Hotsos Symposium 2009 Day 2

Bright and early on a Tuesday morning, attendees gathered for the first presentation of the day:



Cary Millsap delivers an entertaining presentation on "Lessons Learned v2009.03":



In this photo, Dan Tow convinces attendees to just say "no" to the safe use of views:



Margaret Norman teaches attendees how to control their environments with the Resource Manager:



Tanel Põder tells us how Oracle SQL Plan Execution really works in this session.



Amit Poddar's presentation was entitled "One-Pass Distinct Sampling".



Toon Koppelaars presents "The Helsinki Declaration, Part I" before lunch:



Mark Bobak and Jan van Mourik have their picture taken with Flat Larry during break:



He's ba-a-a-ack! Toon Koppelaars gives Part II of "The Helsinki Declaration" after lunch:



Below, Dave Abercrombie gives us a captivating tour of the AWR tables:



I'm sure that Bryn Llewellyn gave a very interesting talk on "Using the PL/SQL Hierarchical Performance Profiler". Such a character, he is...



Mark Williams taught us that "Instrumented Code is Better Code":



Oh! And Kerry Osborne and Stephan Haisley pulled the old switch-a-roo on the attendees just to keep them guessing. Stephan spoke about "Streams Optimization and Diagnostics".



Christian Antognini presented "Bloom Filters":



Hotsos' own, Monty Orme, facilitated the speaker panel after the last session:



And finally...the speaker panel:



What a great day it was! Stay tuned for Day 3...