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Today is Hotsos Symposium 2008 Training Day — one full day with Tom Kyte. FInd out how I spent my last day at the Hotsos Symposium 2008.

The symposia is still ongoing and my head is slowly filling up — relieved from my presentation, finally, I’m able to focus on others’ sessions. I attended Wolfgang Breitling’s presentation on “Active Statistics”. He provided a lot of insights into statistics gathering options and emphasized lots of new features in 11g. Have a look at my post to read about some of the other great presentations I attended.

I’m on the plane back to Canada and I’m extremely satisfied with the UKOUG conference this year. Find out about the last day highlights and post conference exploits here.

I decided to go to a presentation about Enterprise Manager. My own presentation went probably well as far as I could judge following up with people later in the day.Just before my session I bumped into Jonathan Lewis during lunch time and he asked me if it’s true that I fell asleep in the middle of his session. To give you some background,

Well, this was a nice Oracle Bloggers Meetup this year. It was less crowded compare to last year which is a bit surprising if you think about it — there are more and more Oracle bloggers around. On the other hand, it let me focus more talking to participants of Oracle blogosphere and other social networking Oracle related crowd and I met quite a few new faces.

Tom Kyte’s keynote on 11g (original OOW version is here) started with a poll — out of few hundred people there were 13 that worked with Oracle 4, 2 – with Oracle 3 and no one working with Oracle version 2 (version 1 didn’t exist as we all know now). Interesting that since 1994 we had new release every year on average — impressive pace. The next session was from Tom Dale — “Virtualization in Production”, then scaling 6 node RAC cluster at CERN by Eric Grancher and Anton Topurov, my last session of the day was Joel Goodman’s — Oracle 10g: RAC Tuning Tips. I’m well rested now and it’s important as I won’t get much sleep this night and could fall asleep during my own presentation tomorrow. Stay tuned!

The first session I attended this morning was “Creating a data grid using Oracle Coherence. It was “hands-on”, so we were supposed to bring our laptops to install software and he was going to do demos. NO ONE in the room brought their laptop. In the afternoon I went to Ramesh Naidu’s presentation on Cluster-wide monitoring for RAC. It covered all the components in a RAC Cluster that need monitoring and the importance of doing so, including Cluster services, ASM, network and database.

Regardless of my unfortunate early wake up, the day started great. I spent a couple hours reviewing and tightening up my block change tracking presentation. Unfortunately, just before the beginning I realized that one animated slide was completely screwed up and I wasn’t able to fix it on time so I apologize to the audience once again — it will be uploaded fixed. Other than that screwed up slide, the presentation went very well.

I’ve got up at 6:30 today (it becomes a bad habit) because my phone started to make annoying sounds at 5:45 — it’s way too clever about meeting reminders and timezone-aware. OK. Time to move now — the second day of AUSOUG 2007 in Melbourne is about to start…

I registered at about 8:30 and went to the speaker prep. room. I was looking for internet there but…