Conferences 2017

Last year I’ve been to a few conferences. At some point I thought I need to record some of the sessions to let more people see them as well.
So I took a cheap action camera & recorded several presentations. Video quality is not good (mostly) due to lighting but still is enough to get an idea of how was it back there in a room.
Here’re links to the videos. Enjoy!

Hatem Mahmoud – Memory Access Tracing/Profiling

Jonathan Lewis – Just Don’t Do It

Panel Discussion at POUG2017

Marcin Przepiorowski – dNFS for DBAs

Neil Chandler – Why Has My Plan Changed

Timur Akhmadeev – Common Pitfalls in Complex Apps Performance Troubleshooting (same presentation in Russian at Russian OUG meetup in Moscow)

Neil Chandler – Histograms are Evil like Chocolate is Evil (part of the same presentation recorded in Poland as well)

Kamil Stawiarski – VOODOO: the black magic of cheep cross database replication

Roger MacNicol – Table Access Full

Mike Dietrich – Ensure Performance Stability When Upgrading Oracle Database

Adam Bolinski – High Performance Oracle Environment on Not Only NFS

Hotsos 2016 Recap

I wanted to go to Hotsos Symposium for quite some time, having heard so many great topics from there for years. And every time I was a bit lazy to think about what I can talk about. Apparently I thought that everything I know is well covered elsewhere, so why would I be accepted. Plus all these complexities of budget, getting a visa, travel arrangements, jet lag, and personal matters in between. Last year, when call for papers was still open, I realized that there’s a good chance I can make it to Hotsos in 2016: I had a budget, visa is a doable thing, and most importantly I knew I had a topic to talk about which most likely will not be in competition with other speakers.