Hotsos Symposium 2009

I’m just back from presenting at the 2009 Hotsos Symposium in Irving, Texas. My session was entitled Using Hotsos Tuning Techniques to Find and Fix Performance Issues: Six Real World Examples. You can download the whitepaper on the Library tab.

This was my first time attending the Hotsos Symposium, and I cannot say enough good things about the experience. The presenters were top-notch and their topics where of exceptional quality and technical depth. If your area of interest or expertise is Oracle performance tuning, then this is the conference you should annually attend. I don’t think I am alone in this belief, as I spoke with several attendees who were covering the cost of the symposium out of their own pockets due to training budget cutbacks at their employers.

While all the presentations were excellent, I particularly enjoyed sessions by Karen Morton, Tanel Poder, Dan Tow, Christian Antognini, Monty Orme, and Jonathan Lewis.