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Your local user group.  The only WDC/VA/MD group which meets MONTHLY and covers all Oracle topics and third party add-on products.  An official chapter of IOUG-A (below), NATCAP-OUG is the place to learn new things and network with other folks in your local community.


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This is NATCAP-OUG's (above) official PARENT Organization.  IOUG is the largest Oracle based user group in the world.  HEAVY DUTY Technical Sessions at their annual IOUG Live! conferences.  They also host a nice Technical Repository... and much more.

è IOUG's former name was "INTERNATIONAL Oracle Users Group" (now called Independent Oracle Users Group).  IOUG is heavily endorsed and partially subsidized by Oracle Corporation.
 


Oracle Technology Network, aka "TECHNET".  GREAT place to look for techie info in the Discussion Forums and to download trial Oracle products (tied to Oracle Corp's web site).
 

Oracle METALINK Technical Support and techie info lookup/repository. Usually the best place to start when you have a problem. Look it up -- chances are other folks have had similar experience and have already resolved the issue.
 

Prime site for hard-to-find Oracle specific Techie Information, utility scripts, and other hot Oracle topics and links.  Tom Kyte is the author of 2 popular Oracle books and author of the regular Ask Tom column in Oracle Magazine -- and a regular presenter at NATCAP-OUG.  Thanks, Tom :-).
 

GREAT source for Techie Information and utility scripts.  Their home page emphasizes Performance Tuning, but they cover a lot more.  Their monthly NEWSLETTER is published ONLINE -- packed with good tips.
 

Unix + Oracle =
Ixora

Mid Atlantic Association of Oracle Professionals.  This is a REGIONAL user group with a convention twice a year, usually in WDC or Crystal City, VA.

Oracle Development Tools User Group.  This is the largest user group devoted EXCLUSIVELY to Oracle's Design, Development, and Decision Support Tools.
 

Quest builds/sells all kinds of Diagnostic and Performance Monitoring software  for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MS Windows, MS Exchange, MS ACTIVE DIRECTORY, Web/Application Servers, and ERP software.  They also have report publishing/push technology and more.
>>> DBIG is an official Quest Partner. <<<
 

RevealNet builds/sells great KNOWLEDGE BANKS for Oracle DBAs and DEVELOPERS.  They also publish great Oracle Development Techie Info "Pipelines" on the web.  RevealNet also makes development tools, e.g. to auto-generate PL/SQL db packages to perform all basic SQL functions for every table in a schema, and to auto-format your code as well.  The famous Steve Feuerstein works here.  RevealNet was acquired by QUEST near the end of 2001.
 

GREAT Place to find a VARIETY of info on a VARIETY of Databases leveraging a VARIETY of design and development platforms -- and it does all this with reasonably IN-DEPTH coverage.  Covers database DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT (ALL Tiers, not just Back-End), and ADMINISTRATION for Oracle as well as IBM DB2/UDB, MS SQLServer, Sybase, Informix, MySQL, PostgreSQL and others.  Design/Development is covered in depth for a whole range of front end, middleware, and back-end environments including J2EE/Java, XML, PHP, .NET, ASP, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Unix Shell Scripts, Perl, and MORE.  Great for people with heterogeneous environments and interoperability issues.
 
JOB Seekers and Employers can meet each other here.  Also see anything Oracle related, from stock quotes to technnical White Papers -- even submit your own!
 
Great place for Oracle books with excellent techie write-ups/reviews by Warren Capps et al, particularly for Oracle CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Manuals.


MORE Links to GREAT Techie Places

Oracle/Web Development
PL/SQL Manual:
  An easy to read manual teaches PL/SQL concepts.
Hot Oracle:  Web-Site dedicated to Oracle/Java Developers.
Oracle Application Server:  Unofficial Oracle Application Server Site.
Web Alchemy:  Tools to convert HTML to PL/SQL.
Oracle Documentation:  Oracle Documentation including 8i Server, PL/SQL Java, and SQL.


Java/HTML/XML Web Development

HTML Home Page : W3C's Guideline on how to use HTML to the best effect.
Java Boutique:  An excellent resource for any topic on Java. Lots of tutorials and samples.
Web Development Tutorials:  On Line HTML, Perl, Java abd Javascript Tutorials.

Third Party Software
Computer Associates:  Look for ERwin, Paradigm Plus, and more.
Cast Software:  MINE your application software code/libraries to diagnose problems AND to PLAN your software architecture better.


 


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