No, you didn’t get a review of my Samsung Tab S2….I didn’t have it long enough to review it! Actually, I had it just over six months and yes, it was beautiful and yes, I love it and no, it didn’t survive the fall on the tile, even in the protective cover at Denver International Airport. Needless to say, I love my tablets and I’ve had a number of them. I’ve had everything from the first 10.1 from Samsung to the iPad Air. My daily work machine is a Microsoft Surface Pro 4, but it’s a beautiful, lovely piece of hardware…
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OK, Oracle EM hat off, RMOUG Training Days hat on! 🙂 So as many of you know, RMOUG Board of Directors made the smart move after I joined Oracle, instead of losing a valuable member of the board, they moved me to being a non-voting board member emeritus and realized that I could still serve as the Training Days Conference Director. The conference is by far, the most demanding position on the board and its a role that I relish and have the skills for. Oracle is happy. RMOUG is happy. Membership is happy. Training Days is taken care of……
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Yes, this is for my RMOUG abstract reviewers, but it may help other conferences and user groups, too. We have some incredible content at RMOUG, (Rocky Mtn. Oracle User Group) Training Days conference and its all due to a very highly controlled, thought out process that has evolved over time to ensure that we have an abstract selection process that is as fair as possible and offers new speakers opportunities as well. I’m going to share my abstract scoring summary with the rest of the class to start, so you get an idea of how we score. As a strong…
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I will be in San Francisco a little early this year and as I’m not longer an ACE Director, it’s to attend the IOUC, (International Oracle User Conference) at Redwood Shores on Sept. 25th and 26th. I’ll be representing RMOUG for the two day event that has representatives from user groups from all over the world. Our lovely host, Mary Lou Dopart and her team, will ensure we have another great year learning how we can provide the best user group for our members in the Oracle community. After the a lovely weekend in San Francisco with friends, I’ll be…
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I believe you do your best when you follow in what you believe. Kellyn’s #ALSIceBucketChallenge …. Hold the ice…:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cawQjZRCyok
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I am a long time supporter of Samsung products- I’ve always had Samsung phones, (currently a Note 3 owner…) Samsung TVs, monitors and even have a Samsung microwave and refrigerator. I love Samsung products and this has included my tablets, recently deciding to upgrade my Samsung Note 10.1, (original) for a Samsung Note Pro 12.2. I have nothing against Apple/Mac products. I think they are great, but I’m a long time user of Windows, (it really does what I need…) and I have always loved Android OS. When it came to the Samsung Note Pro 12.2, I found the size…
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Just a blog post on the great conference coming up at the end of the month from ODTUG, KSCOPE 2014. The conference will be held in Seattle, Washington this year, (yeah, look forward to cooler temperatures than last year in New Orleans KSCOPE 2013… :)) I’ll be heading up the Database Track and the Women in Technology, (WIT) luncheon this year again for the conference and I recommend you don’t miss out! The Hands on Training for the Database Track is shaping up nicely thanks to some very hard work from Yury Velikanov, Michelle Malcher, Leighton Nelson, John Piwowar, Tim…
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Tim and I leave for Oslo on Monday for the OUGN, (Oracle User Group Norway) conference. This is a great conference that many of my friends have talked about for the last couple years and I finally let Oyvind talk me into going. The conference is on a cruise ship that leaves from Oslo and sails for three days. We’ll be quite busy- Tim and I will be doing a keynote, “Assumptions, Killer of First Dates and Databases Everywhere”, then I’ll be presenting “DBaaS in a DBAs World” and “Master EM12c Monitoring”. I will also have the opportunity to host…
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I was warned it would be difficult. I was warned that it would be time-consuming and painful, but I survived without as much as a scratch on me. This last week was my first week at Oracle and it was really, really great. The on board process wasn’t difficult at all. Maybe it was because I was told to be prepared for a difficult and challenging week, so I was prepared for something very difficult and it was much easier than I imagined. Maybe it was because I had new challenges and interesting new environments to work in, which made…
