If you missed my day 4, you can view it here.

The main part of the conference was unfortunately over, with all the keynotes presented. Today was more ACE duties, exhibition hall, a session and ACE Adventure Part 1.

Oracle ACE Duties

Although I had done my Oracle ACE duties the day before, I had only done an hour and was required to do another hour which I had selected to do this morning.

It was quiet, so got to speak to fellow ACEs, some Oracle people and then had a discussion with Jenny Tsai, Senior Vice President, Overall Database Product Management at Oracle. I was explaining to her how it was important for Oracle Product Management to attend the Oracle User Group conferences and in particular UKOUG which I am part of, so they can present Oracle’s direction, roadmap, new features, etc which can only come from them. Also thanked her for her support in allowing the Tech Product Managers to attend so far and tried to convince her to come as it would certainly have gravitas if someone as senior as her attended 😎

I then next went around the exhibition hall with some ACEs, speaking to exhibitors, networking and collecting some SWAG I could give to my kids 😉

Next I went to a session before bumping into Janelle McCain, who I had asked directions on day 1 and then saw several times a day at the conference, so it was only fitting at the end of conference I take a photo with her for my blog 😀.

Top Integrations: Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure

Due to the only being half a day and with most of morning doing ACE duties and exhibition hall, I only got to fit in one session which was about various integrations in Azure with the Oracle Autonomous database such as Entra ID integration.

Next I had lunch then it was time to leave the conference and finally say goodbye to CloudWorld 🥺👋🏽

The date for next year was already being advertised as 13th to 16th October 2025, so a bit later then this year.

Oracle ACE Adventure Part 1 Visit to the Mob Museum

We was fortunate this year that the Oracle ACEs had not one but two ACE Adventures 😃

The first was visiting the Mob Museum in Old Vegas.

We got to learn about the birth of the mob in the 19th century, in poverty-ridden ethnic neighbourhoods of big cities.

Immigrants forced into crowded slums with worst jobs. Mean streets fostered criminal underworld. Corruption allowed the mob to flourish.

It was organised crime, in highly structured criminal network or syndicate.

St Valentine’s Day massacre wall, where the most horrific shooting in mob history. On St Valentine’s day 1929, seven members of George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging gang were lined up and shot dead. Al Capone gang was suspected of ordering the hit but no one was ever prosecuted. When the garage was to be demolished in 1967, the entrepreneur George Patey recovered the bricks from the wall which are displayed here.

The Sing Sing electric chair where people would executed if they received the death penalty!

Various mobs would be on the run, with undercover agents bringing down the mob in 1970s to 2000s.

Various props from various mob movies on display!

And something really cool to me, was the actual hazmat suit that Bryan Cranston who played Walter White in one of the best tv series Breaking Bad!

Then we finally had a tour of the courtroom that actually preserved in the Mob Museum.

To finish of the tour, was some nibbles before heading back to the strip.

It was an early night as we had ACE Adventure Part 2 tomorrow at 7am Valley of Fire Private Tour 🔥😎

You can view my day 6 here.

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Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)