I am at the San Francisco airport waiting for my flight to Munich. This OOW was the BEST OOW EVER! I had so much fun… I will write later more but just a quick report now…

On Thursday and Friday I attended the Oracle ACE Director briefing at the Oracle HQ.

On Sunday I was “presenting” in Larry’s keynote on the big screen. Yes, that’s me: the “lady in red” jumping to the “cloud”. That was FUN!

On Monday I got the Devvy award for Database Designing.

On Tuesday I attended the Publisher Seminar the first time (I am working on my second book 😉 but it is still kind of secret so do not tell anybody).

On Wednesday I met Mark Hurd. What makes it SUPER GREAT is that Mark tweeted about our meeting! Thank you Mark! I enjoyed the meeting and I really appreciate you listened what we had to say.

On Thursday I attended the WIT breakfast and signed books.

Great event. I met so many “old” friends, made so many new ones and I learnt a lot. I am so happy and excited. It definitely was worth all the traveling! See you next year again!

Now I am at the Ljubljana airport waiting for my flight home from the amazing tour of SIOUG 2015 and HrOUG 2015.

The HrOUG took place on a beautiful island on Croatian archipelago. I am so calmed by that environment, I simply love the sea.

I had two sessions in the conference and both were extremely well attended. And I especially enjoyed the questions and talking about Data Modeler after my sessions. Thank you for attending! And thank you for your kind feedback 🙂

The HrOUG is famous for its parties, food and drinks. And it did not let us down this time either 😀 Every evening (starting from Monday) there was a party until morning. We did have great fun!

Thank you for letting me attend and speak in this wonderful conference. I really must remember to come back to SIOUG and HrOUG every year!

Now I must run to my plane.

Cheers

Heli

After SIOUG we drove to Rovinj where the HrOUG 20th anniversary conference takes place. It will be held in a huge hotel on an island. The hotel is nice and the room is beautiful but the best was to see Vlado, the vice-president of HrOUG and the organizer of the event ! I have not seen him for a long time. He is wonderful and he always makes everybody feel very welcome. I was too tired after a long day to stay for the party (just dropped by) and therefore I did not have the chance to see Davor (the president of HrOUG) yet, but I am really looking forward to see him tomorrow. As Vlado told me, there will be a big party every night and there is no time to sleep 🙂 But whatever I need my beauty sleep now 😀 Tomorrow I will talk about Data Modeler and how you can compare designs and a database. I might tell a little about reverse engineering too…

I did not realize how much I have missed the HrOUG events! And here I am now, lucky me.

Good night for now,

Heli

It has been some years I was at the SIOUG conference last time and I was extremely glad I could make it this year. I really missed the wonderful SIOUG people! For some reason both SIOUG and HrOUG have always been close to my heart.

The 20th anniversary conference was held in a beautiful town of Portoroz. The conference was two days: Monday and Tuesday. On Monday evening we had a big party with speeches, belly dancers, band and much more. We saw photos from past years and people from those photos were given small gifts. The meal was delicious and the cake was beautiful.

My presentation about database designing using Data Modeler was the last sessions of the last day. I was a bit worried maybe there will not be much people. I worried for no reason: I think there were two seats empty in the whole room 🙂

Thank you so much for attending my session and I hope you enjoyed it and learnt something new. And thank you for making my teenaged son proud of his Mom with your kind comments 😉

Thank you Janez, Elizabeta, Joze, Urban and many more for making the conference such a great event and thank you for letting me come on such a short notice! You are doing a great job!

Cheers

Heli

Not even my family and friends keep track where I travel so I  better tell more detailed 😀

Now I am in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I arrived here yesterday and had a wonderful pizza party with my good friends Joze Senegacnik and Alex Nuijten and of course Joze’s lovely wife Lili. Joze has made this pizza oven himself and the pizzas are the best in the world. Since Alex is also interested in cooking, Joze was teaching him how to make pizzas. And he did learn very well! Excellent pizza!

Now it’s been a slow morning preparing slides, emailing, writing blog posts and packing. Soon we will head to Portoroz where the SIOUG 20th anniversary conference takes place. Congratulations! I will be talking about database designing using Data Modeler. That is one of my favourite topics 🙂 And as usual I will give a copy of my book (http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Developer-Modeler-Database-Mastery/dp/0071850090) away to one of the participants. With my horrible autograph 😉

I look forward to the conference and meeting many of my SIOUG friends. It’s been too long…

See you all soon!

Heli

Yesterday was a busy day for me.

First I attended the Oracle Technology Day in Estonia and was presenting at the OUGE (Oracle User Group Estonia) track. I think it was a great day! I learnt a lot about Apex and I was able to share my knowledge on database designing and Data Modeler to a big audience. I was surprised how much audience they got the event in such a small country! Well done Ilmar and Oracle Estonia! And thank you everyone who attended my session!

After the event I had a dinner with my friend Ilmar who is the president of OUGE. And then to the airport to attend the IOUG webinar about 12c to Developer… Well if something can go wrong it usually goes when it should not… The taxi was supposed to be at the hotel in 5 min, after 30 min still not there… Finally it arrives and then as fast as we can to the airport. Then the security and finding the lounge (the Tallinn airport is quite nice BTW). Starting my laptop and realizing the plug near me does not work. Moving all my belongings to another place. Connecting to the wi-fi… My laptop says there is an error it cannot be fixed, not able to connect. A little bit of troubleshooting and finally connected. Starting my email to see the link for the webinar. Every 30 days my email asks me to give an extra password (for security reasons) and did it ask for that on that particular moment? Of course it did! Then waiting for the SMS with the password, typing it and starting the email. Luckily the link was easy to find and then just waiting what happens next… Connected! You will not believe how surprised I was! Then I set my webcam on and see myself on the screen 🙂 Oh dear, that is all I can say 😀 Luckily we decided we will not use webcams so problem solved. The webinar was really nice, I had fun! We had a panel of three: Steven Feuerstein, Patrick Barel and me. Alexis from IOUG was a great host for the panel! Thank you everybody for attending! I hope you had as much fun as I did!

Now I am home for two days and then to SIOUG (Slovenia) and HrOUG (Croatia)…

Cheers

Heli