I wanted to let all of our new members know we also have a discussion list
for Oracle and user group related issues.  This is a low volume, but very
responsive list.  Please let me know if you're interested in being added to
that list.

Thanks.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

If you'd like a copy of the presentation EMC did at the last CAOUG meeting
follow the link below.  The presentation focused on using EMC technologies
in an e-commerce environment.

http://www.egroups.com/docvault/caoug-announce/Presentations

If you have any problems, please let me know.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

If you'd like to download the scripts from Tim Robinson's database
cloning presentation, please access the site below:

http://www.egroups.com/docvault/caoug-announce/Presentations/cloneDatab
ase

Jim Hill
205.970.5955

Our next CAOUG (Central Alabama Oracle User Group) meeting will be next
Thursday, March 16 at 11:30.  The presentation will be:

	 "Using PS/SQL to Present an Easy to Understand,
              De-Normalized View of Your Database"

Location and details will follow in a subsequent message.

If you haven't been to the user group in a while, consider putting this
on your calendar, picking up your lunch and attending this meeting.
We'd love to see you there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

CHANGE IN MEETING DATE AND TIME:

Since Oracle is coming into town for an E-Business Seminar on March 23,
we will be using that event as our March Oracle User Group meeting.
Registration is required (see below).

The meeting will be held at the Scrushy Conference Center on the
HEALTHSOUTH Corporate Campus.  The HEALTHSOUTH campus is on 280 East,
about 1 mile outside the I-459 loop.

Here's the schedule for the e-business seminar:

  8:30 a.m.  - 9:00 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.  - 10:30 a.m. E-Business: There Are No Rules
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Morning Breakout Sessions
                          The Customer revolution
                          The Supply Revolution
                          The Technology Revolution
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Break
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Mid-Day Sessions (vary according to city)

#####

Please go to the following site and register for the event if you plan
on attending.

             http://oracle.com/go/ebusiness/start.html

I'll see you there.

Sincerely,
Jim Hill
205.970.5955

If you're planning on attending our next Oracle User Group meeting,
please remember to go to the site below and register:

              http://oracle.com/go/ebusiness/start.html

See details below.

Thanks.
Jim Hill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim.hill@... [mailto:jim.hill@...]
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 3:31 PM
> To: caoug-announce@eGroups.com
> Subject: [caoug-announce] UPDATE! - Next Oracle User Group meeting
>
>
> CHANGE IN MEETING DATE AND TIME:
>
> Since Oracle is coming into town for an E-Business Seminar on
> March 23,
> we will be using that event as our March Oracle User Group meeting.
> Registration is required (see below).
>
> The meeting will be held at the Scrushy Conference Center on the
> HEALTHSOUTH Corporate Campus.  The HEALTHSOUTH campus is on 280 East,
> about 1 mile outside the I-459 loop.
>
> Here's the schedule for the e-business seminar:
>
>  8:30 a.m.  - 9:00 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
> 9:00 a.m.  - 10:30 a.m. E-Business: There Are No Rules
> 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
> 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Morning Breakout Sessions
>                          The Customer revolution
>                          The Supply Revolution
>                          The Technology Revolution
> 11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Break
> 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Mid-Day Sessions (vary according to city)
>
> #####
>
> Please go to the following site and register for the event if you plan
> on attending.
>
>             http://oracle.com/go/ebusiness/start.html
>
> I'll see you there.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jim Hill
> 205.970.5955
>
>

DBTuner to the rescue.  See details below.

  <<CAOUG April Meeting.doc>>

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

===================================
    R E M I N D E R
===================================

If you have not yet RSVP'd and you plan on attending the meeting, please let
me know so
that I can give EMC a count for lunch.

Thanks.
Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hill Jim [mailto:jim.hill@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 8:15 AM
> To: caoug-announce@egroups.com
> Subject: [caoug-announce] Oracle User Group meeting for April
>
>
> DBTuner to the rescue.  See details below.
>
>  <<CAOUG April Meeting.doc>>
>
> Jim Hill
> HEALTHSOUTH
> 205.970.5955
>
>

