So some unknowing fool gave me full access to a fridge of Starbucks caffeinated beverages, which should be against the law in this fine country. Needless to say, my ability to type approximately 180wpm has offered me the opportunity to catch up and blog about what it’s like almost a month in employed with Delphix. In just the last two weeks, a number of conference sessions have come about and events that I plan on being part of. Some of them are well known, some aren’t and some require a bit of promotion to make them even greater than they…
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I’ve been going through some SERIOUS training in just over a week. This training has successfully navigated the “Three I’s”, as in its been Interesting, Interactive and Informative. The offerings are very complete and the knowledge gained is limitless. I’d also like to send a shout out to Steve Karam, Leighton Nelson and everyone else at Delphix who’s had a hand in designing the training, both for new employees and for the those working with our hands on labs. I’ve had a chance to work with both and they’re just far above anything I’ve seen anywhere else. The Challenge of…
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So after over two years at Oracle, I’m moving on. Yes, for those of you who haven’t seen the tweets and the posts, you heard right. OK, everyone- cleansing breath. I worked with great people and did some awesome things in the community, blogged everything Enterprise Manager and talked over 1/2 the Oracle community into buying and doing projects with Raspberry Pi while I was at it! Many folks thought I was a product manager or a technical consultant, but my title was Consulting Member for the Technical Staff with the Strategic Customer Program with the Enterprise Manager and Oracle Management Cloud Group.…
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I know Werner DeGruyter will like the title of this post, so here’s a post dedicated to him as my last week at Oracle is off to a busy start…. 🙂 As I attempt to wrap up any open tasks at Oracle, I’m still Training Days 2017 Conference Director for RMOUG, have a planning meeting for the 800 member Girl Geek Dinner Boulder/Denver Meetup group that I’m the owner of, designing the booth and building out all the projects for the MakerFaire event at the Denver Science Museum next weekend and now have taken on the Summer Quarterly Education Workshop at…
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I fly out tomorrow for NoCOUG’s Spring Conference, which will be held on Friday, the 13th in San Jose, California. If you were thinking of attending and needed an added incentive to attend, I’ll be putting on a FOUR hour Enterprise Manager 13c hands on lab, so admit it, you’re intrigued… 🙂 I want to thank Iggy Fernandez, who is the heart of NoCOUG, for contacting me and asking me to do the HOL, along with the folks from Oracle ensuring that I have the environment to offer the attendees to enjoy this great event! I’ll fly back out of San…
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So Uwe Hesse caught my interest when he blogged about how to add your twitter handle to your time on your taskbar. This is really cool for those of us that present, so that while we demo, you’ll see our twitter handle displayed at all times. I did notice that his instructions, as most instructions I find for things on the Oracle side are for older versions of Windows or for Mac. I have a Window 10 machine and yes, it’s possible, just a few steps different. There are a number of ways to do this….most of them are long,…
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Becoming a mentor was not a direct path for me. Even though I inspired people with my perseverance and common sense, I had no inclinations for a corner office position, (I often joke about passing up the corner offices in a fight to get to the server room) and this is often a trait that is expected for someone who is titled with “Mentor.” In the five years in an official mentoring capacity, I’ve learned as much as I feel I’ve imparted among those I’ve mentored. I now find others asking me for advice on how to become a mentor or…
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Since the introduction of Enterprise Manager 12c, folks have been asking for a list of best practices. I know a lot of you have been waiting for this post! 1.Use previously deployed, older hardware for your Enterprise Manager deployment on 13c. Enterprise Manager is a simple, single service system. There is no need for adequate resources and ability to scale. In fact, I’ll soon be posting on my blog about building an EM13c on a Raspberry Pi 3. 2. Please feel free to add new schemas, objects and ETL’s to the Oracle Management Repository, (OMR.) This database doesn’t have enough…
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Even though I didn’t have the “official” prerequisite classes of HTML and CSS for the JavaScript class offered by sister Meetup group, Girls Develop it, I decided on Friday that I wanted to take the weekend class and signed up. The class is held at the Turing Development school and it was a great downtown location. Very centralized, no matter if you’re North, South, East or West of the city and the venue is a school, so it’s set up with plenty of power, WiFi and projector with multiple screens. It had started another spring time snow, so I was…
