If you haven’t heard this podcast with Tom Kyte you need to check it out.  This Real World Performance road show sounds awesome.

(http://streaming.oracle.com/ebn/podcasts/media/9824111_Performace_Day_020311.mp3)

I won’t be able to get to the west coast for these first 4 events, but cannot wait until it comes to the midwest.

3 experts, with 3 projectors, working with real data (terabytes of data) to show real performance results.  It really doesn’t get any better than this.