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As the the Icelandic volcano ashes are clearing out and we finally have high hopes of flight home, I want to post the slides of the two presentations I did.

My first presentation was a double slot session about Oracle Clusterware internals. Presenting first thing in the morning on the first day is not easy at this event. Miracle Open World traditionally organized as 160% conference with 80% of technical content and 80% of networking and social interactions. Of course, the last 80% go deep into the night. Needless to say that 5am wake up call was tough — I had to craft few more slides to add some 11gR2 information and publish the first production of We Do Not Use TV Studio.

But I felt surprisingly well and fresh. The presentation itself was quite dynamic and all demos worked as planned except pausing OPROCD — 50/50 that eviction happens during my actions and it took me 10 time to repeat it. I couldn’t recall that I was lucky more than twice in a row until that session but… things happen. You can see the slides below for the reference. However, without the text and demos behind the slides, they are not very useful I’m afraid.
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I’m in Denmark these days at the wonderful Oracle conference organized by Miracle A/S — Miracle OpenWorld 2010. This is the sort of 80/80 conferences that we all love — we spend 80% of our time on technical content and 80% on networking with your peer. Of course, you have to sacrifice something like sleep but such is life.

Opening session was something special this year (as if it’s non-special any other year) — Jonathan Lewis was talking about something that he admitted he is not an expert in! He was presenting about Microsoft SQL Server and whether it’s and Enterprise-ready RDBMS. His conclusions were positive.

The opening was rounded up with a new film production demo from We Do Not Use TV Studio.
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