This week: Is the outsourcing debate over?

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Published by SearchDatabase.com  November 08, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: Is the outsourcing debate over? >> Featured Topic: Ask the SQL expert >> Technical Advice: Featured expert advice >> Site Highlights: * Download the Oracle Space Management Handbook * Webcast: Admin of distributed databases * 24/7 access to database experts  From the Editor: by Kate Evans-Correia, News Editor The U.S. election is over. George W. Bush has won another four years as president. At the beginning of the campaign, the outsourcing of IT jobs overseas took center stage. By the beginning of November however, it appeared outsourcing had been eclipsed by debates over moral values, the war and the economy. But once Bush settles into a second term, experts have no doubt that the debate will resurface. If, or when, it does, how do you believe this administration will address it -- if it will at all? Did the president's position on outsourcing compel you to vote for or against him? Why? What are your hopes about this administration in regards to IT jobs? What are your concerns? Moving forward, how do you think your job -- and overall job security will fare? We would like to better understand the issues that you, as an IT professional, as well as an American, find important. Send your comments to Kate Evans-Correia and then take our poll.  Featured Topic: Ask the SQL expert by Tim DiChiara, Editor Our expert Rudy Limeback has been in the database field for 25 years and he knows his SQL. Browse his 250+ answers to your tough SQL questions inside... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Rudy Limeback, Web and SQL Design Consultant, r937.com Category: SQL Rudy has worked with commercial databases since the mid-1970's, starting with IDMS, a Codasyl network system, and progressing through IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL Server relational databases. He has developed data warehouses and transactional databases, always with an emphasis on making them easy to use for developers and end users alike. He specializes in writing SQL statements that are simple and easy to maintain. Rudy now operates r937.com, developing databases for use with dynamic Web sites. Ask him your tough SQL questions! Ask Rudy a question Featured expert advice >> Ask the Expert: MySQL: Performance of MERGE tables? Our MySQL expert Mike Hillyer answers the question: "What is the optimal size of MERGE tables, and how will it affect performance of selects and inserts?" Tip of the Week: Oracle: Simple way to measure consumed resources Statistics held in V$ tables reveal a lot of information about the DBMS. 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