Stonebridge, formerly Tactics, was instrumental in starting the Central
Alabama Oracle User Group and they've ask me to let you know about the
following opportunity.
Jim Hill
####
Internet Management: The Key To On-line Success
Tuesday, May 2, 2000 Starting at 8am.
Join Industry Leaders Hewlett-Packard and Stonebridge Technologies for a
Compelling and Informative Morning on System Management for the Internet and
the key to achieve on-line success.
Are you gearing your business to become an on-line powerhouse?
Is Your E-Services strategy built to last?
Are you overwhelmed by the exponential growth of web servers and their
management to deliver on agreed-upon levels of service?
Web session failures and poor response times all reflect negatively on your
business.
Create a "mission control" center for your entire distributed Internet
environment.
Acquire the edge by learning how the HP OpenView tools efficiently manage
and increase the performance of your E-Services infrastructure.
After all, If you Build it, you'd better be Ready to Manage It.
DATE AND LOCATION:
Tuesday, May 2, 2000
8am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Seminar
1800 Internation Park Drive
Birmingham, Alabama
Directions:
Acton Road Exit from I459. 1st right - International Park Drive.
Building 1800 is the last building on the left. Take elevator to T1
(Terrace Lever). Meeting room will be marked for Stonebridge
Technologies).
REGISTER NOW TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE
Call 800.517.4749


Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Earlier this week the Association of IT Professionals allowed a few members
of the CAOUG to attend their monthly meeting and pass out literature about
our organization.  We'd like to express our thanks to the AITP organization
by returning the favor.

========================================================
Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)

The mission statement of AITP is :

To promote the Management of Information Technology as a valued
profession through education, membership association, and high
ethical standards so that individual members continue to be
valuable assets to their companies or organizations, the
Information System Community and Society.

The group meets every 4th Thursday evening of the month
except during summer months, usually June - August, and December.

Meetings are held at the Pickwick Center at 5 Points South.
There is a social hour at 5:30 followed by dinner at 6:30.
The fee for dinner is usually $20 with reservations

The group has an informative web site at :

http://www.libnat.com/aitpbham/index.htm

The web site includes a newsletter and additional contact
information, information about the meetings and board
members. This organization is certainly worthwhile for
serious information technology professionals seeking others
in the Birmingham area.

==========================================================

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

As a service to you and to the BWNTUG we are providing the following
information about their group.  We'd also like to thank them for publishing
a similar flyer from the CAOUG.

If you use NT or feel that you will in the future, the flyer below may
interest you.

========================================================

The Birmingham Windows NT User Group (BWNTUG) was formed in
April of 1996 by a small group of system administrators
looking for a way to share information about Windows NT.
Since then, our numbers have grown steadily larger.
The group's goal is to provide a resource to computer
professionals who are using, evaluating or just interested
in the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. The knowledge
and skills of our user group are VERY diversified and we
believe this to be one of the most important attributes of
our group. Our group is located in Birmingham, Alabama
and usually meets at 6:00PM on the third Tuesday of
each month.  Check the web site for specific meeting
location information.


HOW TO FIND US!

Visit our web site at www.bwntug.org.  Here you will find
information on the dates and locations for future meetings and
additional contact information.  Members are placed on a mailing
list to receive additional details on meeting schedules
and agendas.

For additional inquiries please contact : mcarter@...

If you would like to contact the group or send product or
company information to be distributed to the group please
send all mail to the following address:

   The Birmingham Windows NT User Group
   267 West Valley Avenue
   Suite 409
   Birmingham, Alabama 35209

========================================================

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Our next CAOUG (Central Alabama Oracle User Group) meeting will be next
Thursday, May 18th at 11:30.  The presentation will be:

	 "Using SQL & C to Present an HTML View of Your Database Schema"
Location and details will follow in a subsequent message.
If you haven't been to the user group in a while, consider putting this on
your calendar, picking up your lunch and attending this meeting.  We'd love
to see you there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Our next CAOUG (Central Alabama Oracle User Group) meeting will be next
Thursday, May 18th at 11:30.

================================
Presentation:
================================

	 "Using SQL & C to Present an HTML View of Your Database Schema"

================================
Location:
================================

Sonat building at 1900 5th Ave. North. The meeting will be held in the
29th floor conference room. Look for signs pointing the way. This will
be a brown bag event.

If you haven't been to the user group in a while, consider putting this on
your calendar, picking up your lunch and attending this meeting.  We'd love
to see you there.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

This message is to let all the new members know that we have 2 other
e-mailing lists that may be of interest to you:

	 1) CAOUG-Jobs
		 This list is for posting job openings and/or resumes.  Only
the moderator can post
		 to this list.

		 To subscribe mailto:caoug-jobs-subscribe@egroups.com

	 2) CAOUG-Discuss
		 This is a list for discussing Oracle-related technical
issues you are facing.  Any member
		 can post messages.

