News on 2006 Presentations and Papers

I've just had two of my presentations accepted for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 conference in Washington D.C. next June.

The first presentation I'll be doing is the "Oracle XML Publisher - What's It All About?" presentation that I recently gave at the UKOUG BIRT SIG, and that I'll also be delivering at the ODTUG Virtual Conference 2006 on Tuesday, 21st February (agenda here, warning it's a PDF). Hopefully by the time that the Virtual Conference comes along, version 5.6 of XML Publisher should be out and I'll be able to do a demo as well.

The other presentation that's been accepted is "Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture using OWB10gR2", where I'll be looking at the various architecture options that OWB10g "Paris" gives you - MOLAP or ROLAP, slowly changing dimensions, partitioning and so on - and seeing how they can be used to put together an effective, performant "layered" data warehouse. This one should be interesting (assuming that Paris will be out by then...) and I'm hoping to to come out with some best practice-style recommendations as to which features to use and when.

If you found my recent DBAZine articles on Oracle OLAP performance tuning useful, the other ODTUG Virtual Conference talk I'll be doing will be "Best Practices for the Oracle Database 10g OLAP Option" which will be based on the ideas and examples in the articles. This presentation is also on the "reserve" list for the ODTUG event in Washington so if someone else drops out, I'll be doing this one as well. As preparation for the two events I've tidied up the DBAZine articles and put them together into a single MS Word document that you can download here.

Finally, if you're interested, I should also be over at the Collaborate'06 event in Nashville in April 2006, doing two presentations, one of which will be a joint presentation on some OLAP and BI Beans work we've done with Matt Wertheim over at QDecisions, and the other on integrating the OLAP Option with XML Publisher, and I'll also be doing the "Oracle BI 10g - The Complete Picture" presentation again (minus the laptop crashing just before the talk) at the Irish Oracle Conference & Exhibition on the 22nd March in Dublin.