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Yes, you heard that right- DBA Goth Cowgirl is getting an upgrade to Enterprise Manager, (EM12c) Goth Cowgirl! I will be starting as Oracle’s Consulting Member of the Technical Staff for the Strategic Customers Program, specializing in Enterprise Manager on March 17th. The Strategic Customer Program is a group that rolls up under the Systems Management product line and is one of four primary product lines, (the other three being Database, Fusion Middleware and Applications.) We comprise the whole of Enterprise Manager and OpsCenter. This opportunity has been long in the making and I look forward to focusing on the…
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Today is my last day at Enkitec and I look back on a whirlwind two years. As many people know, I never seem to stop moving, (I hear my mother’s voice from when I was a small child saying, “Kellyn, sit down! Kellyn, don’t climb! Please, sit still!” :)) Nope, still doesn’t work, but I also never seem to stop growing and it’s time to take that next step in my career. These last two years have been phenomenal, starting out as a new Oracle ACE and a flurry of conference appearances, it’s culminated to me speaking at 16 conferences,…
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A number of folks have told me how much they enjoy the content that I “buffer” out throughout a 24 hr automated period, but hate how much they often miss vs. getting “spammed” with all of it at once and just being overwhelmed. I’m trying to find the best of both worlds and have started to push this content out to my very own Flipboard magazine. If you love Flipboard and would like to find the stories of interest I push out on Twitter, Facebook and Linked In, you can now subscribe to DBA Kevlar Ammo and get all the…
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So I survived one more year as the conference director for RMOUG Training Days 2014! 🙂 There was some question to my survival as we entered the week before the conference, but I can say, I’m surprisingly intact and once I finish this post, it’s onto the next challenge! If you’re unfamiliar with the conference, Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group’s Training Days has been an incredibly well supported conference by many of the best Oracle speakers, Oak Table members and ACE/ACED in the world. I’m very proud to be a member, a board of director, as well as the conference…
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I’ve been working a good number of hours this December between project/clients for Enkitec and co-author work on the EM CLI book with Seth Miller and Ray Smith, plus my additional responsibilities as the Training Days Conference Director for RMOUG’s big conference coming up in 6 weeks. Due to all of this, going to take one more blog post off from technical and share what happens when you eat food outside of your normal diet just before going to bed… —————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Saturday evening we were returning home from a wonderful post-Christmas dinner at Tim’s Mother’s home. We had quite a…
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Anyone who knows me, will also know that I’m an Android person. I have nothing against Mac products and really do think they are cool, but I use what works for me and I am very content with my Samsung Android Galaxy S4 for my Smartphone and Galaxy Note 10.1 for my tablet. With the innovation of wearable smart devices, one would think that I would have gone Galaxy Gear, but I didn’t. Here are the initial reasons my letter to Santa had the Sony SmartWatch 2 instead: Play Store wise, the Sony had just as many and actually had…
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So yes, I’ve been involved in a number of conferences and in a number of different roles. I started out presenting, then volunteering at conferences, reviewing abstracts, then as a track lead and now as a conference director for RMOUG. This year I also am the database track lead for ODTUG’s KSCOPE for a second year in a row. A lot of folks have asked me recently what they need to know to submit a great abstract, how to get accepted and why they may not have been selected. It’s often a lot more complicated than what it may first seem…
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Great day today with a second WIT session and all the interviews and General Session for Enterprise Manager 12c. If you are looking for the ebook, you can download it from Oracle here. A couple people caught on that I was tweeting while discussing the benefits of EM12c, even capturing me in a photo, (will never live it down… :)) They played the trailer for the new Cloud Odyssey movie Oracle has been working on to promote EM12c and cloud. It’s been a lot of fun as they’ve talked about how they came up with the idea based off the…
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The ACE Director briefings are done and now we are onto Sunday sessions. I’ve already had a couple meetings with folks today and wondering why I didn’t wear flats at 2pm in the afternoon, but there are the important necessities that must be taken care of, like when am I speaking this week, so here’s the schedule: My Oracle Open World Schedule My Oak Table Schedule If you want to meet up to chat, best to hit me up on Twitter @DBAKevlar and loving Oracle Open World 2013 already!