RMOUG in the Books

It was another excellent year at RMOUG, or the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group for the laymen in the audience. This is the first Oracle conference I can remember where I was the sole Rittman Mead speaker. That is because Mark Rittman has been so busy lately with Oracle Master Classes, and Borkur Steingrimsson, who was originally scheduled to speak, had client obligations that prevented him from flying over.

Counting the BI/EPM Panel that I participated on (thanks to Shyam for including me, and for attending two of my sessions), I had four presentations for the two-day conference. All my sessions were well-attended, and there were a number of participants that came to every single talk. As a conference speaker and community advocate, I can't tell you how gratifying that is, so a very special thank you to the multi-session attendees.

Some of the sessions that I really wanted to see ran concurrently with mine, such as Alex Gorbachev's Exadata talk, and Jean-Pierre Dijcks Parallel-Execution talk. However, I did get to see an excellent talk by Maria Colgan on Optimizer Plan Management (the successor to Stored Outlines and Stats Profiles), which was really, really good. Also, Gary Garrison's presentation "Because Daddy Didn't Buy You an Exadata for Christmas" had to have the best title I have seen in years. Gary discussed Query Rewrite... a subject near and dear to my heart, and one that I covered in my "Delivering a Dimensional Model on the Oracle Database" talk. Gary focused more on Oracle Dimension Objects than mine does, so it had a different twist and I learned a few things I didn't know.

All and all... another great time in Denver. Thanks to Rock Bottom for an excellent meal and a few great pints, and Jean-Pierre and Maria for a nice night on the town.