Rittman Mead at RMOUG Training Days 2012, Denver

Mark Rittman -

A week or so ago several of Rittman Mead's consultants were pleased to be taking part in RMOUG Training Days 2012, in Denver, Colorado. RMOUG (Rocky Mountains Oracle User Group) is probably the largest regional Oracle Users Group in the USA, and has a similar DBA-centric, but branching out into other areas-focus to our own UKOUG Conference in the UK. The event took place over three days at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, with Rittman Mead giving six presentations during the event:

The talks were well attended, and it was also great to get to see some of the other presenters, including James Morle on SANs and the rise of SSDs, and of course Cary Millsap's great opening keynote. The Oracle ACE Director program was kind enough to fly me over to Denver, and it was great to catch up with the other Oracle ACEs and ACE Directors during the week. Here's a few photos from the event.

For me, putting my presentations together was tricky, as it wasn't clear how much I'd be able to say about Exalytics, and whether I could cover the new MDS XML feature for the repository, due to not knowing if/when OBIEE 11.1.1.6 was coming out. In the end, 11.1.1.6 didn't come out in time, so I kept the Exalytics talk to "concepts" and left MDS XML repositories out of the OBIEE Deployment & Change Management talk. If you came to the second talk and are interested in how version control is now baked into the Oracle BI Administration tool, check out this post from last week to see what's new.

So my next conference appearance is at the Hotsos Symposium 2012 in Dallas, next week, where I'll be going into a lot more detail about how Exalytics works. As our Exalytics box isn't due to arrive for a few weeks we're unfortunately not able to share any benchmarks yet, but if you're a DBA wondering how you can get all of your BI queries to run super-fast, come along to my talk.