I live and work in San Francisco and this week, like every year around this time, the city hosts Oracle Open World. Round 35,000 people have turned up, which, while down on last year by a good margin, is still an extremely impressive number of people.

Quest is there, debuting Toad 10, which along with being its version number is also its age now. Common toads can live for around 40 years, so Toad for Oracle has some ways to go yet. We’ve also got exciting new versions of Foglight for Oracle and Spotlight on Oracle to show, as well as book signings and talks by our Oracle experts, Steven Feuerstein, Bert Scalzo and Guy Harrison.

Next month it’s off to PASS in Seattle. I’ll be blogging more about specifics next week, but if you can possibly convince your boss to let you go, it’ll be worth it. The education and networking opportunities alone make it beneficial to anyone working with SQL Server. Online education and networking are fantastic nowadays, but nothing beats the face to face contact and interaction of a trade show.

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