On October 11th (last Thursday), more than 150 Turkish Oracle Users came together at TROUG Day 2012. It was held at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul. In my opinion, Bahçeşehir University is a great place to host these kind of events. They have great conference rooms, and it’s very easy to reach to the campus because of its centralized location.
This year, we asked Syed Jaffar Hussain (OCM, Oracle ACE Director, and DBA of the year 2011) to come and make our keynote speech. Syed Jaffar is very kind and friendly, and we all pleased to see them in Turkey. After his very detailed and interesting presentation about new features of Oracle 11gR2, DBA and Developer tracks started in different conference rooms. On DBA track, Husnu Sensoy took the stage and spoke about how to design a design for a million TPS.
After Husnu Sensoy’s session, I spoke about DBaaS and how to implement it using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. I think people liked my presentation, because they asked some questions 
Unfortunately, I had a meeting afternoon, so I had to leave the event early and couldn’t follow the rest of the sessions. I hope people enjoyed the event, cause we (Board of TROUG) put a lot of effort to make it happen.