RE: What was the WORST session at IOUG/Collaborate or OOW you have ever seen

And... I have to add to this.... My first session ever at UKOUG, I think I did 9i New Features ... I was like the first presenter after the keynote. Had room full and I was pretty happy with the presentation and felt pretty smug.

THEN this guy gets on after me and just beats me all to the dickens with an awesome presentation... I felt so embarrassed because *I* the "Oracle 9i New Features author" learned about a new feature I was not aware of (to be fair, this was 9iR2 and at the time I'd not gotten caught up on the R2 new features as well as I should have). I was humbled... skulking down in my chair as he continued to humble me for the next 45 minutes.

I was so impressed and felt like I needed to go back to presenters school or something....

His name...

Connor McDonald...

RF

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• Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> That was the worse session I ever attended. What
> about you?? No need to name
> names, I'm not looking to embarrass anyone...
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> RF
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> Worst talk ever ? Easy. One of my own.
>
> Early-nineties I gave a talk on best practices to my
> work colleagues.
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> Fast forward 15 years, dozens of projects, and two
> continents, and voila,
> I'm back in Perth, and I'm working on a project with
> one of my original work
> mates. She pulls out the 15 year old slides and
> tells me how she's
> religiously following the recommendations... you
> know things like checking
> the buffer cache hit ratio, rebuilding her indexes
> regularly, throwing
> bitmap indexes on high activity tables, stuff like
> that...The only positive
> was that I got the bit about bind variables right...
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> Live and learn I guess...
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