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Last night I attended our RMOUG WIT’s movie night. We partnered with Regis and the choice in movie has received a lot of great reviews, titled, Code- Debugging the Gender Gap. The movie resonated with me profoundly, as I was able to connect with not just the women involved in the interviews, but the girls who reminded me of myself when I was young. There were a number of initiatives that made me proud to be part of the IT industry and opportunities still needing our contribution towards change. Once the movie was over, we held a short WIT panel session.…
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I fly out on Sunday for HotSos and am looking forward to giving a joint keynote with Jeff Smith, as well as giving two brand new sessions on Enterprise Manager New Features. IOUG’s Collaborate is just a month afterwards, so the spring conference chaos is officially under way. With running the RMOUG conference, Feb. 9th-11th, I think you can imagine what my response was like when I realized how much content I had to produce for HotSos’ two sessions and then another four for Collaborate, plus a Hands on Lab. As focused as I’ve been on day job demands for…
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I’ve been feeling quite amorous about the camera features on my Samsung Galaxy 6 Edge phone, but noticed that it wasn’t taking as automatically impressive pictures as usual and sometimes, I even had to focus, (the horror!) I turned the camera over and could see a hairline crack inside the camera lens. It was a really odd place to have damage, as the exterior cover to the lens was fine. The camera is incredibly good, as even can be seen here in a picture that had the quality sucked out of it on Facebook from our trip to Mexico a month…
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I’m a Leaf on the Wind, Watch How I Soar. This is one of my favorite lines from the movie Serenity. Without Alan Tudyk’s character dying and all at the end of this, (sorry if I ruined the movie for anyone…) this is how a DBA should be in the database environment- skilled, reliable and maybe a little off our rockers. Our job is to protect the data, the database and all of the database. With that said, I’m going to list my Ten Rules of Database Administration. Fixing a performance problem with hardware is the best way to guarantee the return…
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I’ve just returned from another post-RMOUG conference mountain trip and happy to say that another RMOUG Training Days conference has successfully completed. It’s a massive undertaking that takes an incredible amount of time from our board of directors, volunteers and Team YCC, our conference support company. In the end, it’s all worth it and no one regrets the loss in personal life or family time to put on the largest Oracle regional user conference in the US. As my fourth year as conference director completes, I can look back and see how the conference has changed, how we’ve successfully taken…
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There is an incredible power with the simple act of doing. People have a tendency to complain about the world, but there are only a few that refuse to simply accept it as it is and reach out to change it. The Gift, The Anarchy This video with the Red Pill Analytics guys, Stewart and Kevin, was a great opportunity to talk about something that is very important to folks like Jeremy Harms, (@EmeraldCube) and I. Jeremy is very active in the Atlanta area with his Code Crew events, introducing technology to locations that may not have the resources to…
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So I’ll be heading out for Oracle Open World 2015 in just over another week. This is the first year in a while that I won’t be speaking, (my own fault, as dummy here hasn’t figured out how to submit sessions internally yet, duh!) but I’m still going to support the demo grounds, meet with customers and speak at Oak Table World! Per Steve Karam, if you need to know who’s speaking and why you should attend the sessions at the Children’s Museum, well here’s a few: Jonathan Lewis – Yes. That Jonathan Lewis. Also an alien of extraordinary…
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I’ve been a bit busy traveling and speaking, but I wanted to discuss the great events I’ve been lucky enough to be part of the last couple weeks. Indianapolis Oracle User Group I spoke at the INOUG back on September 17th. The user group in Indiana is incredibly welcoming and I had a great time with the wonderful attendees for my three back-to-back sessions. We discussed AWR Warehouse, ASH and AWR Mining and a new session on Optimization for EM12c and the Hybrid Cloud. East Coast Oracle Conference September 21st-23rd was my first visit to the great city of Raleigh,…
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As the Training Days Director for Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group, one of my tasks is not just running the conference for RMOUG, but also promoting it. RMOUG Training Days was the first conference I ever attended, (2004) and the first one I ever presented at, (2009.) Its one of the reasons my career is where it is now and how I stayed in touch with the man who is now my partner in life, best friend and husband. The Training Days conference is the largest regional Oracle User Group conference in the US and is held each year…