Collaborate 10

Mark recently mentioned that he would joining Stewart Bryson (the Managing Director of Rittman Mead America) as speakers at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010. But before that June meeting both Mark and I will be joining Stewart at Collaborate 10 in Las Vegas. This year Collaborate will have BIWA feel about it as is running BIWA Training Days (a sort of conference within a conference)

I will be giving a new presentation called "Getting Real - Data Warehouse Loading As It Happens" which will discuss some of the challenges of realtime data acquisition, starting with my premise that Real Time doesn't really exist....there will always be some lag, even if you query the source directly. I intend to touch on replication, direct query of source, change propagation and of course the things that GoldenGate now brings to the Oracle table. There will also be space for a bit of pragmatic cheating - how to make things look real-time when they are not, and of course fit in the warning that "just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should".

Mark will be busy with two sessions - a Deep Dive, all-day session on OBIEE on Sunday 18th and look at OWB 11gR2 the next day; Stewart will talk about DW fault tolerance.

I am looking forward to being in Vegas - the chance to hear some good talks and to meet some old friends.