Please Be Patient - Hotsos Symposium Speakers To Be Announced Soon!

We're sure you were all looking forward to our Hotsos Symposium 2012 speaker announcement today, but we had the largest crop of abstracts EVER! We are still tinkering with the final selection to make sure we offer you the best topics and presenters. In the meantime, we've decided on a theme for the Symposium party, and it's "Steampunk". Visit Events to find out more!

Datapump API

Christoph Ruepprich recently gave a presentation to the Dallas Oracle Users Group on the Datapump API. If you'd like to see the slides or look at his demo scripts, check out his blog.

And...if you like his presentation, you ought to check out his dance moves at Hotsos Symposium next year:



Christoph has signed up to present this topic again at the Hotsos SIG on Sunday.

Love those pants, Christoph!

Oracle OpenWorld 2011

We just finished our last trade show of the year with Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Below, Gary Goodman and Kerry Bush were photographed in the Hotsos booth.



If you didn't make it to OOW this year, here are a couple of photos of our slick new booth graphics:




For all of you who stopped by, thank you! Several of our Hotsos Symposium speakers (Jonathan Lewis, Kerry Osborne, Tanel Põder, Tim Gorman and Karl Arao) stopped by. We saw several Symposium attendees and Hotsos customers, too! And it was nice to make some new friends.

Hopefully, we'll see all of you again at Hotsos Symposium 2012!

Only 7 More Days to Submit your Abstract for Hotsos Symposium 2012

There are only seven more days to submit your abstract to Hotsos Symposium 2012! Download the form from www.hotsos.com and get crackin'.

What do you get if you're chosen as a speaker??? You get free admission to Hotsos Symposium 2012 and the optional Training Day with Jonathan Lewis. That's right, free admission. You also get a cool speaker gift, accolades from your peers and the ability to add "Speaker at Hotsos Symposium 2012" to your resume. You even get your name and photo on our website. Say "cheese"!

Send your abstract to symposium@hotsos.com today. Don't delay!

Jonathan Lewis - Training Day 2012

For our 10th anniversary Hotsos Symposium extravaganza, we're bringing back one of your favorite presenters, Jonathan Lewis, for Training Day 2012! Come hear Jonathan speak about "Designing Optimal SQL" on March 8, 2012. Read all about his background and presentation at www.hotsos.com.

Don't forget to sign up before September 30th, 2011 to take advantage of super early bird registration pricing. For more information, contact us at +1.817.488.6200 x520 or send an email to symposium@hotsos.com.

Wanted: An Oracle Instructor

Hotsos is looking for an instructor who can teach 5 days of intensive SQL optimization techniques to classes of up to 15 students anywhere in the world. Expect travel to be near 100% and to teach up to 3-4 weeks a month. Extensive Oracle SQL experience is a must as is a good understanding of basic Oracle instance and database architecture.

Do you think you have what it takes? Send a resume to jobs@hotsos.com

Profiler 5.2.6.6 Released

Hotsos is pleased to announce a new release of Profiler this week. Profiler 5.2.6.6 can be obtained from: https://portal.hotsos.com/products/P5/releases.

This version features:

• Menu item was renamed from Output to Profile Report for clarity.


• The preference "Nanoseconds per 'Microsecond'" has been reworked for clarity. The option has been renamed to "Oracle time unit (s)", with a selection of values .01, .000001, and .000001024.


• Rename entries in Output column from HTML to Profile Report for clarity.


• The Skew Analyzer (p5skew) is now accessible from the GUI in addition to the existing command line access.


• Increased resolution on icons for Windows 7.


• Improved documentation for --ns_per_ms=string command line option.


• A new option has been added to the context menu (right click) of the lower panel: Open Containing Folder. When activated, this will open your operating system's file manager to the location of the trace file and the Profiler output files.

This release also contains several bug fixes, which can be found on the change log on the portal.

For more information about Profiler or a free demo, please contact sales@hotsos.com or call +1.817.488.6200.