THIS WEEK: Outsourcing the DBMS

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April 15, 2002 >> Receive this email as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: Do you trust your vendor? >> Featured Topic: Outsourcing the DBMS >> Expert Technical Advice: New expert advice, forum posts, and tech tips >> Site Highlights: *Audio Archive - Finding Business Intelligence in Chaos: The Unstructured Data Problem *Vendor Connection: XML and JDBC: There HAS to be a better way to make them interoperable * Live Event Thursday: The Avery Dennison Story - Creating a Bulletproof Disaster Recovery Plan  From the Editor: by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor Would you trust your vendor with your mission-critical apps and data? Oracle thinks you should, and it pushed that message hard at last week's AppsWorld in San Diego, California. The company now offers hosting of their 11i E-Business Suite, 9i Database, and 9i Application Server. SearchDatabase's Jim Connolly has all the details in this report from the show. The ASP/xSP/"hosted service" model has been hyped for several years now, but has met with only marginal success. Even leader Oracle is having trouble -- revenues are less than expected -- and competitors Microsoft and IBM aren't even on the radar screen. What do you think? I know most of you are probably skeptical, but there are some theoretical advantages to this strategy. Hosting could free up enterprises that may not have the staff to monitor the systems and combat problems that may crop up; it could keep you current with version updates & patches; and it could easily extend your systems where appropriate for your company. Additionally, Oracle claims that companies could save 20% to 40% by letting it do the dirty administration work. At AppsWorld last week, these were some of the questions that the audience asked Larry after his keynote on the subject, so I thought I'd pose them to you: What kind of uptime guarantee can Oracle make? Will Oracle be financially liable for downtime? How can Oracle ever match the years of knowledge and experience that customers have about their own applications? How can data privacy and security be guaranteed? This is critical for industries such as financial servies, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Pop on over to our DBA Water Cooler forum and let me know your thoughts! Are you worried that you job may be in danger in the future? Would your company ever consider such a model? Is your network reliable and robust enough to make this work? Is this a passing fad or a harbinger of things to come? Thanks, Tim  Featured Topic: Outsourcing the DBMS by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor The database as a hosted service? Oracle is now pushing this strategy for both its apps suite and DBMS. Is this the beginning of the end for the in-house DBA? Check out the background resources inside and sound off in our forum... Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Jason Law, Senior Database Architect, PowerQuest Corp. Category:SQL Jason is an Oracle Certified Professional and a seasoned Systems Architect with more than twelve years experience in data design, web applications, data warehousing, system integration, and project management. Ask him your tough SQL questions! "View Answers": This Week: In the forums >> Raw Partitions in SQL Server 2000 Member "mjm11" has a 3GB OLTP database (SQL2K on Win2k) with some performance issues and it has been suggested to me to use Raw Partitions to increase performance. Has anybody tried this? Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" forum if you can lend mjm11 a hand. >> ASP input to Oracle Member "PM" asks if anyone knows how you submit the content of a text field on an ASP form with >6,000 characters to an Oracle DB. Go to our "Database-to-Web connectivity" forum if you can lend PM a hand. Tip of the Week: In this Oracle tip, Ofer Harel demonstrates how to use a feature introduced in Oracle 8i: a trigger on a database event. The trigger will be used to capture the LOGON and LOGOFF from the database. >> Session time statistics capture  Site Highlights Audio Archive: Shaku Atre Finding Business Intelligence in Chaos: The Unstructured Data Problem Visit our Audio Archives and view last week's event. This exclusive event was sponsored by Syncsort. Vendor Connection: DataDirect XML and JDBC: There HAS to be a better way to make them interoperable Register today - this event will introduce a tool that dynamically transforms relational data to XML in JDBC applications. Live Event Thursday The Avery Dennison Story - Creating a Bulletproof Disaster Recovery Plan Are you prepared for a disaster? Learn directly from Avery Dennison's Senior DBA how this Fortune 500 company implemented a plan to maintain 24x7 database uptime, even in the event of a disaster. Listen and learn to what has already been done to prepare for the next disaster. Pre-register today! Disaster-Proof Data Learn how a Fortune 500 company created a disaster recovery plan for their data - attend Thursday's Vendor Connection. Register Today Training Special During the month of April, you can order the training CDROM "SQL Queries" at 25% off the regular price. Check it out! All Things SQL Against the Grain Update your SearchDatabase subscriptions to get analyst Fabian Pascal's monthly rant on the state of the database world. Renew Now! A B O U T   T H I S   E M A I L This e-mail is brought to you by TechTarget where you can get relevant search results from over 20 industry-specific Web sites. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter simply reply to this message with "REMOVE" in the subject line. Please allow 24 hours for your "REMOVE" request to be processed. Copyright 2002 TechTarget, Inc. All rights reserved.