THIS WEEK; Java versus .NET

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February 17, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: The future of the data center >> Featured Topic: Java versus .NET >> Expert Technical Advice: New expert advice, forum posts, and tips >> Site Highlights: * Unraveling the complexities of DB2 stored procedures * Visit our White Paper Library to research the database tools and services you need * Webcast: Impossible data warehouse situations  From the Editor: by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor Data center professionals, take note: SearchDatabase.com has two new resources to help you learn about new technologies, give you perspective on the industry, and thus do your job better. First, our Data Center Futures newsletter focuses on the future of the enterprise data center, including mainframe technology, emerging technologies and new management strategies. Our writers present, in a fun and futuristic light, what industry analysts, IT managers and experts see coming in the next five years in general and the next year or two in particular. Recent articles have included: weighing centralized and distributed data centers, Linux and server consolidation, multi-platform integration and more. Second, our exciting new Data Center Futures conference will debut June 4-6 in Chicago (USA). It is one of the few independent, vendor-neutral, fluff-free conferences out there -- and it's free. That's not a typo! If you are a qualified data center decision-maker, there is absolutely no charge. The sessions will provide practical, real-world advice on how to make the smartest purchasing decisions, implement the top data center solutions, and avoid the costly pitfalls that our experts have uncovered. Topics include how to select the platform specific to your requirements, the top ten staffing issues for your data center, how to buy only what you require, how to maintain and ensure business continuity, bricks and blades in the data center, and much more. The speakers are CEOs from leading companies as well as the industry's top independent experts. If you have any important problems or questions that we're not covering in the newsletter or conference, let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Help us help you! Till next week, Tim  Featured Topic: Java versus .NET by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor The battle for supremacy in the enterprise database development world has come down to two players: Java and .NET. Newbies and gurus alike will benefit from our collection of Java, J2EE, .NET, and C# resources inside... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Karen Morton, Owner, Morton Consulting, Inc Category: Oracle Karen has over 15 years IT experience and 10 years Oracle experience. She has co-authored several Oracle training coursebooks and taught hundreds of individuals in skills ranging from introductory Oracle to advanced DBA topics. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science and additionally holds OCP DBA credentials for Oracle 8i. Ask her your tough Oracle questions! View all Karen's answers This Week: In the forums >> Get religion: Primary keys Member "Patrick" is having a "religious" discussion about defining a primary key on a table: should one use a column that contains a real-world value or should it be a made-up value? Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" to offer your two cents. >> ORA-08103 error Member "shanky" is getting an "object no longer exists" error when trying to get results from an Oracle stored procedure through a stateless session bean. Go to our "Oracle Tech Forum" if you can help. Tip of the Week: An audit trail is often required to know who created a record and who updated it. A "SELECT NVL(user, SYS.login_user) FROM DUAL" query shows the database login account. The function below is helpful when the database login is not the same as the network/OS login, which may occur in applications that make JDBC/ODBC calls to an Oracle database. This function returns the network/OS login account username. >> Retrieving OS/network username for Oracle audit trail  Site Highlights Unraveling the complexities of DB2 stored procedures Execute SQL statements more efficiently with stored procedures in DB2 for OS/390 Check out this webcast with David Cohn today for the definition, characteristics and architecture of stored procedures. DB2 test data management Learn how to perform more efficient testing and speed up development Neal Lozins of SoftBase describes the issues and challenges associated with test data management and a fresh approach to solving them. Click here to view this webcast now. Impossible data warehouse situations Find out if you're really prepared for a data-warehousing project before you start Management issues, changing requirements, user and team issues, project planning, security, data quality, integration, performance... they're all seemingly "impossible" situations of data warehousing projects. Attend this webcast to learn about issues you can expect and how you can overcome these data warehousing predicaments. IOUG Live! 2003 April 27 - May 1 is THE Education Conference for Oracle Users by Oracle Users. Get tips and techniques on performance tuning, security, high availability, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, 9i and more. 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