		 To subscribe mailto:caoug-discuss-subscribe@egroups.com

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

================================
IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION
================================

"Thank you" to Tech Providers, Inc. who will be providing soft drinks and
cookies for the
meeting.  Tech Providers is a Birmingham based technical staffing and
consulting company.
They can be found at http://www.techproviders.com/.

There will also be 2 nice door prizes that will be given away at the
meeting.

###

Our next CAOUG (Central Alabama Oracle User Group) meeting will be
Thursday, May 18th at 11:30.

================================
Presentation:
================================

	 "Using SQL & C to Present an HTML View of Your Database Schema"

================================
Parking
================================

Parking can be had at the Parking Deck at the corner of 18th Street and 5th
Avenue North (small walk to the Amsouth Sonat Tower) or at the Parking deck
attached to the Amsouth Sonat Tower (corner of 19th Street and 5th Avenue
North).

Cost for the 19th Street parking deck is:

< 1hour - $1.00
1-2 hours - $1.50
2-3 hours - $2.00


================================
Location:
================================

Sonat building at 1900 5th Ave. North. The meeting will be held in the
29th floor conference room. Look for signs pointing the way. This will
be a brown bag event.  There is a food court in the building if you'd
like to pick up your lunch there.

If you haven't been to the user group in a while, consider putting this on
your calendar, picking up your lunch and attending this meeting.  We'd love
to see you there.


Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of your caoug-announce
group.  This file is a copy of the source code for what will be presented
today.

   File        : Presentations/Schema-to-HTML/hyperschema.zip
   Uploaded by : jim.hill@...
   Description : Source code and files for hypermapping Oracle
database schema

You can access the file at the URL

http://www.egroups.com/files/caoug-announce/Presentations/Schema-to-HTML/

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Our next Central Alabama Oracle User Group meeting will be on

	 Thursday, June 22 at 11:30 am.

We will be having a presentation on "Business Intelligence", also know as
"Data Warehousing".  Lunch will be provided.

The meeting location and more details will be provided in a future message.


Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

The next Oracle user group meeting will be on Thursday, June 22 at 11:30 at
the Mountain Brook Inn on Hwy. 280 (near Rossi's, but on the opposite side
of the street).

Our topic will be:

	 Business Intelligence (Data Warehousing)

Our speaker is Jennifer Cunningham, the President of the South Carolina
Oracle User Group.

I'll be sending out a more complete description next week.

Since the sponsoring organization, DCC, will be providing lunch, please
resond to this message and let me know if you plan to attend.

Thanks.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Tomorrow's meeting begins at 11:30 at the Mountain Brook Inn on highway 280,
near Rossi's, but on the other side of the highway.  Please remember to RSVP
if you haven't, so that we can get a count for the lunch which will be
provided by DCC.

Here are more details:

The presentation will begin with answering basic questions such as What is a
Data Warehouse? and What is meant by Business Intelligence?  Then, the
presentation will turn to specific case studies that exemplify the most
common types of data warehouses / data marts that are being constructed.
Strategies will be discussed for making any data warehouse project
successful.  Finally, the presentation will end with a summary of future
trends in the Data Warehousing arena including data mining.

===============================
Our Presentor
===============================

Jennifer Cunningham, Technical Director for Diversified Computer Consultants
in Greenville, S.C. , is known in the IT industry for her work on several of
the largest Oracle data warehouses in existence.  Most recently, Jennifer
has served as lead Oracle Architect on four Oracle data warehouse
implementations for First USA Bank in Delaware, the largest of which was
fifteen terabytes in size.  Before entering the Business Intelligence arena
in 1996, Jennifer had been a worldwide Oracle Financials project manager for
NCR Corporation as well as a Senior Oracle Database Administrator with
Oracle Corporation.  Jennifer is a renowned speaker at international IT
conferences on the subject of large-scale Oracle implementations,  including
a recent presentation at the May 2000 International Oracle Users' Group
conference in Anaheim on the subject of business intelligence.  In addition,
Jennifer is President of the Upstate S.C. Branch of the IOUG-A.


Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

As you know, the Central Alabama Oracle User Group often relies on its
members to provide the group with a meeting facility.  I'd like to thank you
for helping to make the group a success over the last couple of years by
being so generous with your facilities.

Please help us to continue our success by volunteering once again OR for the
first time.  If you are able to provide facilities for a CAOUG meeting over
the next 6 months, please access the link below and sign-up for a month.

	 http://www.isignupnow.com/redirector.asp?id=2E0FS11A

Thanks.

Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

P.S.  I'd like to thank a local startup company called iSignUpNow.com for
providing us with the facility for taking these sign-up's online.

Entegreat will sponsor the July 20 CAOUG meeting.
They will use meeting facilities available via their investment firm,
Emerging
Technology Partners.

Look for detailed driving directions in a future message.

	 What:  CAOUG Meeting
	 When:  Thursday, July 20, 2000  11:30 am
	 Where: Emerging Technology Partners
			 500 Beacon Parkway W (off of Valley Avenue)
			 Birmingham, AL 35209
			 phone: 205-943-5646
			 (enter building through east end 2nd floor entrance)
	 Who:  Entegreat (www.entegreat.com) will sponsor

	 Topic: Oracle8i New Features: Application Context and
                   Fine-grained Access Control

	 Menu:  We plan on having barbecue, unless other suggestions
prevail.
			 Please forward any dietary restrictions/alternatives
to:
						 Ron Harmon

mailto::Ron_Harmon@...
						 205-968-3050 x108


Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Hill, Jim would like to recall the message, "July 20 - Next Oracle User
Group meeting".

Since Entegreat is providing lunch, please RSVP to Ron Harmon if
you plan to attend next Thursday's meeting.  (NOTE: I'm in
training and unable to pick up the RSVP's so please do not
REPLY to this message to RSVP.  Rather, click on the link
below and send a message to Ron Harmon.)

       mailto:ron_harmon@...

If you have already sent an RSVP, there is no need to send another.

#################

Entegreat will sponsor the July 20 CAOUG meeting.
They will use meeting facilities available via their investment firm,
Emerging Technology Partners.

Look for detailed driving directions in a future message.

	 What:  CAOUG Meeting
	 When:  Thursday, July 20, 2000  11:30 am
	 Where: Emerging Technology Partners
			 500 Beacon Parkway W (off of Valley Avenue)
			 Birmingham, AL 35209
			 phone: 205-943-5646
			 (enter building through east end 2nd floor entrance)
	 Who:  Entegreat (www.entegreat.com) will sponsor

	 Topic: Oracle8i New Features: Application Context and
                   Fine-grained Access Control

	 Menu:  We plan on having barbecue, unless other suggestions
                   prevail.

			 Please forward any dietary restrictions/alternatives
                   to:
                              Ron Harmon
                              mailto:Ron_Harmon@...
                              205-968-3050 x108


Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Since Entegreat is providing lunch, please RSVP to Ron Harmon if
you plan to attend next Thursday's meeting.  (NOTE: I'm in
training and unable to pick up the RSVP's so please do not
REPLY to this message to RSVP.  Rather, click on the link
below and send a message to Ron Harmon.)

       mailto:ron_harmon@...

If you have already sent an RSVP, there is no need to send another.

#################

Entegreat will sponsor the July 20 CAOUG meeting.
They will use meeting facilities available via their investment firm,
Emerging Technology Partners.

Look for detailed driving directions in a future message.

	 What:  CAOUG Meeting
	 When:  Thursday, July 20, 2000  11:30 am
	 Where: Emerging Technology Partners
			 500 Beacon Parkway W (off of Valley Avenue)
			 Birmingham, AL 35209
			 phone: 205-943-5646
			 (enter building through east end 2nd floor entrance)
	 Who:  Entegreat (www.entegreat.com) will sponsor

	 Topic: Oracle8i New Features: Application Context and
                   Fine-grained Access Control

	 Menu:  We plan on having barbecue, unless other suggestions
                   prevail.

			 Please forward any dietary restrictions/alternatives
                   to:
                              Ron Harmon
                              mailto:Ron_Harmon@...
                              205-968-3050 x108


Jim Hill
HEALTHSOUTH
205.970.5955

Entegreat will sponsor the July 20 CAOUG meeting.
They will use meeting facilities available via their
investment firm, Emerging Technology Partners.

   What:  CAOUG Meeting

   When:  Thursday, July 20, 2000  11:30 am

   Where: Emerging Technology Partners
   500 Beacon Parkway W (off of Valley Avenue)
   Birmingham, AL 35209
   phone: 205-943-5646

   Who:  Entegreat (www.entegreat.com) will sponsor the presentation.

   Topic: Oracle8i New Features: Fine-grained Access Control

   RSVP To: Ron Harmon
               mailto:Ron_Harmon@...
               205-968-3050 x108
               If you have already RSVPed, no need to send another.

