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by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor
Last week, I asked for your opinions about the state of the data management trade show business. A smattering of replies came in, but I wanted to ask again for your feedback. Attendence is way down at all the major conferences and I'd like to understand the reasons why.
So, what do you think about database trade shows these days anyway?
- Are they worth the considerable expense?
- Is your department's travel budget going to be cut or will it recover in 2003?
- Which shows do you find the most useful and why? Are user group shows more useful than vendor-sponsored ones?
- Do you think that webcasts and online training will someday replace conferences? Or is the desire to listen to 37 hours of live seminars, eat bad food, commiserate with fellow geeks, and drink to excess too powerful?
Click on over to our DBA Water Cooler discussion forum, look for the thread called "Are trade shows worth your while?" and please offer your proverbial two cents.
Thanks and have a great week, Tim
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The challenge of integration
by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor
Studies have shown that most modern corporations have from three to ten different DBMS products. Learn more about this complex and growing problem and how integrated systems can provide business value.
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This Week: In the forums
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Oracle Snapshots
Member "nm" has snapshots that refresh from a main
data schema. He needs to now drop this main data schema each week
and import new data. Will dropping and recreating this schema
invalidate the snapshots that are looking at these tables? Go to
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SQL Server Join Query
Member "Dinesh Parikh" is looking for a way to
autometically convert SQL Server 2000 joins to Oracle joins and
vice versa. Any ideas? Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" forum if you do. |
| Tip of the Week: |
| Craig Mullins continues his series about techniques
for optimizing the performance of any database. In part 2, he
discusses denormalization, clustering, page splitting, and
interleaving data. |
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