The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for my blog. Not as many posts as 2013 (I was way busy), but sure got a lot more traffic than I realized!
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 58,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 21 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Back in September at the now annual OakTable world (OTW) at Oracle OpenWorld, I was privileged to give a talk where I ranted a bit about some of the worst data warehouse design mistakes that I have seen.
Well, if you missed out, now you can see that talk thanks to Kyle Hailey who had all the OTW talks videoed. This week, he tweeted that the video was ready for viewing.
So if you missed the talk, or just want to see it again, check it out!
Kent
The Oracle Data Warrior
P.S. If you would like to have me do this very fun presentation at your company or meeting, I would be happy to discuss arrangements with you. You know how to find me so drop me a comment, email, tweet, FB, DM, or even call 🙂
Hi gang!
As you can guess by my lack of recent posts, I have been very busy this fall. Along with client work, home life, and editing a really cool book on SQL Developer Data Modeler, I have also been prepping for my annual pilgrimage to Moscone Center in San Francisco for Oracle Open World and OakTable World 2014.
As usual, there will be much to see, do, and learn at what is arguably the largest (60k+ people) gathering of Oracle users and experts in the world. Expect big news from Oracle Corp, great sessions from Oracle ACEs and ACE Directors, and of course the annual customer appreciation event.
So here is my short list of what to check out this year:
Annual ODTUG Sunday Symposiums: http://www.odtug.com/oracleopenworld2014Sunday
ODTUG’s best speakers during the week: http://www.odtug.com/oracleopenworld2014
OOW Executive Keynotes: https://www.oracle.com/openworld/keynotes/index.html
For all the sessions by day, check the main Content Catalog (over 2028 sessions): https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2014/connect/search.ww#loadSearch-event=null&searchPhrase=&searchType=session&tc=0&sortBy=&p=&i%2810009%29=10105
OakTable World 2014: http://www.oraclerealworld.com/oaktable-world/agenda/
This year I will again have the honor or presenting at OakTable World on Tuesday, September 29. I will give a data warehouse design session in the morning, then do a short TED-style talk over lunch about a Data Vault 2.0 innovation using MD5 hash functions.
If you have not heard of OTW, it is a FREE event co-located with OOW (http://www.oraclerealworld.com/oaktable-world/location/). It was organized by members of the elite OakTable and is in its third (or fourth?) year. Be sure to stop by and say hi!
As for special events, I plan to participate in the Run/Walk the Bridge on Sunday morning, the 3rd annual Swim the Bay on Monday and I will again do some Morning Chi Gung with a few friends (follow me on Twitter for where and when).
So there are lots of opportnities to meet up.
See you there!
Kent
The Oracle Data Warrior
p.s. Later next week I will be at Oracle HQ at the annual ACE Directors briefing. Watch my Twitter feed for pictures and updates.
After much anticipation the new Release 1 of Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2) is finally available!
Get it here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/overview/index.html
What does this mean:
As they say…this is BIG. Get more details about In Memory here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/in-memory/overview/index.html
I am very excited about the possibilities of what we can do with this technology. It will be a game changer especially for those of us trying to do agile data warehousing and business intelligence.
Now we can talk about having big data in memory – quickly accessible so it can be used.
Anyway, it is a big day in Oracle-land.
Now if I can just get my client to upgrade….
Cheers.
Kent
The Oracle Data Warrior
Guest Blog Link: Virtualising your Data Vault – Satellites
This is a MUST READ for anyone wanting to get Agile in their DW/BI program and for anyone doing Data Vault 2.0.
Actually anyone doing Data Vault 1.0 can benefit from the technique as well.
Roelant Vos has done quite a bit on trying to virtualize and automate data warehouses using DV 2.0 (especially since the WWDVC in Vermont.). Please check out his blog and follow him on twitter too.
Cheers
Kent
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