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>>About this email:  >>Receive this email as text   November 12, 2001  In this Issue >> From the editor: Trends in data management for 2002 >> Featured Topic: What does a DBA do? >> Expert Technical Advice: * Expert Advice: Object-oriented databases * Discussions: OPS and Oracle Applications 11i * Tip of the Week: Hot backup UNIX script >> Site Highlights: * Understanding SQL and Java Together * Take the Database Survey * Live Expert Q&A with Bill Inmon  From the Editor: by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor What does the future hold for the increasingly harried life of the DBA? DB2 guru and searchDatabase.com site expert Craig Mullins sought to answer that question in an interesting article in this month's issue of DM Review. He described four trends that will impact data administration in the coming years: bigger and bigger databases ("zettabytes" anyone?), the proliferation of mobile devices (the "PDA DBA"), more heterogeneity (some companies already have upwards of 10 different DBMS's) and the ever-increasing rate of change (who can keep up with major new versions every year?). I asked a few attendees at the Data Warehousing Institute's World Conference in Orlando, Florida last week what they thought about these trends and they tended to agree -- although many doubted that their company would have a zettabyte-sized database any time soon (a zettabyte is a billion terabytes in case you're wondering). What do you think? What are your predictions for the future? Click on over to our DBA Water Cooler forum to add your two cents. Till next time, Tim  Featured Topic: What does a DBA do? by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor The life a database administrator these days is increasingly complex, but can still be distilled to a set of common tasks. Here is a collection of tutorials and expert advice about the top five job duties of a DBA... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Douglas Barry, Founder, Barry & Associates, Inc. Category: Object-oriented databases Successful consultant, executive director of the Object Data Management Group and the author of numerous OODBMS books, Doug is more than able to answer your toughest questions about object-oriented databases. Give him a try! This Week: In the forums >> OPS and Oracle Applications 11i Forum poster "mamab3ar" is wondering if anyone has experience with, or opinions on, running Oracle applications 11i and Oracle Parallel Server on a SUN cluster? Can anybody offer any advice? Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" Forum. >> A trusted SQL Server connection? Member "Sir William" asks: "I've set all login and passwords for SQL Authentication and it still doesn't work. Is there another parameter that needs to be set to establish a 'TRUSTED SERVER' enviroment?" Go to our "Database-Web Connectivity" forum to help him out. Tip of the Week: This large script performs a hot backup of an Oracle database with no interaction. The user of the script must have write privileges to the backup drives or devices. The script writes to a disk but can be modified to write to a tape device. >> Hot backup UNIX script  Site Highlights SearchDatabase Book of the Week "Understanding SQL and Java Together" by Melton and Eisenberg A terrific reference for database powered Web apps. Order today and you'll have the book this week. The SearchDatabase Survey Today is the last day we are accepting survey responses Let us know which database you run so we can continue to tailor SearchDatabase to meet your needs. Live Expert Q&A with Bill Inmon Monday November 19th at 2:00 PM EST: Exploration Processing and Data Mining One of the most powerful usages of corporate data is for the discovery of meaningful business patterns. Join "the father of data warehousing" for a discussion on the infrastructure needed to use data mining to find such patterns. Pre-register today! Sponsored By: Syncsort Storage Innovators See how three award winners implemented highly efficient storage systems with limited budgets and impressive ROI by tapping existing hardware. Then sign up for the Storage Innovators newsletter. Read on FREE Conference Storage management & business continuity are now on the top of everyone's priority list. Gain expert solutions at the only free storage-specific event. Apply early to attend! Apply now If You Run Oracle� Then you should register for our Oracle tips. They're practical. They're useful. They're FREE. Register today A B O U T  T H I S  E - M A I L : This e-mail is brought to you by TechTarget where you can get relevant search results from over 20 industry-specific Web sites. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter simply reply to this message with "REMOVE" in the subject line. Please allow 24 hours for your "REMOVE" request to be processed. Copyright 2001 TechTarget, Inc. All rights reserved.