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This week I attended my first DOAG (German Oracle User Group) Conference. The conference was hosted in a part of the Nürnberg Conference Centre. The venue was excellent : All sessions where in the same area on three different levels - so everything was in a short walking distance. The conference rooms itself where very good as well: a stage, just slightly higher than the audience, perfect lighting, good sound and screen quality and a wireless mic. Everything a presenter - and an attendee as well - needs! Something else that DOAG does better (not necessary healthier) than most other conferences: you can have food, snacks and drinks all day long. Not only during "coffee break" or lunch you can have slices of pizza, hot dogs or sweet cakes, but really all day long. And the quality of lunch and dinner was excellent as well: three courses and plenty stuff to choose from. Then onto the content itself. There were 20 concurrent sessions, all started right at the hour (with a bell...

From November 15 to 17, the annual DOAG (German Oracle User Group) Conference will be held in Nuremberg. I've never attended this conference before, so I am really curious how my experience will be - especially compared to the other big European Oracle event, the UKOUG conference three weeks later. The agenda looks very promising. A very neat and tight three full days, with a new 45 minute session starting on the hour. Just like you expect from Germans ;-). And with 20 parallel sessions it seems about the same size as the UKOUG. The nice thing is, there are a lot of (German) speakers on the list, I've never seen before. So that could be interesting. And there are a lot of APEX sessions as well - see my schedule below, where I colored all the APEX sessions in blue! Some sessions will be translated - from German to English, some of them will be in English, but the majority will be in German. So a good opportunity to dust off my German... In the flyer , sessions are marked when t...