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Great Tech Links
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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
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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 :-).
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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.
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Unix +
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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. |
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Oracle
Development Tools User Group. This is the largest user group devoted
EXCLUSIVELY to Oracle's Design, Development, and Decision
Support Tools.
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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. <<<
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Great place for Oracle books with excellent techie
write-ups/reviews by Warren Capps et al, particularly for
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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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