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HROUG would like to announce our next meeting in January, 2008. Our guest speaker, Tom Kyte, Senior Technologist, Oracle Server Technologies, Oracle Corp. will be joining us for an evening meeting on January 16th at Old Dominion University.

Mr. Kyte is the Tom of asktom.oracle.com and has authored many excellent books on Oracle technology (many of which should be standard issue for anyone new to design and programming in an Oracle environment). So, mark your calendars and join us for a pizza evening at ODU with Tom Kyte.

The topic of the meeting will be The Top 11 Things About Oracle 11g

Exact meeting location @ ODU will be posted closer to the date, so please stay tuned. And, as always, please RSVP to hzamperini@yahoo.com in order to ensure adequete food (pizza) and seating for everyone.

See you in Jan 2008!

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Bio :Tom Kyte is a Senior Technologist, Oracle Server Technologies division. Before starting at Oracle, Kyte worked as a systems integrator building large-scale, heterogeneous databases and applications, mostly for military and government customers. Kyte spends a great deal of time working with the Oracle database and, more specifically, working with people who are working with the Oracle database. In addition, Kyte is the Tom behind the AskTom column in Oracle Magazine, answering people’s questions about the Oracle database and its tools ( http://asktom.oracle.com/ ). Kyte is also the author of Expert Oracle Database Architecture (Apress, 2005), Expert One on One Oracle(Wrox Press, 2001/Apress 2004), Beginning Oracle Programing (Wrox press, 2002/Apress 2004), and Effective Oracle by Design (Oracle Press, 2003). These are books about the general use of the database and how to develop successful Oracle applications.