Monday, September 14, 2009

All About Grouping at OOW and UKOUG

My plan for 2009 was to try to do a presentation about grouping in SQL at both Oracle OpenWorld and at UKOUG. I submitted abstracts for both conferences. Unfortunately, the session was not selected for Oracle OpenWorld. Not very surprising really, since it is about functionality that was introduced in versions 8 and 9, so I can imagine other subjects are more important for Oracle. A bit later I read this post by Jonathan Lewis about the UKOUG conference, where Jonathan writes about more than 200 abstracts for 55 slots and a very high standard this year. So I started assuming that I would not be giving my presentation this year at all.

I did receive some good news though: CIBER management selected two people to visit Oracle OpenWorld, and I was one of them. Thanks Erik and Roel! A week later, I was totally surprised but delighted to receive an email telling that my session was selected for UKOUG. The agenda has been put online a couple of days ago, so you can see the proof here. And I was able to reserve a spot for Oracle OpenWorld's Unconference. So now I will be giving the presentation two times.

Details:
- Thursday 15th October 10 AM, at Oracle OpenWorld, Unconference, Moscone West Overlook I
- Wednesday 2nd December 13:50 - 14:50, at UKOUG Conference Series Technology & E-Business Suite, Track 3, Server Technology stream

You can read the UKOUG abstract here. If you are visiting one of those conferences, I hope to see you there.

Posted by Rob van Wijk at 8:53 PM

7 comments:

  1. BoneistSeptember 15, 2009 at 12:27 AM

    It definitely caught my eye for UKOUG; I'm more than likely going to go and if so, yours is one of the presentations that I'm hoping to go to!

    'T will be nice to be able to put a face to the name *{:-)

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  2. Chen ShapiraSeptember 15, 2009 at 2:50 AM

    Congrats for getting selected to present at UKOUG! I'm sure you'll have a marvelous time!

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  3. Chen ShapiraSeptember 15, 2009 at 2:51 AM

    (Oh, and looking forward to seeing you again at OOW!)

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  4. Rob van WijkSeptember 15, 2009 at 11:06 PM

    Hi Boneist,

    I suppose I can recognize you by your trombone carrying bag :-)
    See you in Birmingham.

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  5. Rob van WijkSeptember 15, 2009 at 11:10 PM

    Hi Chen,

    Thanks, and see you in San Francisco. Did you sign up for the ACE dinner?

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  6. Chen ShapiraSeptember 17, 2009 at 1:10 AM

    ace dinner? I'm not sure I saw an invitation... I guess the answer is no.
    I'll check with Lillian if its too late to sign up :)

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  7. BoneistSeptember 17, 2009 at 5:18 PM

    *laughs* I will most definitely *NOT* be bringing my trombone; too heavy to walk around with, even if I do have a new case that I can carry on my back, and a pain to carry on the train!

    But there may well be something else trombone-related that you'll be able to recognise me by *{;-)

    I'm all booked up now, so will definitely be there... can't wait! *{:-D

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