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Dear friend,

Membership Drive
  • Our good friend Fusion-io has made an unbeatable offer. The first 50 people to visit the Fusion-io booth at Oracle OpenWorld and mention this promotion will receive a $75 coupon for a $95 one-year NoCOUG membership. That’s a 79% discount! That’s just $5 per conference! That’s an unbeatable offer! That’s … That’s … That’s …
     
    Fusion-io delivers the world’s data faster. The Fusion ioMemory platform accelerates databases, virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and the applications that drive our economy and our daily lives.
     
    Please help spread the word by forwarding this message to your friends and colleagues.
Top Technical Tip (TTT)
  • Our favorite Oracle script of all-time is Tom Kyte’s “print_table” procedure. How many thousands of times have you been frustrated that there were more columns in your query than could fit comfortably on one row of your screen? Have no fear, Tom Kyte is here. Just use Tom’s world-famous “print_table” procedure. Here’s an example:
     
    SQL> exec print_table('select * from employees where rownum=1');
    EMPLOYEE_ID                   : 100
    FIRST_NAME                    : Steven
    LAST_NAME                     : King
    EMAIL                         : SKING
    PHONE_NUMBER                  : 515.123.4567
    HIRE_DATE                     : 17-jun-1987 00:00:00
    JOB_ID                        : AD_PRES
    SALARY                        : 24000
    COMMISSION_PCT                :
    MANAGER_ID                    :
    DEPARTMENT_ID                 : 90
                                                                                                                           
    You can get the script at http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1035431863958.
NoSQL “Gangnam style”
  • Are you still puzzled by Riak, MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, and Hadoop? Banish your puzzlement by listening to the video recording of Iggy’s highly entertaining keynote address at the last conference. You’ll chuckle and chortle. Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/NoCOUGchannel.
RAC Attack at NoCOUG
  • Are you afraid of RAC? The RAC experts at Database Specialists will conduct a “RAC Attack” at the NoCOUG conference on Thursday, November 21 at TechMart in Santa Clara. Install and configure RAC with the help of instructors and volunteers. You will never be afraid of RAC again!
Never Buy an Oracle Book Again!
  • If you are a resident of California, you are entitled to become a member of the San Jose Public Library. And, if you are a member of the San Jose Public Library, you get access to Safari Books Online and Books24x7! You can register for a library card at https://catalog.sjlibrary.org/selfreg/public. At last count, there were 394 Oracle titles available through Safari Books Online.
Kindest regards,

The volunteers of your favorite Oracle Users Group

P.S. For more than 25 years, NoCOUG has helped Oracle professionals like you continuously improve and enhance your skill sets through our conferences and Journal. Our conferences are held on the third Thursday of February, May, August, and November and are filled with practical and cutting-edge content for application developers as well as database administrators. Your first time is free. Please help spread the word about NoCOUG by forwarding this message to your friends and colleagues. They can join our email list at http://www.nocoug.org/.
 


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— The founder of Ford Motor Company in My Philosophy of Industry and Moving Forward
 
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Where everybody knows your name
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You wanna be where you can see
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You wanna be where everybody knows
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