Karen Morton - Hotsos Symposium Training Day 2011

Yep, we got her! The Grand Poobah of SQL, Karen Morton, has agreed to host Hotsos Symposium Training Day 2011.

Training Day will take place on March 10, 2011, and Karen's topic is entitled:

"Managing SQL Performance - Practical Information and Tools for Writing and Maintaining Optimally Performing SQL".

Karen is a consultant and educator who specializes in application optimization, and the aim of her presentation is to make managing SQL performance an engrained and automatic part of your application lifecycle. She will give you tools and techniques to help you write better SQL faster while also helping you to quickly diagnose poorly performing SQL. Karen is an entertaining and engaging speaker. To find out more about what Karen will teach you, please visit the Training Day page to read her abstract.

This is one Training Day you will not want to miss! Register now!

For more information about Hotsos Symposium or Training Day, please call +1.817.488.6200 x520 or send an email to symposium@hotsos.com.

Karen, we can't wait to see you (with or without the hat):

Hotsos Symposium 2011 Registration is Open!

Registration is now open for Hotsos Symposium 2011! The symposium will be
held March 6-10, 2011 at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving, TX.

Visit our registration page today to sign up!

We are offering very special pricing to those who sign up by September 30,
2010. More information about pricing can be found at www.hotsos.com.

Hotsos Symposium is the best value for your dollar, and the best investment
you can make in your career!

Registration Fees* and Target Dates for Discounts are as follows:

• $1095, if registering by September 30, 2010


• $1195, if registering on or before December 31, 2010


• $1350, if registering on or before February 11, 2011


• $1495, if registering on or after February 11, 2011


• $500 for the optional Training Day

*Group discounts are available. Contact Sales today for more information! Or call Rhonda Boswell at +1.817.488.6200 x520 for more information.

Hotsos Symposium 2010

Hotsos Symposium 2010 has finished, presentations have been uploaded, and photos have been posted.

Many of the attendees have told us that this was the best Sym ever! Tom Kyte gave outstanding keynote and technical presentations. Tanel Põder's Training Day was very well-received. Richard Foote gave some brilliant general sessions, and all of the speakers were outstanding.

What more could we ask for? Well...we'd just like you to start thinking about 2011. You won't want to miss it! You never know who you might see (and in what get-up).

Hotsos Symposium 2009 Scrapbook Now Online

We decided to try something new this year with the Symposium scrapbook. We made our digital scrapbook pages then uploaded them to Shutterfly to create the book. Since last year was so much fun, we thought you'd enjoy seeing the preview below. We will have a hard copy available for viewing at the Symposium in March.

We can't wait to get started on the book for 2010! If you haven't signed up yet, go to Hotsos Symposium 2010 Registration today. We hope to see you there!

Click here to view this photo book larger

Hotsos Symposium 2010 Presentation Schedule Now Online

Hotsos is pleased to announce the speaker schedule for each day. Please visit http://www.hotsos.com/sym10/sym_speakers.html to see when your favorite presenter is speaking. Tom Kyte, Tanel Põder, Alex Gorbachev, Cary Millsap, Christian Antognini, Doug Burns, Stephan Haisley and many more are on the agenda.

If you haven't signed up for Symposium 2010, what are you waiting for? Please register now at www.hotsos.com.

Many thanks to Cary Millsap for assisting us with speaker selection and scheduling.

Hotsos Symposium 2010. March 7-11. Irving, TX. Be there.

Complete 2010 Hotsos Education Calendar Posted

The complete calendar for Hotsos Education for 2010 has been posted at http://www.hotsos.com/calendar.html. We are pleased to announce a brand new class entitled Advanced Optimizer Concepts and Performance, which will be offered starting in April.

A thorough understanding of the Oracle Cost-Based Optimizer (CBO) is essential to consistently optimize SQL in a timely manner. Our Optimizing Oracle SQL, Intensive class teaches students a repeatable and reliable systematic method for optimizing SQL, and the underlying knowledge of that methodology is an understanding of the CBO. However, it's impossible to pack a lifetime of information and learning into 5 days. Therefore we've developed Advanced Optimizer Concepts and Performance as the next step in learning more about the CBO.

This new class will help you answer the following questions:

• "What does that cost number mean?"


• "How did the CBO calculate that cost?"


• "Does a lower cost plan ensure better run time performance?"


• "I see a great access path. Why doesn't the CBO use it?"

To find out more about Advanced Optimizer Concepts and Performance, please visit www.hotsos.com.

To register for our classes, please click the link on the calendar. If you need more information, please call Rhonda Boswell at +1.817.488.6200 x520.

Hotsos Symposium 2010 Speakers Announced

We are pleased to announce that the speakers for Hotsos Symposium 2010 have been chosen. Visit www.hotsos.com to find out more!

Registration is open. Sign up now to take advantage of early registration pricing.