This week: Oracle geeks of the round table

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A weekly newsletter from TechTarget  July 28, 2003 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this email   In this Issue >> From the editor: Oracle geeks of the round table >> Featured Topic: Database Administration 101 >> Expert Technical Advice: New expert advice, forum posts, and tips >> Site Highlights: * Oracle Discussion Forums * 24/7 expert advice * Webcast series: The 2003 Guide to Web Services  From the Editor: by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor "There was just a lot of nerds standing around having fun...No magicians or naked ladies or anything. Just the ability to come and talk to people who have nothing to sell." That's how Mogens Norgaard described his experience at OracleWorld in Denmark this year. Norgaard is a founder of the "Oak Table Network," a group of elite Oracle gurus, authors, and consultants that will also be appearing at September's OracleWorld in San Francisco. Our News Editor Ellen O'Brien recently profiled the OTN in a fun article Oracle geeks of the round table. We've featured many of the geeks' work on SearchDatabase.com and SearchOracle.com over the years, including Anjo Kolk's very popular webcast series: The death of the buffer cache hit ratio Off-the-shelf or great performance: An Oracle applications dilemma is resolved Does anybody know of a similar cult of SQL Server or DB2 gurus out there? If so, email me and we'll profile them as well. Till next time, Tim DiChiara, Editor  Featured Topic: Database Administration 101 by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor What does the modern enterprise DBA do? In today's challenging multi-DBMS environments, the answer is "just about everything." Inside is a collection of tutorials and expert advice about the most important job duties of a DBA... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Mike Lampa, CEO, BAG, Inc. Category: Database design Mike is co-founder and CEO of BAG, a Texas-based business intelligence consultancy. He has over 21 years experience in strategic planning, program management, and designing, building and supporting data warehouse and operational data store implementations. Intricately involved in the daily activities of BAG, Mr. Lampa can often be found building data and process models to aid in improved operations efficiency and decision support automation for clients. View Mike's answers to previous questions This Week: In the forums >> DB2 CCSID - PQ56697 Member "maf" is upgrading to DB2 V7 for OS/390 but a ptf relating to CCSID is causing him some concern. PQ56697 seems to say that he would have to convert any tablespace that has a zero in the CCSID field before upgrading to V7 and that all tables would need to be changed at the same time. Has anyone encountered this situation? Go to our "DB2 Tech Forum" if you can help. >> Translating the FORMAT function to T-SQL Member "Ricky" is migrating from Microsoft Access to SQL Server and is experiencing problems with the translation of the FORMAT function in Access SQL to T-SQL. Any advice? Go to our "SQL Server Tech Forum" if you can help. Tip of the Week: List privileges granted to a user on DB2 This handy script will list all the privileges granted (directly and indirectly) to the user of your DB2 DBMS. >> Read the complete tip  Site Highlights Oracle Discussion Forums Our sister site SearchOracle.com features discussion forums on Oracle Database Administration, Data Warehousing and BI, E-Business Suite and more! Interact with fellow Oracle developers and DBAs now. 24/7 expert advice Our Ask the Expert section features leading authorities on such topics as OODBMS, DB2, SQL server and more. Click here for more info on SearchDatabase.com's panel of industry experts. 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