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July 15, 2002 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: Oracle certification in flux >> Featured Topic: Java >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Rudy Limeback >> Site Highlights: *Live Webcast: Get Smart - Harness Your Most Valuable Data Assets for Short-Term Results * Webcast Archive: Tuning Your Oracle Databases * Live Webcast: Web services architecture  From the Editor: by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor Have all you Oracle admins and developers out there heard about the recent changes to the OCP program? Our crack news team has been covering the story quite heavily, so I wanted to highlight their analyses of the latest trends, including the new certification tracks, new requirements, and new costs: DBAs prep to skip Oracle school Oracle U. defends OCP title Is Oracle U. for you? For more general background information on database certifications, check out these articles: Certification: Is it worth the pain Vendor certifications for database administrators and developers As always, be sure to email me [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your thoughts about the OCP title, certification in general, or whatever's on your mind! Till next time, Tim DiChiara, Editor  Featured Topic: Java by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor Java continues to build momentum as an enterprise database development language, with Oracle and DB2 coders leading the way. Want to learn more? We have scads of Java, J2EE, JDBC, XML, & SQLJ resources inside.... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Rudy Limeback, Web and SQL Design Consultant 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 knows his SQL, so be sure to take advantage of this opportunity to ask a real expert your tough questions! View all Rudy's answers This Week: In the forums >> Installating Oracle Portal Member "aznwildkat" is trying to install Oracle Portal, but is getting a large collection of errors. Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" forum if you can offer any advice. >> Table design for international addresses Member "schemaman" is converting his address and phone tables to accomodate international clients. He's wondering if anyone has a good table layout that could be used to store most of the international addresses and phone numbers along in addition to the local ones? Go to our "Data Warehousing and Data Analysis" forum if you can help "schemaman." Tip of the Week: In the latest provocative edition of Fabian Pascal's "Against the Grain" column, Fabian writes: "The vast majority of practitioners, who are self-taught, lack an adequate fundamental education, have been working with such unnecessarily complex technologies and products and employing such unnecessarily complex practices, that they can't cope with simplicity anymore: when something is simple, they must complicate it before they're comfortable with it." >> As simple as possible, but not simpler  Site Highlights Vendor Connection Webcast with Unisys Get Smart: Harness Your Most Valuable Data Assets for Short-Term Results Get advice from Jill Dyche, author of The CRM Handbook, on how you can turn your company data into more profitable customer relationships. To register, join the Unisys eCommunity and you will be directed to a quick registration page. Tuning Your Oracle Databases Guy Harrison reveals the expert's way to tune Oracle databases in this Webcast. Learn how to resolve database issues using: Performance Diagnostics, SQL Tuning and Space Management. Webcast: Web services architecture Don't miss this Q&A with Simon Yates of the Hurwitz Group July 18 at 10:00 a.m. EDT Attend this Webcast for the answers to these questions: * What is the business case for Web services? * To what extent are firms using Web services today? * How will the adoption of Web services evolve over time? Receive an overview of Web services and understand how to drive down costs and expand the business reach. Domino vs. Exchange Join us July 24 at 1:00 p.m. EDT for this live informational Webcast on the business and political issues surrounding Domino and Notes in a Microsoft world. Register today Featured Training XML provides an interface between computers, databases and systems. If you don't know XML yet, we have good news -- you can get two XML CD-ROM training courses for just $49. 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