Doug Burns Statistics on Partitioned Tables When Jonathan Lewis decided it was time to post a list of the Partition Stats posts on his blog and... 01 August 2012 1 min read
Patrick Barel ANSI SQL if you can’t beat them, join them. Gregory Y. Titelman Since Oracle 9i, Oracle SQL supports the ANSI SQL... 18 July 2012 6 min read
Jonathan Lewis ANSI Outer 2 A comment on a recent post of mine pointed me to a question on the OTN SQL and PL/SQL Forum where someone... 17 July 2012 1 min read
Dominic Delmolino Hate the player, not the game — or my case for Data Engineers Has “database” become a dirty word within your organization lately? If you’re someone who has been a data technologist for... 16 July 2012 4 min read
Chet Justice Fun with OBIEE SQL I posted a couple of tweets yesterday about this crazy query I had to work with. I won’t Storify you... 13 July 2012 2 min read
Doug Burns Falling in Love All Over Again: OEM 12c Performance Page Enhancements Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c introduces the latest evolutionary stage of the Performance Pages demonstrated in the previous webinar. This session... 10 July 2012 1 min read
Randolf Geist Dynamic Sampling (III) – Real-Life Data – Part II In the previous installment of this series we saw that Dynamic Sampling wasn’t of great help when dealing with certain... 05 July 2012 11 min read
Doug Burns How I Learned to Love Pictures: OEM Performance Page Fundamentals The following video and set of resources are from the webinar broadcast by Red Gate on 03 July 2012. Watch... 26 June 2012 1 min read
Randolf Geist Dynamic Sampling (III) – Real-Life Data – Part I In the previous parts of the series I outlined the basics on Dynamic Sampling. Let’s see how Dynamic Sampling deals... 20 June 2012 9 min read
Dominic Delmolino Pascal matrix SQL puzzle solution I’ve been impressed with the solutions to my little problem of generating a symmetric Pascal matrix using SQL. Charles Hooper in particular has provided... 19 June 2012 1 min read
Randolf Geist Nested Loop Join Costing The basic formula for calculating the costs of a Nested Loop Join is pretty straightforward and has been described and... 14 June 2012 2 min read
Martin Giffy DSouza SELECT INTO Techinques One thing that bothers a lot of PL/SQL developers is when they have to select some data from a table... 13 June 2012 1 min read
David Njoku Introduction to Oracle Flashback Technology (Part 3: Flashback Database) In this series of articles, we are discussing the collection of tools that make up the Oracle Flashback Technology suite.... 12 June 2012 6 min read
Cary Millsap An Organizational Constraint that Diminishes Software Quality One of the biggest problems in software performance today occurs when the people who write software are different from the... 11 June 2012 1 min read
David Njoku Introduction to Oracle Flashback Technology (Part 2: Database Administrators) In the first in this series of articles on the tools in the Oracle Flashback Technology armoury, I discussed what... 31 May 2012 6 min read
Jonathan Lewis Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes For those not familiar with Richard Foote’s extensive blog about indexes (and if you’re not you should be) – the title of... 29 May 2012 2 min read
David Njoku Introduction to Oracle Flashback Technology (Part 1: Application Developers) Imagine, if you will, that someone invented time travel. What would you do with it? Nip back into the past... 16 May 2012 7 min read
Wissem El Khlifi Auto Restart Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Agent 12c Introduction: Oracle Restart is a component added to the 11gR2 in order to improve the high availability of different database... 10 May 2012 1 min read
Jonathan Lewis Oracle Heap Tables or SQL Server Clustered Indexes? Jonathan Lewis and Grant Fritchey Live Debate The following video and set of resources are from the webinar broadcast by Red Gate on 7 June 2012. Oracle... 30 April 2012 1 min read
Karen Morton How to Gather SQL Resource Consumption Metrics in Oracle The following video and set of resources are from the webinar broadcast by Red Gate on 8 May 2012. The... 26 April 2012 2 min read
