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

In fact, one of the worst was one of my own presentations too.... It was, I think, the first one I gave at IOUG-A. It was a great topic, but it was terribly disjointed and was not nearly technical enough. I seem to remember seeing Cary Millsap in the crowd and being horrified.

I did somewhat redeem myself later with a better 9i New Features presentation I think though...

Robert

• 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.
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> 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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