#OOW18 is almost there

Oracle Open World 2018 and Oracle Code One 2018 is just around the corner. This will be my 8th time in Oracle Open World and again I will be heavily busy with sessions, networking, demogrounds, community activities and many more.

I will be landing to San Francisco 19th October, Friday afternoon and will attend Oracle ACE Directors Product Briefing sessions all Saturday. Since I already signed my NDA, no news for me until publicly spoken.

I will be talking 2 sessions;

• Even the ACEs make Mistakes – What did they learn? [TIP1989]
  • Annual EMEA ACE Session in 4 minutes each. I’m happy to share the stage with great speakers. Very informative and full of knowledge. Take a look at Debra’s blog post about this session.

• Oracle Data Integrator in the Cloud [TIP3698]
  • I will be talking about moving to Cloud and ways to changing Cloud vendors as well as ODIPC architecture and famous word nowadays “Autonomous Data Integration“. Below is my abstract of my session.

I will be hanging out and helping you guys in “the Groundbreakers Hub“. Come and find me in “the Hub” 22nd October Monday 11:45am – 2:00pm and 23rd October Tuesday 11:45am – 2:00pm. It will be full of fun.!

Of course, expect some more videos from Bob Rhubart and Javed Mohammed, lots of tweets and instagram posts.

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#OUGN18 by OUGNorway is approaching

It is “now” time to post about upcoming OUGN 2018 Vårseminar. Since all 3 of my presentations are ready, all logistics are ready and the other stuff are ready (feeling relaxed).

This will be my second time on the boat. You didn’t misread this or I didn’t mistype, yes the boat! @OUGN performs their conferences on a boat which departs from Oslo to Kiel and returns back to Oslo and here’s how the boat looks like.

ODC Appreciation Day: Using PIVOT for Unknown Dimensions

This post goes to #ThanksODC (formerly known as #ThanksOTN) which is initiated by Tim Hall (aka OracleBase).
But first, story time of this. I prepared this bunch of code (continue reading below please), because of being stubborn of being performance enthusiast. While I was working as a consultant, I was first invited to increase performance of an ETL which is already running on production and was running at least 12 hours per run (monthly). We did our best with the features of the ETL tool, paralleled queries, and managed to reduce it to 8-9 hours. But, “it-was-not-enough”!

After the great #OGhTech17 Conference

It was a long day again (woke up at 3:30am in the morning) to my 7:05 flight to Shiphol Airport. Then took train to Amersfoort. Luckily, the hotel I found was still there with my door card in the reception (this means no early check-in). I get in the elevator, but what? I need to keep my finger on the floor (mine was only 2) to get it moving and snails will go to 2nd floor faster even using the stairs. I still wonder why there is an emergency button, where you need to leave your finger from the floor button to press emergency button. I believe it is there because of regulation. 🙂

#OTNEMEATour it’s a Wrap!

It was a tiring second half of May for me.
I made flights between Istanbul ➙ Helsinki ➙ Istanbul ➙ Baku ➙ Istanbul ➙ Ljubljana ➙ Istanbul ➙ Düsseldorf ➙ Istanbul.

#OTNEMEATour Fifth Leg Düsseldorf

After a early flight again (woke up at 3:30am to catch the 6:50am flight), I landed to Düsseldorf and went to my hotel with one single train and admired the state of public transportation in Düsseldorf.

Gladly, my room was ready and I am off to see the city and attend the speakers’ dinner afterwards. below are some good sightseeings which represents Düsseldorf city.

#OTNEMEATour Third Leg Ljubljana

Touched down to Ljubljana around 8am in the morning and it took me not more than 20 minutes to reach to the hotel with hotel’s shuttle service. I’m glad that my room was ready and go out to see the city immediately. First, I went to three-bridges, then to an ancient castle then to market place and discovered a shopping mall and spent rest of the day there. Ljubljana is a great city for touristic attractions and it is so easy to go everywhere with bus (busses are working almost 24 hours a day).

Ljubljana city visit (Castle Tour)

Ljubljana city visit #1

Ljubljana city visit #2

I came to conference venue – Austria Trend Hotel – right on time with public transportation. And met with Björn Rost, Jure Bratina and Frank Dernoncourt at the gate of the hotel. There were more than 60 attendees and worth 1000s. Questions, attendance and interaction to sessions were amazing. One of the local session, which has to be before lunch, was cancelled. And we decided to make a panel session just before the lunch and we still answering questions although it was overtime. Kudos to audience!!!

Eventually, Björn had 3.5, I had 2.5 and Frank had 2.5 sessions at all, and we – as techie guys – all love to talk.

Ljubljana Conference Day

#OTNEMEATour Second Leg Baku

It was my first time using Istanbul Ataturk Airport (IST) as a transferring passenger and but my flight to Helsinki to Baku has a stop about 1.5 hours in Istanbul. So I managed at 5:20 am to Haydar Aliyev Airport (GYD) and switch to my hotel.

#OTNEMEATour First Leg #Harmony17

After reaching to Helsinki, sleeping on 3 complete empty seats lied down by luck (I left my emergency seat for this reason), I made a small city tour and reached the meeting place (in front of Presidential residence – intentionally mentioned this because it is the real residential palace of Finland President with non-moving soldiers in front of the building) and met with Frits Hoogland and Patrick Barel. Speakers dinner is very well organised on a ancient trade wooden boat and sailing with the power of the wind (rarely with engine when we are behind the schedule) and we were all sailor-man (in real). In spite of sun, it was about 4-5C and some of us was downstairs in order not to get cold because of freezing wind. Please click pictures to enlarge.

OTN EMEA Tour is around the corner

I will be travelling to start OTN EMEA Tour early in tomorrow morning (16th May – Tuesday). Initial thanks goes to Oracle ACE Program and Oracle Technology Network for supporting me to be a part of this event and share my expertise & experience with Oracle users groups that are

My appearances will be as follows;

• Helsinki, OUGF, Harmony 2017 (Speakers, Agenda)
  • 17th May -9:00 am: Is Data Warehouse Dying? (A big thanks to Pasi Jaakola and Susa Schloutz for adding me as opening keynote speaker. I am either flattered, or get more nervous with this brilliant opportunity, don’t miss that session).
  • 18th May – 2:00 pm: Helsinki, OUGF, Harmony 2017, Is Data Warehouse Dying? Speakers, Agenda

• Baku, AzOUG
  • 20th May: EDQ, OGG and ODI over Exadata in the Cloud for Perfection
  • 20th May: Is Data Warehousing dying?
• Ljubljana, SIOUG (Agenda)
  • 23rd May – 09:50 am: Is Data Warehousing dying?
  • 23rd May – 1:30 pm: How to solve complex business requirements with Oracle Data Integrator?
• Düsseldorf, DOAG (Speakers, Agenda)
  • 30th May – 10:15 am: Best Practices with ODI : Flexibility
  • 30th May – 11:15 am: Is Data Warehousing dying?

Again, early flights, being away from home and many potential issues are waiting for me. But, serving back to community… Priceless.!

Hope to meet you in one of the events and stay tunes for my tweets, instagram photos and blog.