Sunday speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2016

You all know Oracle OpenWorld, right? It's a behemoth of a conference filling up the streets and hotels of San Francisco with many thousands of people moving like ants between conference rooms, checking out exhibitors, hanging around lounging areas, networking, talking, listening, eating, drinking, learning and having fun. And it happens every year...

Oracle Documentation permalink creation

Tim Hall of ORACLE-BASE spoke for a lot of people when he (yet again) wrote about Oracle Documentation links changing all the time. There exists a method for a more permanent link to Oracle Documentation, but it can be a hazzle to create such a permalink involving manually searching HTML code of the doc source (see my comment to Tim's blog post.)

Then I thought that this manual creation of permalink probably could be automated and started to research a bit. The answer is yes, you can get help with a bookmarklet.

OUGN Spring Conference 2016

I'm back after one of the best ocean voyages ever - the OUGN Spring Conference 2016. That conference is arranged by Oracle User Group Norway and is two days from Thursday before lunch-time to Saturday before lunch-time. The special thing is, that it all happens on board a cruise ship that uses 20 hours to sail from Oslo, Norway to Kiel, Germany - stays in Kiel 4 hours - then 20 hours to sail back. During those sailing hours back and forth is one of the best Oracle User Group conferences with 300+ attendees, top notch speakers from around the globe, 100+ sessions, food and drink and networking.

The upcoming year

Right smack in the middle of the busiest time of the year for the business (this time of year we sell fireworks for New Year) I have opportunity to reflect a bit on the upcoming year and what 2016 will bring of challenges and joys.

Vessel Fuel Consumption - or Restarting Running Sum

I got a question recently from Morten Braten whether my FIFO analytic techniques could be helpful for calculating the value of fuel consumption for cargo vessels. It turned out not to be quite the same, but similar. Analytic functions definitely could help.

I'll show how in two parts. First this blog post will calculate the fuel consumption in quantity, then part two will calculate the value by FIFO.

Bloggers Meetup at #OOW15

The last time I went to Oracle OpenWorld, I hadn't started blogging yet. Now I think it fair to call myself "blogger", even though I don't blog very regularly.

So I will try to attend the Bloggers Meetup:

http://www.pythian.com/blog/oracle-openworld-2015-bloggers-meetup/
https://community.oracle.com/events/1099

I have heard a lot of good about it, so I am looking forward to see for myself ;-) Viewing who has RSVP'ed at either link, I know I spot some good people.

(Funny thing though, OTN says the address is 175 4th St, Pythian says it is 101 4th St? I guess I'll be able to find it anyway ;-)

See you all in San Francisco...

Oracle OpenWorld 2015

In 2 days time I fly off to San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Last time I went to OpenWorld was 2008, so I'm looking forward to a re-visit and see how much bigger it has become :-)

Like everybody else I've been making a schedule for the week. Of course things will happen to change the schedule along the way, but some things I definitely have on the must-do list...