THIS WEEK: Spotlight on Oracle

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October 14, 2002 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: True DBA bloopers >> Featured Topic: Spotlight on Oracle >> Expert Technical Advice: New expert advice, forum posts, and tips >> Site Highlights: * Upcoming Conferences and Seminars * Webcast Archive: Oracle and XML * Live Webcast: Tom Kyte answers your Oracle9i questions  From the Editor: by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor You are definitely not perfect. Since we recently announced our "True DBA Bloopers" series, we've received many wince-inducing stories from you DBAs out there--or from your "colleagues." (Sure, whatever you say!) We have posted four so far, with more to come each Friday. Keep them coming! Submit your backup/recovery snafus, tuning disasters, and ugly upgrades. Stories of good intentions gone bad, over-ambitious and under-trained newbies, clueless consultants, and even more clueless managers will all be accepted. If you've accidentally turned off the power to your company's data center, then this contest is for you. (Yes, that has happened!) The more horrifying and amusing the tale, the better. For obvious reasons, you can remain anonymous if you wish. The submitter of the "best" (worst?) blooper of the month will receive a free copy of Craig Mullins' new book Database administration: The complete guide to practices and procedures. Let's learn from each other's mistakes. Or at least laugh at each other's expense. Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your true DBA blooper. Thanks and have a great week, Tim  Featured Topic: Spotlight on Oracle by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor Oracle is as technically complex as it is dominant in the DBMS market. Oracle DBAs know that all too well! Will 200+ free scripts and tips help? How about 600+ expert answers to tough Oracle questions? It's all below, and more... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Tony Bain, Senior Database Consultant, SQL Services Category: SQL Server Tony is a MCSE, MCSD, and MCDBA and is author of "VB.NET & SQL Server 2000: Building an Effective Data Layer." Ask him your tough SQL Server questions! View all Tony's answers This Week: In the forums >> Migrating xBase to DB2 Member "Patty" is trying to migrate a C++ app from xBase to DB2 UDB v7.2. Anybody have any experience doing this? Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" forum if you can offer any advice. >> Archiving data from Oracle tables Member "Phil" is trying to archive inactive data from Oracle databases to either a nearline device or a separate low-cost disk array. Go to our "Data warehousing" forum if you have an advice for Phil. Tip of the Week: This stored procedure takes a delimited string, parses it and puts it into a table. It can be used to filter sets of data with lists (strings) from any kind of application. >> SQL Server string parser  Site Highlights Upcoming Conferences and Seminars Be sure that you're at all the biggest and hottest database events Visit the SearchDatabase.com Events and Conferences page to view a listing of upcoming conferences, tradeshows and seminars. Oracle and XML webcast archive Find out what you're missing if you aren't using XML with Oracle yet Get helpful tips and advice from this webcast about how you can harness the power of XML using the XSQL processor. Tom Kyte answers your Oracle9i questions On October 23, Tom Kyte will discuss Oracle9i and answer your questions Don't miss this webcast with Tom Kyte, Vice President, Core Technologies at Oracle Corporation. Take advantage of this exclusive opportunity to interact with one of the premier Oracle gurus on the planet. You can buy Tom's most recent book, "Expert one-on-one: Oracle," online at the SearchDatabase.com bookstore. Performance Event Join Oracle performance experts Tom Kyte, Jonathan Lewis, Cary Millsap, Anjo Kolk, Gaja Vaidyanatha and many more in Dallas February 9-12 for what's sure to be the premier Oracle educational event for 2003. Register today New white paper Visit the SearchDatabase.com White Paper Library today for "Myths and Folklore About Oracle Performance Tuning" by Quest Software. Download it now IT Salary Survey How competitive is your salary? Complete our salary survey and view the real-time results to compare your salary with other database professionals and see how your salary stacks up. Check it out A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R Created by TechTarget TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media Copyright 2002, All Rights Reserved. To unsubscribe from Updates on new site content: >> Simply Reply to this Email with REMOVE within the Body or Subject -OR- >> Go to: http://searchDatabase.techtarget.com/register    - Log in to edit your profile.    - Click on the link to Edit email subscriptions.    - Uncheck the box next to the newsletter you wish to unsubscribe from.    - When finished, click "Save Changes to My Profile".