Public Appearances

13th June	Linlithgow (UK): I’ll be doing a couple of presentations at the UKOUG Scottish Conference (full agenda now available)- “Beating the Oracle Optimizer (7 ways to optimise a two-table join)” and “Redo”.
19th June	Birmingham (UK): I’ll being presenting at a UKOUG Database SIG event on the topic “New strategies for statistics in 11g”. The presentation will examine some of the new statistics you can gather, and how you should gather them. The event will be held at Oracle’s offices at BVP.
25th – 27th June	San Antonio, Texas: I’ll be at ODTUG Kscope12, with three 60 minute presentations: Single Table Access Paths (Monday 10:00 am), How to Optimize a two-table join (Tuesday 11:30 am), and Beating the Oracle Optimizer (Wednesday 11:15). The full agenda is available at this URL. Update – I’ve just been volunteered to sit on a panel session on Monday at 4:15 with Cary Millsap, Maria Colgan, Dan Norris and Tim Gorman – it’s been billed as the “Database Experts Panel Q&A”, with maximum time to be spent answering questions from the audience. Could be fun, definitely a good set of panellist. Update 2 – I’ve also been asked by the OTN people to host one of the  “Lunch and Learn” sessions. This will be on Tuesday from 12:30 to 14:00.
28th – 29th June	Dallas, Texas: For those of you who can’t manage to get three days for ODTUG, John Goodhue and the Dallas Oracle User Group have arranged a pair of one-day events in Dallas: Beating the Optimizer and Troubleshooting and Tuning. For registration details see the Speak-Tech home page (I’ll also be squeezing in a free evening session on 28th – provisionally the same “New strategies for statistics in 11g” that I will have done for the UKOUG on 19th).
5th July	Dusseldorf, Germany: I will be presenting the “Indexing Strategies” tutorial. This trip is being arranged by Oracle University under their “Celebrity Seminar” series.
13th – 17th Aug	US: (provisional): I will be participating in an Exadata event with Enkitec in Texas, following which I may be running one  of my single days events in Colorado,  speaking at the NoCOUG conference in California followed by another of my single day events. It looks like it might be a busy week.
24thSep – 5th Oct	San Francisco (provisional): I’ll probably be going out to OpenWorld this year – I’ve put in a couple of abstracts – and may be in the region a few days ahead of time.
10th Oct	London (UK) (provisional): There’s a UKOUG database SIG event in London; nothing arranged yet, but I’ll be volunteering to do a presentation (or discussion session).
5th - 6th Nov	Baden, Switzerland: I will be presenting two of my tutorials, probably “Designing Optimal SQL”, and “Troubleshooting and Tuning”. This trip is being arranged by Oracle University under their “Celebrity Seminar” series.
8th-9th Nov	Munich, Germany: I will be presenting two of my tutorials, probably “Designing Optimal SQL”, and “Troubleshooting and Tuning”. This trip is being arranged by Oracle University under their “Celebrity Seminar” series.
3rd – 5th Dec	Birmingham (UK): It’s the UKOUG annual conference – I’ll be sending in a couple of abstracts, and probably volunteer to do a round-table event.
December	Zurich (Switzerland): Dates to be determined, but Trivadis will be running their “Training Days” again this year, and I’ve volunteered to do a couple of presentations there.