BIWA Next Week
November 29th, 2008 by Peter Scott
I am sitting in my room at a Heathrow Airport hotel on my way from Athens (Greece) to San Francisco. My body is still working on Eastern European time and I am beginning to dread the change to the Californian time zone. Still having two days of ‘rest’ (writing time, really) to adjust will help.
I am off to the BIWA summit which is, this year, at Redwood Shores. I will be speaking about using Oracle OLAP 11g Cube Organized Materialzed views in DW summary management (must get a shorter title!) on the first morning (11:10) which means that I get the rest of the conference where I can relax and soak in the sessions, but with up to 6 streams running in parallel there will be a lot that I miss.
Next week my colleagues will be posting from the UKOUG conference and I will do my part by posting some of my experiences at BIWA. So it looks like there will be a lot to read here on the blog.
Oh, and if you happen to see me at BIWA, say hello.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
My worst flight this year! - Engine failure on start-up led to a five hour wait (sitting on the plane) whilst they changed a valve and then a control computer before deciding we needed another plane this meant bus from the engineering stand back to the terminal and a four hour wait for a replacement plane to be free. Just as we were to board an airport vehicle hits the replacement plane and it has to be taken out of service - two more hours to wait - finally away exactly 11 hours late; which meant arriving in San Francisco at 3:45.
Still here now, and looking at the Oracle Campus from my hotel room window - the reflections on the lagoon are stunning