The Sym party is STEAMPUNK!!

Did someone get me this for Christmas?

The speakers have been chosen for Sym ’12!!

Check it out here.  Looks like a super line up of speakers as always. 

Make sure you sign up soon if you haven't already.

See you there!!

4th ANNUAL MICHIGAN ORACLE USER SUMMIT

Everyone come on down to the 4th Annual Michigan Oracle User Summit

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011  8AM to 5PM

Schoolcraft College-VisTaTech Center, Livonia, MI

This event has it all:

Vendor Meet & Greet and Continental Breakfast 

Sessions Galore with 50+ Presentations!

Presentations and Product Reviews Running throughout

Oracle User Groups Update 
 
*LUNCH*

Wine & Cheese – Social Networking Hour

I'll be speaking there with many others.  It's sure to be a good time and a great time to meet with other Oracle folks.  See you there!!

Jonathan Lewis, for Hotsos Training Day 2012

 As if you really need another reason to come to the 10th anniversary Hotsos Symposium extravaganza, this has got to be way up there on the list: Jonathan Lewis is doing the training day on the 8th of March!!

Go here for details: Hotsos Training Day

This is going to be a great event.  Be there.

Lex DeHaan

Today I was leafing thru "Master Oracle SQL and SQL*PLUS" by Lex DeHaan looking up some SQLPlus command that I had forgotten the exact syntax for and in the back I found some printed notes of my last communications with Lex.  One was a short chat we had via Skype and the other was a note that I sent just before he passed on.

It was January 2006 when Lex moved on to the next adventure.  I had the extreme pleasure to call him both a friend and a colleague.  He and I worked together at Oracle.  My first contact with him was while I was an instructor and he sent me some scripts to demo something in class, I've long forgotten exactly what it was.  Then I work with him while in Curriculum Development in the Server Technologies group. We were in different teams but worked together often.

I truly miss him and his every ready "I disagree" when we'd get off into slightly more theoretical talk, typically over tall glasses of dark brew!

He is still helping me today thru this book and his other ones.

Lex, as I said in my note to you back then, you will be missed in small and large places in small and large ways.  Thanks for everything Lex. 

Wanted: An Oracle Instructor

Hotsos is looking for an instructor who can teach 5 days of intensive SQL optimization techniques to classes of up to 15 students anywhere in the world. Expect travel to be near 100% and to teach up to 3-4 weeks a month. Extensive Oracle SQL experience is a must as is a good understanding of basic Oracle instance and database architecture.


Do you think you have what it takes? Send a resume to jobs@hotsos.com