OUG Scotland

Looking forward to the UKOUG event in Edinburgh tomorrow. I've been "roped in" to giving a presentation, and I must say, although I'm looking forward to it, it's the first time I've done anything like that and I'm rather nervous. Especially given the other speakers, all of whom are highly experienced, highly respected members of the Oracle community.

I was looking at data compression for some data warehouse data and also for some historic partitioned data which needed kept online for regulatory reasons but would scarcely be queried, never mind modified. So when I was asked to speak at the UKOUG event I though "fine, I'll talk about Data Compression". It was only when I was most of the way through putting my presentation together that I found a bunch of other presentations on the knocking around on the web on the same topic. So I hope I'm not going to bore my audience with stuff they already know... Looks like the subject has already received a lot of attention. Oh well... always room for one more.

I'm going to keep the presentation really simple - it's not a Paper after all. So I'm just going to explain the basic concepts and show some results of some testing I did, and the conclusions I drew. I hope it goes down OK - if you are attending, don't give me a hard time!