Oracle Magazine - September/October 2011

What’s Wrong and
What’s Missing
Send us your corrections and your
ideas—beginner, advanced, and more.

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We run an occasional letters page in Oracle Magazine called From Our Readers. The content is correspondence (e-mails) from readers, along with our responses when appropriate. And while we really don’t mind getting letters that say something positive about a recent article or column, the letters we like most are the ones that point out errors—so we can fix them— as well as the ones that ask for different types of technology content in future issues. Getting the information right and offering the right information in each issue of Oracle Magazine is our goal, and direct reader input is one of our best resources for correcting and planning content.

BEGINNING AND ADVANCING

Beyond asking Oracle Magazine to include content on different technologies, readers also ask for different levels of content. A common letter theme over the years has been the request for more “beginner” content, in all technology areas. Although Oracle Magazine has provided a lot of what we consider beginner technology content, we’ve recently made the presentation of some beginner content a bit more formal.

Enter official content for beginners: the
101 series, inspired by the classic num-
bering of college and university introduc-
tion courses. This issue of Oracle Magazine
includes Part 3 of Steven Feuerstein’s
PL/SQL 101 series (“Working with Strings,”
page 65), designed specifically for the begin-
ning PL/SQL developer. This issue also
features Part 1 of Melanie Caffrey’s new SQL
101 series (“Get Your Information in Order,”
page 79), designed for the beginning data-
base developer or any developer or adminis-
trator beginning to work with the relational
database. We’re working on some other 101
series ideas as well, but if you have an idea
for a series, let us know.

OTHER BEGINNINGS, ADVANCEMENTS,
AND CONFERENCES

And finally, the biggest all-around education, training, networking, and community experiences for Oracle technologists are right around the corner. Oracle Open World 2011 comes to San Francisco, California, October 2 to 6, 2011, with information and learning opportunities for all expertise levels, all job roles, and all things Oracle. (See “Engineered for Innovation,” page 8, for details.) JavaOne 2011 comes to San Francisco, California,October 2 to 6, 2011, with information and learning opportunities for all expertise levels, all job roles, and all things Java. (See “Moving Java Forward,” page 10, for details.)