich Workshop 0

Happy New Year to all of you and your families!!!

We have still a few remaining seats for the upcoming workshops in January 2014.

Oracle Database 12c Upgrade, Migrate and Consolidate Workshops

Singapore – Jan 21, 2014
- Register Here!
  @Singapore Post Centre Theatrette – Level 5 – 10 Eunos Road 8 – Singapore 408600
Jakarta/Indonesia – Jan 22, 2014
- Register Here!
  @Shangri-La Hotel Jakarta
Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia – Jan 23, 2014
- Register Here!
  @Intercontinental Hotel, Jalan Ampang

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Canada rocks – and is really cold in winter

One of these weeks …

Thank you, Barcelona – I’ll be back soon :)

Workshop in Vancouver – Venue has changed

Database Upgrade Workshops in Brussels and Utrecht

Upgrade workshop this week in Denver

Upgrade Workshop incl Hands-On in Vienna/Austria on April 9./10. – still some seats available :-)

Upgrade Workshops coming in March in North America

Upcoming Upgrade Workshops Jan/Feb 2015

Happy New Year, Complete with New Upgrade Workshops!

Upgrade Workshops 2014 – Summary

Incremental Statistics Collection improved in Oracle 12c

Beijing, Seoul – and OTN Tour Tokyo – just in one week

Utrecht holds the new EMEA record now!
Plus: Updated Slide Deck

Thanks for coming to the Upgrade Workshops in Dublin & Belfast – special thanks to my friends at LUFTHANSA

Upcoming UPGRADE Workshops in:
Netherlands, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain and Belgium

Upgrade Workshops in Bucharest, Athens and Warsaw

LOCATION UPGRADE +++ Hamburg +++ May 15, 2014

New Slides + Workshop Recap:
Luxembourg, Brussels, Vienna, Geneva & Baden

Upgrade Workshops – Locations

Upcoming UPGRADE Workshops in Europe – Register Now

I won’t be able to come to India in March :-(

Upgrade Workshops in India in March 2014
REGISTER NOW!

Thank You for flying with “Hello Kitty” ;-)

Hurry up!
The next round of workshops is almost fully booked!

Upcoming ASIA Upgrade to Oracle 12c workshops

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