Sangam11 – Call for Papers Open

 

AIOUG established in 2007 is growing leaps and bounds every year.  Sangam (meeting of the minds) the annual users conference has been a great success in the past two years.  AIOUG is ready to host its third annual users conference Sangam11 on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th December 2011 @ Bangalore India.

The call to submit your abstracts and take the opportunity to showcase your technical knowledge to the highly demanded Oracle users in the world.

Please submit your papers.. at www.aioug.org = > events => Sangam11 CFP

OTN Tour – South America – 2011 – Day 4

 

My last stop is Peru.  Two weeks away from home meeting with oracle users and giving presentations.  It was fun.  People in south America are very friendly and helpful.  Anyone would answer questions and will stop to show you directions.  For example the cab drivers at Ecuador for example showed me places along the way, explained and answered several questions.  He also had a business card and like it said on the card, he spoke fluent English.

13th July 2011 – Day 4/Stop 4 – Peru

My sessions:

1. Oracle 11gR2 New features in RAC
2. Oracle tools and utilities for monitoring  a RAC environment.

OTN Tour – South America – 2011 – Day 3

 

I have missed posting about my other two stops ..  you know how it is, when you return back to work after a gap of two weeks, you are flooded with stuff to get done.  

11th July 2011 – Day 3 or stop 3 was Colombia. 

at Colombia gave two  presentations,

My Sessions

1. 11gR2 New Features in RAC
2. Tools and Utilities for Monitoring RAC

Colombia really had a mixed but interesting audience.  We had several DBA and developers on the mix and both the tracks where well attended. 

OTN tour team in Colombia

Next and final stop for me is Peru..

OTN Tour – South America – 2011 – Day 2

 

After completing San Jose moving on to Quito, Ecuador.  

Boarded the plane to Quito with a stop over at Panama city.  On landing at the Quito airport I was informed that they found my missing luggage and it was here.. Continental Airlines had found it after 4 days.. hurray.. that was good news

At the event, it is always good to meet other experts from the Oracle area… we had a great team on the OTN tour.

8th July 2011  – Quito – Ecuador

My Sessions

1. New Features in 11gR2 RAC
2. Oracle 11g RAC for Developers
3. Tools and Utilities for Monitoring RAC

Audience seem to be interested however all of them where on translators so really could not understand how much of the presentation they got until the end of the conference. The Q & A to the expert panel had several technical questions.

Something new that I learnt here. Ecuador uses American dollar for their currency bills but uses local coins.  I was told that they switched to this system in 2001.

OTN Tour – South America – 2011 – Day 1

 

We are part of an Oracle OTN tour covering South America.  This is one of the ways you give back to the Oracle community by educating them and informing them about the latest and greatest available in Oracle technology space. 

As part of the group of ACE directors traveling in South America, I am speaking/presenting in 4 locations.  Starting with Costa Rica and ending in Peru.  The tour goes on beyond Peru to other countries but my share is 4 countries spread over a two week period.

5th July 2011  – San Jose – Costa Rica

I presented three sessions at San Jose, 

1. Using Oracle Result Cache Features in Oracle 11g RAC
2. Oracle 11g RAC for Developers
3. Tools and Utilities for Monitoring RAC

Had an excellent audience.  It was interested to note the amount of interaction that most DBA’s bring to the table in the form of questions and experiences. All the three sessions had both beginners and current RAC users and provided a mix of interest.

 

Being in Costa Rica was like being at home.  This tropical country is so similar from several angles to the small state called Kerala, in India where I am from.  The plants, the fruits the way the houses are constructed are so similar that apart from the language everything was very close. I enjoyed the fruits and food. The people here are very friendly.   For a minute I felt home sick looking at the nature, I am sure if I was not busy with the presentations and the preparation I would have wanted to go to India instead of continue the tour.  

San Jose – Costa Rica is done and moving on to Quito, Ecuador