13 Friday Jun 2014
Posted in Events
In Bulgaria at the BGOUG conference. Great day by the way but the evening is super: dancing! After the dinner everybody just starts dancing. I love it. Unfortunately I had to leave in the middle because I decided this morning to change my presentation for tomorrow totally so finishing my brand new presentation now… fun;)
Note to myself: next time remember to practice Bulgarian dances beforehand using the dvd Milena gave long time ago.
Have I ever mentioned that BGOUG is just great?
12 Thursday Jun 2014
Posted in Events
Here I am in a beautiful town of Sandanski in Bulgaria. I am supposed to prepare (finalize, what ever) my new presentation for the conference but I am so full after the delicious speakers’ dinner that I probably must leave it for tomorrow. This place is just amazing and I already feel how my body and soul like this free air and good climate. This place if famous for its mineral water fountains and health therapy. When I fly back home on Sunday I will not just be smarter but also healthier!
Tomorrow it all starts and I know Milena has done such a great job again. Stay tuned.
11 Wednesday Jun 2014
Posted in Events
Woohoo! Going to the OOW14! Happy, happy, happy… Please, please, please come and hear me…
10 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in Database design
Today I passed the certification test for Data Vault 2.0 professionals organised by Daniel Linstedt. I am so proud!
09 Monday Jun 2014
I am Finnish and this is the end (Björn Rost).
The OUGF Harmony 2014 has ended. Sad:( It was such a fun event. I already miss all our great speakers and attendees….
We started on Wednesday with a legendary sightseeing tour by yours truly. My husband could not stop laughing: you do not remember anything and you always get lost, how can YOU run a tour! But I did and I am sure most of the attendees (if not all) will remember this tour for a long time. We started with lunch at Hietalahden Kauppahalli (market hall), saw one mandatory church (Temppeliaukio), several interesting buildings (including National Museum, Parliament House, Finlandia House (“do they make vodka there?”), Kiasma etc) and we stopped very many times for beer (it was a hot day!). I ordered some swans on the Töölönlahti bay and some smaller birds to the water at Kiasma to entertain our guests:) We even experienced the interesting echo at Fazer cafe (my kids love it!). And finally we ended up to the speakers’ dinner in a Viking restaurant Harald. There was plenty of food and plenty of drinks….and plenty of VIKINGS….
The conference officially started on Thursday morning. The busses were waiting for speakers and attendees in the centre of Helsinki to drive them to the Finnish forest. The conference venue is called Haltia in a middle of a nature park of Nuuksio.
The content of the conference was amazing! We had THE C.J. Date explaining temporal data…
And so many other excellent speakers. The audience was really listening…
The speaker of the first day was voted to be James Morle with his excellent keynote presentation. I am very sorry if you missed it:( Second and third place were Tom Kyte and Kent Graziano with several excellent presentations. On the second day speaker of the day was awarded to Graham Wood, second position to Kent Graziano and third place was shared with many of the speakers (it was too difficult to nominate just one).
We had RACAttack…
The first ever SE HA roundtable…
Oaktable World…
DW/BI roundtable with Dan Linstedt…
6 streams, 3 tents…
For two days…
We even needed to ask the trees to help us to guide people to right places…
The venue was beautiful and the weather was sunny and hot. Some of the speakers and attendees decided to have sauna and swim to cool down…
The dinner was served outside and we had a pleasure to enjoy the music by Oracle band.
After the dinner and sauna the busses took people to Helsinki and some brave speakers stayed in the forest to camp with mosquitos…
Just to shock you maybe a little bit more, these pictures have been taken around midnight.
After a looong and good sleep, some very brave men took a swim in a cold lake…
During the conference people had two things to do: learn and make friends. In the end of the conference I asked if they did what I told them to do and YES: 100% of attendees learned new things and made new friends during the conference. SUCCESS!
The conferences was ended with these words (inspired by Björn Rost): I am Finnish and this is the end. And with this picture:
..Thank you and goodbye! See you next year again!
Posted by Helifromfinland | Filed under Events
03 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in Events
We are almost ready for the OUGF Harmony…
Tomorrow it all starts with a lunch and some sightseeing with some of our speakers and then a dinner with all the speakers. The dinner will be served in a viking restaurant. There might be interesting pictures in Twitter tomorrow…
The OUGF Harmony will be a very special conference in a middle of a Finnish forest. First of all the speakers will be top quality (what else!) and the content will be extremely interesting (yep, yep, I have heard this before…nothing special…). There will be six tracks plus three more in tents (What!). Secondly there will be the Oaktable World, RACAttack (special sauna edition! Have you ever installed RAC in a sauna? This is your chance…), world premier on SE HA (with special, numbered t-shirts!), among others. Thirdly the speakers will spend the night in a tent in the middle of the forest (I just hope they do not like it too much and stay there forever:)).
And of course I do not need to mention that the dinner will be served outside by an open fire and by a beautiful Finnish lake. And attendees may take a sauna and a swim on the lake either before or during the dinner. And there is one more surprise nobody knows yet. Do not tell anybody… We will have THE Oracle band playing live music during and after the dinner…
Oh BTW did I say that THE C.J.Date will be there and explain temporal data? I cannot wait!!! He is definitely one of my personal favourites…and he travels all the way from California just to be here for us!
This will be a conference one of a kind. I am very sorry if you will miss it:( But do follow Twitter to see what is going on (#OUGF14).
Now we just hope for a good weather. Fingers crossed!
29 Thursday May 2014
Posted in Data Modeler
Did you know that Data Modeler allows you to share tables from another design? And updates them automatically?
If you did not know here’s a short note about it.
Open both designs in Data Modeler.
Open the relational diagram where you want to bring the table from the other design. Select the table from Browser and drag-and-drop it to the relational diagram. And here it is.
If you want it to be updated automatically (if somebody adds new columns etc on the original design) go to Tools, Preferences and select Data Modeler, Model, Relational. Enable Synchronize Remote Objects When Model Is Loaded.
If you prefer to update manually right-clicking the relational model in Browser and select Synchronize Remote Objects.
14 Wednesday May 2014
Posted in Events
Have you always wanted to speak in a great conference but never had the courage to submit a paper? I think you should do it now. UKOUG is looking for new speakers, first timers. This might be your chance…
Why not submit now: http://www.tech14.ukoug.org/default.asp?p=11590
The closing date is Friday 23rd May 2014.
My first presentation at the UKOUG Tech was 2013 and I can tell you it is worth submitting. It is a great conference and the audience is fantastic!
14 Wednesday May 2014
Posted in Data Modeler
Version 4.0.2 (4.0.2.840) came out on May 5th. I was told there is a lot of new things and bug fixes but now after using it for a while I am amazed! All the bugs I reported on 4.0.1 (!) have been fixed. All of them! And I did not report them immidiatelly when 4.0.1 was out… The team in Oracle is just great!
BTW did you notice that in 4.0.2 you can also change the box-in-box presentation on a fly just by right clicking on the logical model and selecting Notation?
24 Thursday Apr 2014
Posted in General
I have been and I am asked many questions about Data Modeler and database design almost every day. Some of those questions are asked more frequently than others and almost in the same way. That is why I decided to write short notes on those topics. I try to keep them as short as possible.
– the title is the question
– the post includes the reply
You will find these posts either under Data Modeler or database design, depending which one it concerns.
I hope somebody finds these useful. And feel free to send me more questions to reply:-). Maybe in Twitter: @helifromfinland?
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