Will the Optimizer Team be at Oracle Open World 2009?

With only two and a half months to go until Oracle Open World in San Francisco, October 11-15th, we have gotten several requests asking if we plan to present any session at the conference.

We have two session and a demo station in the Database campground at this year's show. We will give a technical presentation on What to Expect from the Oracle Optimizer When Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g and the Oracle Optimizer Roundtable.

The technical session, which is on Tuesday Oct 13 at 2:30 pm, gives step by step instructions and detailed examples of how to use the new 11g features to ensure your upgrade goes smoothly and without any SQL plan regressions.

The roundtable, which is on Thursday Oct. 15th at 10:30 am, will give you a first hand opportunity to pose you burning Optimizer and statistics questions directly to a panel of our leading Optimizer developers. In fact if you plan to attend the roundtable and already know what questions you would like to ask, then please send them to us via email and we will be sure to include them. Other wise, you can hand in your questions at our demo station at any stage during the week, or as you enter the actual session. Just be sure to write your questions in clear block capitals!

We look forward to seeing you all at Oracle Open World.

Maria Colgan

Will the Optimizer development team be at Oracle Open World?

The largest gathering of Oracle customers, partners, developers, and technology enthusiasts will happen in September when Oracle will host its annual user conference Open World in San Francisco and the Optimizer development group will be there! You will have two opportunities to meet the team -- attend the technical presentation "Inside the 11g Optimizer - Removing the mystery" on Tuesday morning at 9am or stop by the Oracle demo grounds (in Moscone West) to see all of the demos for the 11g new features and ask the development team any burning questions you may have!

Maria Colgan

UK Oracle User Group Conference Dec 3-6

This week the UK Oracle User Group will host their annual Conference and Exhibition at the International Convention Centre Birmingham. There will be over 330 sessions at the conference and the Optimizer will star in at least 5 of them. One you'll really want to attend is on Tuesday Dec 4th at 15:55, when Lilian Hobbs will explain the new features added to the Optimizer in 11g. Lilian's session is called 'Inside the Oracle Database 11g Optimizer'. So, if you are in the area and get chance to go to the conference, check out this session and let us know what you think of the new features!