Less than two months to UKOUG

Doug Burns once said to me (and I hope he does not mind me misquoting him) that he values the UKOUG annual conference (December 2007, Birmingham) highly enough to give up his own time (and earnings) to attend. I think I know what he means.

For various reasons I am not going to present at the meeting this year; I will reveal some of the reasons in the next few days, but of course the main reason for me not to get in is that there are far too many excellent abstracts around, and a lot of new BI stuff to talk about.

I was not even sure that I would attend the conference this year (again, more on that later) But an email from the organisers and a good read through the agenda shows me that there will be a lot of sessions that are worth attending, as ever I will mix my dippings between topics that fit in my large database / data warehouse / data mining /BI horizon and those that intrigue me or I feel that the well rounded consultant should know about.

Hopefully, I will get more time this year to visit the presentations I want to see; last year I was working as the system architect on the data migration from hell and the only thing that stopped me from being forced to the customer site was that nobody else in my company would present my paper or chair the sessions I had volunteered to look after. As I see it, this year that is not going to happen.