| 01. | DOUG
is growing again! by Emmanuel Delpierre, DOUG President |
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| 02. | Announcing
the Applications Special Interest Group by David St. Germain, Applications SIG Chairman |
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| 03. | Announcing
DOUG Oracle Study Groups by Richard Doud, Study Group Chair |
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 Are
you interested in advancing your career and saving money at the same
time? If so, a Study Group may be right for you, either to become
certified or to reinforce classroom training. Incidentally, they also
provide a forum to meet and get to know new people and to job network.
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Dear fellow
DOUG member! |
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| 05. | The
Great Migration Week Experiment By Bill Burke, Executive Vice President, IOUG |
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| If you're like most
Oracle DBAs, you're looking forward to the release of Oracle's next-generation
database, Oracle Database 10g, with a mixture of excitement and dread.
You know that this new version will include many improvements and
new features that will make your job easier and more interesting—but
you also know that upgrading your databases and applications from
currently installed Oracle products can be a complex and nerve-wracking
job. |
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| 06. | DOUG
Hall of Fame |
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  Let's
thank Shannon Summerlin and Adil Khan for a successful New Year's
party, one of the largest events organized by DOUG so far.Shannon also strengthened our team, recommendeding 2 additional resources to join our team of volunteer officers! The Dallas Oracle Users Group (DOUG) had indeed a very successful New Year's party on January 28th at Champps in Addison. It was one of the largest events organized by DOUG in its history - 70 participants, 15 prizes awarded including a Palm Tungsten and 2 MP3 players. The event was sponsored by Isidian Technologies, esoftsolutions, and ThePlanet.com. Kurt Davis of Pinnacle Systems was the grand prize winner: a Palm Tungsten. DOUG Members and Oracle employees provided great feedback and comments in follow up emails: "Thanks for the MIX. It's quite refreshing. - M.A"; "WHAT A GREAT PARTY!!! Thanks to all of you that helped put it together. |
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| 07. | How
to Refresh a Materialized View in Parallel by Sanjay Mishra, I2 DBA Lead Architect |
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| Materialized views provide
performance benefits to data warehouse applications. Some OLTP applications
also benefit from materialized views involving non-volatile data.
Oracle provides flexible ways to refresh materialized views - you
can refresh them full or incremental; you can refresh them on demand
or at the commit time in the source table. When the size of the materialized
view grows, one needs to explore ways to perform the refresh faster.
One of the ways to expedite the refresh is to use parallel execution.
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| 08. | Our members in the News! | ||||||||||
| Tony Reed of Texas Instruments
broke a personal record…
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| Tell us what you think. |
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Copyright 2004.
DOUG. All Rights Reserved. |
| DOUG Newsletters are designed to help users of Oracle Applications and Technology and DOUG makes no warranty for the accuracy, veracity, or completeness of any information herein, nor do they have any responsibility or liability for any losses or damages incurred as a result of reliance on any information provided herein or from the use of any program or program segment discussed herein. DOUG assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear herein. The information published herein is subject to change without notice. Copyright 2004 DOUG All rights reserved. Any trademarks cited herein are the property of its owner. No part of this publication may be reprinted or reproduced without the prior written consent of DOUG | ||