Its the beginning of Wednesday and I’m finally attending a few sessions, other than my own, which also means that I have solid WiFi, too.  We are staying at the Hilton with most of the other ACE Directors, but residence in tower three around the pool appears to be similar to the third circle of hell when it comes to any type of service no matter if we refer to WiFi or even cellphone service. My sessions on Sunday were a joy to present.  I was quite nervous about presenting on no surprise deployments, as it was the first time…

It’s less than a week away for me and I’ve finally dug myself out of the hole that I created for myself, (nothing like digging your own grave, let me tell you… :)) Tim and I will be taking the California Zephyr train out again this year.  After the wonderful trip last year, we upgraded our reservations this year for the 33hr trip out and I also upgraded my camera to make the most of the fall aspen colors that we’ll experience on the trip out!  I can’t say enough about this trip, it is lovely, get to bypass all…

Yes, it was HOT! We are not talking just the conference here, but San Antonio in June, especially this June, which meant the conference could only held at a resort with a water park onsite. If you hadn’t taken a gander at the JW Marriott resort in San Antonio, please enjoy one of my pictures from the fifth floor of the resort: This was a welcome release from the heat on many a day, (yes, some of us attended the “Lazy River Symposium” on Sunday instead of the ones offered through the conferences…:)) and after the sessions during the weekdays.…

I’ve been part of multiple conversations, via Twitter, Facebook, personal and professional email on the choice of housing Enterprise Managers on a Virtual Machine. Now in the title, I am not to be taken seriously, this is a bit of sarcasm, so please know, I am having a bit of fun with the title and hope to seriously look the logic of why I avoid VM’s for my Enterprise Manager homes. The conversations didn’t get heated, but included many who were passionately against an EM on VM, another set who stated that “Virtualization is the future, including the Enterprise Manager- …

Anyone interested in viewing the PDF to either of my presentations from MOW2012, which was held in Billund, Denmark this last week, the slides are now available via the following links: Making EM12c Work for You and ASH Analytics, Top Activity the Next Generation If you have any questions, please let me know, I’ll be glad to add the speaker content that may not be visible in the slides! ~Kellyn

I am preparing to fly out to Denmark tomorrow for Miracle Open World, 2012 in Billund, Denmark, MOW2012 It will be my first time to Europe, so I’m highly anticipating the journey and conference. I also had the pleasure of guest blogging on ODTUG’s blog this week: ODTUG’s Blog I’m all packed, ready to go and ramping up for KSCOPE 2012 in June!! Enkitec will have a huge booth, no doubt and we will have a solid group of folks speaking at the event!

I’m forwarding out the latest KSCOPE 2012 Email. I love their stuff!! ———————————————————————————— The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas… And some of the brightest stars of the Oracle world will light up the scene at ODTUG’s Kscope12, San Antonio, June 24-28. Celebrated around the world for its top-notch content, outstanding networking opportunities, and memorable special events, ODTUG Kscope is unquestionably THE premier user conference for Oracle training. Kscope12 promises to deliver the goods again this year! At last year’s special event, ODTUGgers were putting on the Ritz aboard the Queen Mary. At…

This is not an “I’m against Oracle Best Practices” article. This is not an “I’m preaching against histograms” article. This is not an article telling folks that they should EVER take the steps or the choices that are presented in this article. I’m also going to refer to the wonderful post by Greg Rahn as to the reasons why what works in my environment would most likely NOT work in yours: http://structureddata.org/2008/10/14/dbms_stats-method_opt-and-for-all-indexed-columns/ What this article IS:  An honest account of how a unique database design was impacted when changing from a previously researched method of stats collection to post an…

As many of you know, I’ve been a bit busy since RMOUG Training Days finding a number of presentation opportunities and while I was at it, a new gig with Enkitec. I am finally sitting down and putting to paper what a great year the RMOUG Training Days conference had for 2012. As everyone is still reeling from the great keynote from Cary Millsap, (so glad I was wrong about screwing up my passenger pick-up schedule, thinking I’d left our keynote speaker at the airport!!)  His speech was enlightening, enjoyable and worth every minute of a heavy morning commute to…

Graham Wood was kind enough to send me a quick email and let me know that my presentation slides weren’t downloading correctly from RMOUG’s website, so I’ve put them here for anyone that may like to have them. I’m still recovering from the post RMOUG Training Day festivities, aka Foak Table, which was held up in Breckenridge again this year. I will make sure to blog about Training Days and the post event at a later date, but until then, here is a link to my slides. Please email me with any questions or comments you may have- always glad…

As busy as I am with the 11g project, (no real weekends off for 9 weekends and counting… :P)  I wanted to take some time out to write on the upcoming RMOUG Training Days 2012. For those of you Oracle techies, DBA or Developer, this is a must attend and for any who do choose to travel and attend- kudos to you, good choice.    As one of the directors on the RMOUG board, I can attest to the incredible amount of time and resources that have been invested into what is easily, the best grass-roots, Oracle conference around.  John Jeunette,…