UKOUG Conference 2005 : Day 0
It's Monday morning at about ten to seven, and for the first time in three years at the UKOUG, I've actually had a good night's sleep. My plan to go out on Sunday night and get trashed has obviously worked, so now it's just a chance to catch up with emails and update the website before getting some breakfast and taking a look at the stand.
Yesterday was the Oak Table day, and it was surprising just how many people would be prepared to be at the ICC for 9.30 for a full day's worth of full-on technical presentations. I went to the two Jonathan Lewis ones in the morning - the second of which, on PGA memory management, was particularly relevant for myself given some of the work we've being doing on very large ETL batch processes - but for me the best one of the day was by Graham Wood, on the evolution of time-based tuning from Oracle V2.3 through to 10g.
Following on from the Oak Table presentations Jon Mead and I popped into town for an hour and then it was down to All Bar One for the SIG Chairs and volunteers' free bar. As I mentioned before, this fitted in with my plans quite well as I thought the only way I could get some sleep last night was to have a few drinks and stop worrying about getting some sleep (if you know what I mean) so in the end I spent a very good few hours with Jon, Doug Burns, Andy Johnston (SIG Deputy), Andrew Clarke, Chris Dunscombe, Tim Dexter (the XML Publisher product manager) and, later on in the evening, a few guys (and Charlie) from the company.
That's it for now. I'm chairing Sten Vesterli's PL/SQL talk at about two-ish this afternoon, other than that I'll be at a couple of talks and then on the stand for the rest of the day. I'll post again tomorrow after we've had the bloggers' dinner.
See also : Doug Burns on UKOUG Day 0