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December 16, 2002 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: Expert appreciation >> Featured Topic: Oracle question? Ask Brian >> Expert Technical Advice: New expert advice, forum posts, and tips >> Site Highlights: * Webcast Archive: Oracle expert tuning secrets * Webcast Archive: IT salaries in 2003: Will they increase, decrease or stabilize? * Webcast series: Managing IT Heterogeneity  From the Editor: by Tim DiChiara, , Site Editor As 2002 draws to a close, I want to take this opportunity to thank our panel of database experts for providing their expertise to our members. Our experts offer their hard-won knowledge by answering your questions (almost 2,000 of them so far!), writing technical tips and scripts, hosting webcasts, moderating our forums and keeping us up to date on what's important out in the trenches. You can bet that our experts are the best in the database world and they're willing to help you do the best job possible. Join me in thanking: Rudy Limeback - SQL Tony Bain - SQL Server Craig Mullins - DB2 Brian Peasland - Oracle Eli Leiba - SQL Server Karen Morton - Oracle Pat Phelan - Database design Mike Hotek - SQL Server Doug Barry - Object-oriented Jason Law - SQL Debbie Hamel - Data warehousing Ian Abramson - Data warehousing Mike Lampa - Data warehousing And thank you for supporting SearchDatabase.com! Stay tuned in 2003 for a redesigned Ask the Experts section and even more experts to better serve your needs. Have a great week, Tim  Featured Topic: Oracle question? Ask Brian by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor Brian Peasland is a certified Oracle DBA with 15 years experience in the trenches. He's been through it all and is available to answer your burning Oracle questions. Browse the nearly 500 he's already answered inside... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Pat Phelan, Data modeler Category: Database design Pat has an eclectic background that dates back to when the field was still called Data Processing and used punched cards. He has worked on systems ranging from IBM mainframes, through mini-computers (DEC, HP, PR1ME, etc), to microcomputers, to process control machines. Ask him your questions about database design! View all Pat's answers This Week: In the forums >> Online form-database connectivity Member "Wambui" is developing a data entry form on the web that connects to both an Access and Oracle database using ASP. He's having connection troubles, however. Go to our "Database-web connectivity forum" forum if you can offer any advice. >> Oracle Forms 6i Member "soliman" is trying to write a text file from Oracle Forms 6i. Go to our "Data warehousing and data analysis" forum if you have an ideas for "soliman." Tip of the Week: Indexes are created to enhance performance, but often they are created with the same attributes, resulting in redundant indexes. Over a period of time the number of such indexes can grow, increasing the size of the DB2 catalog. This extensive SQL script can help you to indentify all such indexes in DB2 UDB 7.0 for OS/390. >> Identify redundant indexes in DB2  Site Highlights Learn Don Burleson's tuning secrets This webcast reveals several time-saving Oracle tuning tips and secrets You'll hear about Don's "silver bullets," how to minimize disk I/O, SQL optimization, SGA tuning and trend-based Oracle tuning. Where is your career headed? View "IT salaries in 2003: Will they increase, decrease or stabilize?" today Hear top experts analyze upcoming salary trends and recently released studies concerning IS management careers. 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