Monday and Tuesday were pretty good days. It’s crowded, but manageable and I haven’t had problems attending the sessions that I’ve wanted to see. I was disappointed to learn that I missed Tom Kyte at an OTN meet and greet on Monday. He said it wasn’t that crowded and everyone had a beer in their hand except him. I did get to see him this evening but it was a very crowded session.

There’s been a lot of good information about 11g. I’m really interested in the new Advanced Compression feature. The Active Data Guard and PL/SQL cache also look like big improvements. I think that the advanced compression feature will be compelling enough to motivate me to upgrade a 10g RAC system that I support to 11g.

On another note, Mark Farnham pointed me to an old ACM paper (you may or may not be able to download this paper – I downloaded it this morning for free, but it looks like that may have changed) that provides a lot of background on Oracle’s B*-Tree indexes, or as it appears from this paper, and should be more accurately referred to as a modified B-link Tree indexes.

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