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This just in: Win Dinner with Monty at #KScope14

Amazing but true – you can now enter a contest to win dinner with ODTUG President Monty Latiolais at ODTUG’s annual conference KScope14.

This year KScope will be held in beautiful Seattle, Washington from June 22nd – 26th.

Who knows what amazing dinner adventure will be in store for the winner!

Get the details here:

Win Dinner with Monty!.

See you in Seattle!

Kent

The Oracle Data Warrior

P.S. I will be presenting again this year and running my now annual Morning Chi Gung class (more on that later)

Better Data Modeling: The Oracle Data Warrior Speaks!

Looks like I will be doing a bit of speaking this year at a number of  events around the country, and later on, the globe (more on that later).

As usually all my talks will center around using SQL Developer Data Modeler, data modeling standards, Data Vault, agile, or a combination of all of the above.

If you have budget and time, please come out to at least one of these events this year, I would love to meet you in person and talk about the world of Oracle and Data Modeling.

If you aren’t planning to attend one of these – WHY NOT?

These are all great events with tons of learning opportunities. The networking alone is worth the price of admission.

Here is a list of the first three events confirmed on my calendar (and SURPRISE – they are NOT all Oracle related events):

RMOUG Training Days

In less than two weeks: The Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days 2014 in Denver, Colorado. This runs from Feb 5-7 , will have at least 1,000 people and you cannot beat the price.I will be presenting Friday at 1:30PM on how I save my clients big $$ by applying repeatable processes and standards to my data models.

Follow it on twitter with #RMTD14.

Data Vault Consortium

Next up March 20 – 22nd , I will be participating in the 1st ever World Wide Data Vault Consortium and User Group meetup in beautiful northern Vermont near the home of my good friend, the inventor of the The Data Vault Model and Methodology, Dan Linstedt. I will be speaking about agile and data warehousing, using SDDM to do Data Vault modeling, and no doubt engaging in some lively debates with Data Vault experts from around the globe. Check out the agenda on the event page for more details on who will be speaking (hint: Bill Inmon, father of  data warehousing is participating!).

Enterprise Data World 2014

The #EDW14 event is really the annual conference put on by DAMA International and the speaker list is a veritable who’s-who of the data architecture and modeling world. This year the event is in Austin, Texas on April 27 – May 1. Since that is quite close to where I live, I figured I would submit an abstract and I was honored to be accepted. I have attended this event only once before when it was in Denver (a long time ago!) and have been a member of DAMA on and off for years, but this is the first time I have been asked to speak. I am looking forward to it for sure (not sure how I will fit my talk into a 45 minute slot!). Sign up for it here.

If you are planning to attend any of these, drop me a line over Twitter or LinkedIn so we can plan to meet up.

Later.

Kent

The Oracle Data Warrior

Oracle Data Warrior: 2013 in Review

Happy New Year!

I have been busy relaxing with my family on vacation so I decided not to write a full review this year. It was a busy year in many ways (not just blogging!). If you take a look in the right column, you will see a list of recent posts, top posts, and a complete archive by month. Go crazy…

If you want some highlights and details to see what happened on Oracle Data Warrior, check out this cool report provided by WordPress. Below the report I am also posting the link for Jeff Smith’s SQL Developer year-in-review.

Year in Review Report

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for my blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 46,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 17 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Other Reviews

Well my main man Jeff Smith did a nice write up for SQL Developer. Check it out here: www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2013/12/the-best-of-2013-sql-developer-posts/

I was pretty busy on Twitter this year too. Here is a list of my top tweets: https://twitter.com/KentGraziano/timelines/419701819502104577.

For something fun check out the Vizify video link in my twitter profile.

For me, 2014 will be more adventures in Oracle data land, attending conferences, listening in at the BBBT, working with Dan and Sanjay on DV 2.0 stuff, and working to build and improve data models and data warehouses for my clients.

What will you do in 2014?

Cheers!

Kent G

The Oracle Data Warrior

Merry Christmas!

To all my loyal readers, followers, #BBBTers, #ODTUGers, #ChiGungers, #RMOUGers, #DataVaulters, #TKDers, and fellow Oracle #ACEs and #ACEDs, I want to wish you all a

Very Merry Christmas!

Talk to you soon.
Kent

Better Data Models: Early Black Friday Data Model Book Sale!

I am truly thankful for the career I have in Oracle, data modeling and data warehouse design.

And I am thankful for you, my loyal readers and followers!

So, in honor of American Thanksgiving and our crazy Black Friday and Cyber Monday insane shopping addiction, I am putting my Kindle ebook on SALE!

Get my book A Check List for Doing Data Model Design Reviews for 34% off starting 8 AM PST Thanksgiving Day (November 29th).

Just go here on Amazon.com.

This is a limited time sale which ends next week on December 5th.

Get a copy for your favorite data modeler!

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Shopping!

Kent

P.S. For all my overseas friends attending the #UKOUG_Tech13 event next week, you can go here for a similar sale from Sunday December 1st though December 7th.

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