The trains are a nightmare, IT’s a Miracle and how little can you know…: Tanel Põder in Utrecht!

 

Networking and evaluations

Today was the first day of the second Miracle Masterclass this year: Tanel Põder has come to The Netherlands, saw a room filled with a lot of people (he called it the best seminar even before he started, just because of the amount of attendants) and made me feel I have an awful lot to explore yet. However, that is in fact a good thing and it made me get through the “trains nightmare” today with a smile: I had trouble in the morning since I left home far too late, had to cycle as fast as I could and jumped completely exhausted with sour legs into an already late train packed with people, so I had to stand. Good start of the day. And on the way back tonight all trains around Utrecht had trouble because of some “logistic problems”. Eventually I was not unlucky: only a half hour delay, although standing again (great thing a First class ticket to Utrecht, I could really use it 😦 …NOT!). But hey, I said I went through it with a smile. Because this first seminar day was already worth the money. The more new things you hear may make you feel exhausted and even a little frustrated, but at the same time satisfied because the net pay-off is awesome, right?

I had a great two weeks listening to Cary Millsap, Jeff Holt and Tom Kyte

The past two weeks were nice! I had the opportunity to attend two classes presented by three of the most experienced and talented Oracle specialists in the world. January 19-21 it started with “The Masterclass 2009”, organized by Miracle Benelux and hosting Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt. This was a unique opportunity. I believe it was years and years ago that they visited Europe and they never did a presentation before in The Netherlands.

One of the main reasons for this Masterclass was to honour Lex de Haan.

A week later, on January 25-26, Tom Kyte came to Oracle The Netherlands in De Meern. I think nearly 100 people, mostly Dutch but at least some people from abroad (of which a few familiar ones from the week before) could listen to a lot of information on Oracle 11, storage techniques, rebuilds and good comments on binding.