Public Appearances

I currently have scheduled the following public appearances:

When Where What
2012-03-05/07 Dallas (USA) I will present a paper entitled “Shareable Cursors” at Hotsos Symposium 2012. The abstract is available below.
2012-03-15 Baden-Dättwil (CH) I will present a paper entitled “ASH Analytics” at a SIG organized by SOUG. The abstract is available below.


  • Shareable Cursors: The result of a parse operation is a parent cursor and a child cursor stored in the library cache. Obviously, the aim of storing them in a shared memory area is to allow their reutilization and thereby avoid hard parses. But when can they be reused? The aim of this presentation is not only to discuss what parent and child cursors are but also, and foremost, to examine in what situations it is possible to reuse them. In doing so, topics such as bind variable peeking, bind variable graduation, adaptive cursor sharing and cardinality feedback will be covered as well.
  • ASH Analytics: Active Session History (ASH) Analytics is a feature introduced in EM 12c. Simply put, it allows you to interactively explore ASH data. The aim of this session is not only to demonstrate what you can do with this feature, but it also introduce a methodological approach for using it successfully. In addition key concepts of ASH are introduced as well.