About the “don’t look here” link, the top picture there is of our good friend from Holland, who was part of a record attempt that I’m afraid I came up with:

Let’s see if 15 men can go down the biggest water slide in less than seven seconds (forget all that stuff with green and red lights, etc.).

Well, we succeeded. However, not without casualties, as you can tell.

This year we must beat the record somehow. I have talked to hairy and scary guys (Oracle DBA’s, mind you) who have pointed out that you can actually overtake another person on the way down the water slide (which is inside a pipe). If that is true we can inject a degree of parallelism previously unheard of in this honorable disciplin. Or we could set off in pairs.

Best regards,

Mogens

We’ll see, Marco, we’ll see …

;-)

Yeah, and you are correct. We (alex and me) will be able to say to our offspring: “Hey listen, we were there first. On the first MOO ever” in a time that nobody will remember “the last database forum” ever anyway.

:-)

I almost left a comment on this blog last night, but was busy. The comment would have said something like :-

“Lucky guy, you’ll enjoy it loads and I hope I’ll be back there soon. Then again, I can’t really be ‘back there’ as such because I was at the very last final database forum ever, honest’ whereas you are at the start of a whole new institution!’

The key point here is “and not planing to come again…”

Maybe I have such plans!

;-)

I don’t think so but I’m sure Doug won’t miss to comment here.
To my knowledge, he doesn’t make it this year for a reason. This is unfortunate, but that doesn’t mean he is not looking forward for the next years.

This remark will hurt Doug…