Scottish Oracle Conference
I recently spent a rather pleasant day at the scottish conference of the ukoug. This was held at the Radisson SAS Hotel just by the central rail station and split into a number of streams, from management through to dba. The organisation of the event was excellent, particularly given the fact that some of the infrastructure for various exhibitors didn’t actually arrive until about 3 in the morning of the day of the event.
I was there primarily to give one of my newer presentations Is Oracle Smarter than Your DBA?, which isn’t actually intended as a snub to your DBA team, but rather a plea for more traditional dbas to consider smartly using the automation features, and enterprise management offering from Oracle to reduce the amount of time spent in mundane routine checks and actions, so that the expensive and well trained brains of your DBAs can be devoted to high value actvities, for example design advice, rather than easily automated maintenance – for example adding datafiles. I’ll also be giving this presentation, but hopefully in a much more polished manner at the annual conference in Birmingham.