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2015 Brief, The last Post of the year

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday everyone.

2015 is almost done and the doors will be closed soon, and start the new year 2016 within 5 days only, I would like to thank everyone here , Family , Friends and my blog readers who keep me motivated always to write new articles when i can, and special thanks to my mother.

i learnt a lot of things this years, sadness moment gives me experience and the happiness teach me and show me who is my real friends, i met new people around the worlds make new friends, discuss different topics with people, one of the biggest achievement for me this year to be Oracle ACE Director a dream come true, when i remember this moment i also remember my friends who nominate me because without them it will not be possible Gurcan Orhan, Heli Helskyaho, Jeff Smith , Tim Hall, kamran agayev, Iloon Ellen-Wolff, Kai Yu, and Tariq Farooq , and i would like to take this opportunity to thanks Oracle ACE program who make it real for me and for the biggest effort they provide it to us.

So let me summarize the 2015 :-

  • The first Oracle ACE Director in the Middle-east.
  • Director and CEO for Jordan Amman Oracle User Group.
  • Speaker in JAOUG.
  • Speaker in OTN MENA Tour.
  • Speaker in Bulgarian Group – Summer.
  • Speaker in Bulgarian Group – Winter.
  • Speaker in Oracle Open World 2015.
  • Organizing the first event Of  JAOUG. 
  • Working on my 2nd book.
  • Wrote more than 10 articles for different  International magazine.
  • attend my 2nd Oracle open world as speaker and first time as Oracle ACE Director.
  • Speaker in the last conference of the year in UK.
  • Implement one of the biggest oracle engineer system project : Exalytics, Exalogic and Exadata.
if i missed anything then i am sorry 🙂 
Thank you again.
Enjoy your holiday 🙂 
Osama

BGOUG Autumn Conference – Extraordinary trip

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
it’s 19-Nov-2015 and this day means that i should start packing and prepare myself for traveling to Bulgaria, at first everything was normal and i thought it will be like any other trip i did before.

since there is no direct flight to Bulgaria then i should landed in Frankfurt first then to Sofia as most of you know i don’t like early flight despite i am waking all the night working or replying some emails but it’s something i don’t like to do 🙂 anyway my flight was at 3:00 am from Jordan i did boarding thing and visa & security Check after 6 hours i landed in Germany,drink coffee in the airport and ran to my next flight Sofia.

When i landed in Sofia it was 1:30 pm exactly, so like any other airport i should pass by immigration officer & this is what happened :-

Me :- Hi, Good afternoon.
officer : Hi, your passport please.
Me ; Sure.
Officer “Scan the visa” and the System start rining.
Me: is there something wrong.
Officer: mmmm come with me please.
Me “in my mind” did i do anything bad before i came here.
Officer : Your visa valid from tomorrow.
Me: Kidding right ? So what ?
Officer : you have to wait till 12:00 am then you access to Sofia.
Me : it’s almost 12 hours man.
Officer : it’s Ok you can go upstairs and have some drink and food if you want.
Me : Sure, i am gonna have more than this.

So i wait in the airport and during this i sent an email to Milena to inform her that i will not be available till 12:00 am and told her what is happened to me.

I would like to thanks all of them actually Milena, Heli and Gurcan  these guys was checking on me :).

Wait my story not end here, When i went out of security check now i have to start search of my luggage which i found it in Lost & found Department for more information about this part contact me 🙂

anyway the conference was really good i had two presentation about middleware with live demo, i don’t know why the live demo before the presentation working fine but during the presentation it stop working for stupid reasons but live demo is always challenge

everything was well organized  and conference was really amazing.

Safe Trip my friends 🙂 and meet you soon Inchallah.

Cheers
Osama 

Oracle Open World 2015 review

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
As all of you know Oracle open world 2015 finished before 2 days ago, and simply it’s was amazing, my trip started on OCT-21-2015 Wenseday and it’s was totally morning flight which mean i supposed to be in airport at 4:00 am because of to avoid miss my flight i didn’t sleep, the flight was from Jordan – Amman to Turkey – IST and then to SF, when i landed in IST i met my old friend Gurcan Orhan this man is awesome, he managed everything from our seats to waiting in the lounge but i have to say he spent 11 hours sleeping from IST- SF. meanwhile i was watching San Andres movie which i discovered later it was bad idea , in case you didn’t watch it’s movie talking about earthquake happened in San Francisco, actually i watched all the entertainment movie and i was thinking what i will go when i will be back home ? simply i watch San Andres again.

anyway we landed after 13 hours of flying and we met the great Tim Hall the great oracle guy i am sure this man is helping a lot of DBA with his amazing blog. so we took the shuttle “tim, Gurcan, Arup,cary , simon and me”.

