Well, I just got back from Openworld /2000 ... a few observations and things
to share...
- SF is a great town had a lot of fun. Lots of Oracle stuff everywhere!
- Got to meet some great people (Rachel Carmichael, Guy Harrison, Eyal
Aronoff) forgive me for the spelling!
- 9i is supposed to be released in May 2001(Yeah right!)
- 9i has alot of new and potentially scary features. One that comes to mind
is the fact that somehow you can "uncommit" a committed transaction. I am
not sure how they do this, but they showed us a committed transaction and
then they "uncommitted" it. Even if this works, how can we keep the users
from finding out about it? HE HE..
- Seemed to be alot of emphasis from Oracle on Oracle Tools "helping" the
DBA do his job better by removing many of the "mundane" tasks. I am not sure
if this is a good thing or not, how much power and flexibility will be lose?
- Check out Oracle DataGuard for Solaris...automation of hot standby db
switchover via Korn shell scripts and a few Pro*C programs. Pretty cool, but
I wonder how much they will charge for this..
- All Oracle tools are supposed to be bundled into 2 tools; 1 -Data Server
or 2 - Internet Application Server. This should be interesting...
- Presentations by Rachel, Ari and Roger Schrag (as well as most of the
others) were great!! Can't wait for the whitepapaer URL...
All in all, alot of fluff and a few general overviews of new features that
we may or may not end up seeing. I will have to keep my eye on this 91
thingee...See ya next year in December! ( 2nd - 6th).
I would be interested in anyone other thoughts from anyone else that
attended.
Received on Wed Oct 04 2000 - 23:31:49 CDT
