Grid DBA

For all those going to OpenWorld this year - Schedule Builder has been the tool of choice to help navigate the thousands of sessions being presented/demoed.   I initially started putting together my agenda on July 22 with the IOUG events .  However, after several re-iterations and fine-tuning my schedule I realized that my sessions disappeared from the calendar of the Build Agenda section. I checked the My Agenda section and all my sessions were still there.  Thinking it was a minor glitch of some sort, I wasn't too troubled hoping that things would reappear once the 'glitch' was worked out.  I forgot about it after several weeks and when I finally got around to logging back in I realized that my sessions were not restored.  Seeing that I spent several hours in building the schedule, I really wasn't thrilled about rebuilding from scratch.  I fired off an email to the OpenWorld registration team in the hope that they could help fix the issue.  They re...

Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne and Oracle Develop I decided to try for blogger registration for Oracle OpenWorld this year after hearing many good things from fellow bloggers/tweeters. Surprisingly, Oracle was gracious enough to approve my registration. I say surprisingly because I do not blog very frequently due to the demands of my 'day job', but apparently it met the criteria for blogger registration - go figure.  If you are interested in blogger registration, you can find more info here .  So after booking my hotel and convincing my boss to pay for travel expenses, I explored the schedule builder to discover sessions of interests. There are quite a number of sessions on topics including RAC, Database 11gR2, Automatic Segment Management (ASM), Enterprise Manager Grid Control, Deploying database in the Cloud, and Oracle VM. You can view the content catalog here . Looking forward to soaking up all the information I can as well as networking with peers. OpenWorld 2010 wi...