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pgconf.eu finally kicked off

So, finally it started: Magnus kicked off the 10th annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe this morning in Lisbon. With 450 attendees the conference is even bigger this year than it was last year(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2018: Day 2

By Mouhamadou Diaw Today is my second day of Oracle OpenWorld 2018. I can now go to the Moscone Center without GPS (cool) and then I decided to follow a MySQL session (my boss will be happy). Yes my first(…)

Oracle Open World 2018 D2: Peter Zaitsev – MySQL 8 Field Report

As a former MySQL Consultant during this second day (24.10.2018) I couldn’t miss a session given by Peter Zaitsev founder of Percona and assuming the role of CEO. This session named MySQL 8 Field Report is a kind(…)

Oracle Open World 2018 D2: Mark Hurd’s keynote – Accelerating Growth in the Cloud

During this second day at Oracle Open World 2018 (24.10.2018) I attended to Mark Hurd’s keynote name “Accelerating Growth in the Cloud. Several famous people participated to this keynote such as:(…)

Oracle Open World 2018 D1: Top Five MySQL Query Tuning Tips

Yesterday (22.10.2018) I participated to the Janis Griffin’s session about “Top Five Query Tuning Tips” at #OOW2018. Janis is Senior DBA /Performance Evangelist for SolarWinds and Ace Director. She(…)

SQL Server availability groups, SQL Browser and Shared Memory considerations

Few weeks ago, my colleagues and me discussed availability groups and network considerations for one of our customers including disabling SQL Browser service and shared memory protocol. The point was disabling both features may lead to unexpected behaviors when creating(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2018: Day 1

By Mouhamadou Diaw The first session I assisted today was Oracle Active Data Guard: Best Practices and New Features Deep Dive. This session was done by Nitin Karkhanis Director of Software Development managing the Data Guard Broker development team(…)

Oracle Open World 2018 D1: Microservices Get Rid of Your DBA and Send the DB into Burnout

I had the pleasure to attend this morning (23.10.2018) to the session of Franck Pachot about Microservices. Between 70 and 100 peoples were present in the room to listen the ACE director,(…)

Oracle Open World 2018 D1: Larry Ellison keynote Cloud Gen2

Today (23.10.2018) it was the first time I attended to a Keynote from Larry Ellison and I haven’t been disappointed. Not because of technical information or about true facts and figures but simply because of his charism and Oracle capability(…)

Oracle Open World 2018 D 0: Bike trip starting on Golden Gate

Today (22.10.2018) my colleague Mouhamadou and me had the opportunity to make a bike trip (#BikeB4OOW) organized by Bryn Llewellyn product manager for Oracle PL/SQL and Edition Based Redefinition (EBR). We were(…)