   Driving Instructions :
    I-65, take exit 256
    turn East onto Oxmoor Rd
    turn Left onto Greenspingrs Highway (heading North)
    turn Right onto Valley Avenue (heading East)
    turn Left at first light onto Beacon Parkway
    turn Left into 500
    park towards the right end of the building (East end)
    enter the offices through the 2nd floor East entrance

   Host : EnteGreat is a venture-backed company with
          headquarters in Birmingham helping manufacturing
          companies all across the United States with consulting,
          systems integration, and outsourcing services. EnteGreat's
          customers are manufacuring companies in the Food, Beverage
          and Consumer Products and Pulp & Paper sectors.
   Check out their web site at www.entegreat.com

   Questions : Contact Ron Harmon above or
        Richard Kesssler, rakessler@... 980-9666

If you'd like to download a copy of the last CAOUG presentation that Ron Harmon did, please follow the link mentioned below.

>Richard,
>
>I would like to thank you and the CAOUG for allowing EnteGreat the
>opportunity to host and to allow Ron to present at the July user's group
>meeting.  I wanted to pass along the specific URL where a copy of Ron's
>paper can be downloaded.  It can be retreived from
>http://www.entegreat.com/eg_news_caoug072000.htm, or you can navigated to
it
>from the main web site www.entegreat.com and select the News links.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kevin Ake
>(205) 968-3050 x104
>kevin_ake@...
>

CAOUG Members,

One of the members of our user group, Hunter Lin, will be teaching a Continuing Ed course at UAB that I thought you'd like to know about.  We're also looking forward to Hunter doing a "short course" for one of our user group meetings this fall or winter.

Here's the info:

Oracle Programming (UAB special studies Fall 2000)

This course will introduce the most widely used of
Oracle 8 database management system for creating
and managing relational databases. Students will have
hands-on access to Oracle throughout this course, and
will learn how to create and modify database tables
and create queries in SQL as well as application programs
PL/SQL, SQLJ, and Java JDBC, The most commonly used
technologies for programming databases. Knowledge of
some programming language is assumed.

Sept 15 & 22       $575  .75 CEU

For more information about the course, Please visit
www.cis.uab.edu or call 934-2213
To register : 934-8263  ask for course   "CO1 800 16A"

Instructor  -  Hunter Lin,
               Oracle 8 Certified Database Administrator,
               MS, MA.
Professor-   Barrett Bryant, Ph.D.

####

Jim Hill
970-5955

There will be NO CAOUG meeting in the month of August.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, September 21 at 11:30am.  We are
scheduling presentations several months ahead and planning for an exciting
fall for the CAOUG.  If you or anyone you know would like to provide a
presentation for one of our meetings, please contact David Wilkins at:
	 mailto:dwilkins@...

See you next month.

Jim Hill
205.970.5955

Our next Central Alabama Oracle User Group meeting will be on Thursday,
September 21st at 11:30am.  Watch your email for more details.

Please take note of this special request from Richard Kessler and the entire
leadership team for the CAOUG:

----------------------------------------------------

Dear fellow Oracle users:

As you may know, CAOUG is an un-funded organization
that depends on the efforts of volunteers to organize
it's activities.

We have been blessed in the past with a rich variety
of very interesting topics for our meetings  - presented
both by sponsoring companies and by local member/experts.

However, we are always looking for new meeting topics,
new presenters, and new activities.  Please help us out
by being on the lookout for people or organizations
that might be interested in giving a presentation that
would be of interest to the group. You may pass this
information on to Jim Hill (jim.hill@...)
or David Wilkins (WilkinsD@...).

We are especially interested in presentations by members
of the group - local experts that can share their
experiences with a particular aspect of Oracle.
If you can give a presentation on a tool, method,
problem/solution, feature, or interesting use of Oracle
related software please let us know.  Don't be shy or
intimidated by the 'high gloss' of some of the
past presentations.  There are people who really want
to hear your real life experiences.

We are also looking for volunteers who would like
to get involved in organizing activities for the group.
We have only a very small 'staff' of people that have
been meeting periodically to keep things going, and
there is certainly room for more help. If you would
like to help by contributing your time and talents
please get in touch with Jim Hill at the address above
or at 970-5955.  You need not make a permanent
commitment. If you have an idea for just one meeting or
project - that's great - all inputs are welcome.

Richard Kessler
----------------------------