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From Our Readers
Your corrections, your opinions, and your requests: Here's your forum for telling us what's right and wrong in each issue of Oracle Magazine, and for letting us know what you want to read.
Fight for Your Rights
Regarding "Learn and Predict," the March/April 2006 article on predictive analytics by Ron Hardman, when I execute the EXPLAIN call as user SCOTT, I get
Error: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
ORA-06512: at "DMSYS.DBMS_PREDICTIVE_ANALYTICS", line 1469
Can you please provide the rights the SCOTT user needs?
Erik Ykema
erik.ykema@gmail.com
The download file has been updated to include all of the GRANTs needed for the user, as well as a README file with additional information.
Doggone Funny
It was good to see some humor in your March/April 2006 issue. I did a double take with the example in "Learn and Predict" because I generally take it for granted that technical articles are going to be stiff. I'm not a data-mining guy and probably would have skipped the rest of the article, but the humor kept me reading. Consider adding some more, please.
By the way, the name of the TV show mentioned isn't Numbers; it's Numb3rs.
Adam Funter
adamfunter@yahoo.com
More Pleas for Newbie Content
I second the view of Dayo Akinkuowo, whose letter asking for some newbie help appeared in the January/February 2006 issue. I also ask that you use a page to let us know more about Oracle as a company—when it started, who was its first database developer, and so on.
Lolu Hassan
kalop28@hotmail.com
The Nuances of Oracle9i
I started receiving Oracle Magazine with the hope of finding some lessons on how to use Oracle9i Database. I noticed that much of your content focuses on Oracle Database 10g. Would you consider basing your articles on Oracle9i as well so that they can help people like me?
Afolabi Bello
compumedicine@yahoo.com
In Our Defense
I have a different view than Wale Adefisayo (see From Our Readers in the January/February 2006 issue) about the use of acronyms in the magazine.
At first I was not so comfortable with the rampant use of acronyms, but I've discovered that more often than not, any acronym used has been defined earlier in the article.
With reference to Genaro Mendez' letter under "Some Oracle9i Help," I think new issues of Oracle Magazine should contain information relevant to current releases. While it's understandable that many companies are still using Oracle9i, you can get much information on Oracle9i if you go to oracle.com/oramag and delve into the magazine's archives.
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Regarding Dayo Akinkuowo's letter, his request for providing materials for newbies is tackled periodically in the magazine's column on passing Oracle exams (Inside OCP), which deals with the different exam modules and even with sample questions and answers.
Oladipo Ajayi
ladi.ajayi@gmail.com
Punch in the Gut
Your January/February 2006 issue is a punch in the stomach of every IT professional I know who has successfully run Oracle on Linux for many years.
These professionals gladly left proprietary OS platforms while retaining Oracle's database engine, which effectively runs much better on Linux than on any other platform, as Oracle kept announcing for years.
In your cover story, "Powering Windows," we suddenly learn that the Microsoft and Oracle connection "is stronger than ever"; that "Oracle has made long-term commitments to partnering with Microsoft"; and that "[t]he relationship is important to our customers. . . ."
This doesn't change at all our ideas and investments in a free and open source infrastructure, but it is a good reason for me to kindly ask you to cancel my free subscription to your magazine.
Eugenio Pierno
pierno@napolinux.com
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