Don’t forget this is was my first OOW15 as ACED :), so i attended ACED Breifing and meet my old friends there, during the two days i learnt alot of new things about Oracle that i can’t mention it here because the NDA, and i want to thanks Oracle ACE program to organizing all this and make it true so let’s skip this part.
OOW15 started on sunday with an amazing weather, attending session about RAC, Database just like arup said ” there is database and everything else” and sure the middleware sessions.
I had so much fun & learning, the funny thing that i met Deiby and nassyam for the first time and these guys are simply funny and crazy 🙂 i think we can be called the four musketeers “Me, Alex Zaballa, Deiby and Nassyam”
Let’s not forget the amazing friend all over the world such as : Bobby, Danny Bryant, Kellyn, Heli,  Steve , Kevin ,Mahir, kamran, sai ram, Joel and a lot of amazing people and friends but i can’t feel my fingers 🙂 
Also The ACE dinner on Sunday night was awesome,almost all the ACE’s in one place and we had so much there, in OOW I lost twice with F1 Simulation but i want one of these machine anyway.

and i noticed that i am not good at all when i am eating spicy food i spent my time like the following  one hand drink water the other one wiping my tears. thanks for Sai , Nassyam and Hariharaputhran.

there is so much to say about OOW15 but this is as quick review for it and if you have any more question about it you can ask me 🙂
Thanks 
Osama

Oracle Open World 2015 –> 12c is calling

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
Another Year means another Oracle open world but this time 2015, if you attend OOW14 then you will remember EOUC 12 Short talks on 12c i am so glad i have been chosen to do it again this year

the session called : More Than Another 12 on Oracle Database 12c [UGF3190]

and 12 of the  best Oracle ACE director will present and speak about oracle 12c if you will be there come and join us let’s talk 🙂

The Speakers :-

Jonathan Lewis                     Less well-known enhancements of the 12c Optimizer
Julian Dontcheff                   Oracle Database 12c In-Memory Advisor
Gurcan Orhan                       Adapting DB 12C In-Memory to ODI 12c
Osama Mustafa                     How to plugin a non-CDB database to a Container Database (CDB)
Bjoern Rost                           How ASM has reached maturity in 12c
Alex Nuijten                         Security Enhancements in PL/SQL or “JSON in the database”
Brendan Tierney                   Running R in the Database using Oracle R Enterprise
Douwe Pieter van den Bos     Maximum security architecture
Christian Antognini               Real-time Monitoring of Composite Database Operations
Martin Widlake                     12C – Clustered Data aware TABLE_CACHED_BLOCKS        
Heli Helskyaho                      Design your 12c Databases using Oracle SQL Dev Data Modeler
Oded Raz                              Oracle 12c Privileges Analysis

Presentation will be

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
There is no much left for 2015 but there is too much work waiting me, presenting in different country means a lot of work and preparation, i am still waiting different events but till now this is confirmed:-

  • SIOUG2015 — Located In Slovenia.
  • HROUG2015 — Located in Croatia 
  • OOW15 — Located in SF, USA
  • UKOUG TECH15 — Located in UK.

So Excited.

Cheers
Osama Mustafa

OTech Magazine – Summer 2015

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
OTech Magazine – Summer 2015 OTech Magazine issue Summer 2015 is the eighth issue of OTech Magazine – the independent Oracle technology magazine – . Our contributors are the best of the best of the Oracle atmosphere.

Osama Mustafa – Database Link From Oracle to MySQL
Read the full version of magazine here.
Thanks Douwe Pieter  for this amazing efforts.
Cheers
Osama Mustafa

My Days As an Oracle ACED : BGOUG

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
12 – 14 June save the date because it’s Bulgarian Oracle User group Events, this is my first time in Bulgaria and my first time as an oracle ACE director in any events :).

My Trip Planned to be from Jordan to Bulgaria – Sofia  and as usual i need to stop in one of world airport to reach my destinations first which i really hate because it’s wasting of time and tiring me.
my stop was in Frankfurt airport and to be there i had to spent 5-6 hours in the plane to reach there and then wait another 5 hours in the airport and reach Sofia 3 hours in the plane. but lucky me the plane is delayed in Jordan and i waited for 2 hours only :).
I reach Sofia but i was really exhaust and tired from traveling because my trip started early morning and it’s took us 2 hours to reach the hotel from the airport but even with this i have to thanks one of the best organizer i ever seen Milena Gerova She organized everything very well the hotels, the taxi, the appreciation events & sessions.
I had 2 presentation there about Fusion middleware and like usual i organized RAC ATTACK On Saturday, The audience was really amazing and asking very good questions. 
I had so much fun in Bulgaria and one of the best events i attended, simply it’s really Green every where you look it’s green, and I learned some Bulgarian dance  because i knew everyone in Bulgaria should dance 🙂 Even Tom Kyte was dancing,Svetoslav and Heli as well so why not ? 
It’s really nice to meet old friends and meeting new one  🙂 

Cheers
Osama Mustafa