Learn SQL Server Roy Ernest in Learn SQL Server Resource Governor If you suffer from runaway queries, if you have several database applications with unpredictable fluctuation in workload, or if you... 26 October 2011 23 min read
David Njoku Introduction to Scheduled Jobs Psst, wanna see something cool? I bet I can read your future. Your tomorrow is going to be almost exactly... 17 October 2011 7 min read
Tim Hall Cloud Control 12c R1 Installation on Oracle Linux 5.7 & 6.1 Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is the new name for what was previously know as Enterprise Manager Grid Control. Depending on... 12 October 2011 1 min read
Grant Fritchey Auditing DDL Changes in SQL Server databases Even where Source Control isn't being used by developers, it is still possible to automate the process of tracking the... 12 October 2011 17 min read
Gert Poel What’s Your Choice for Oracle Forms? Forms was a great tool and stood for fast and easy development. You could create nice data entry applications in... 11 October 2011 6 min read
Robert Sheldon Implementing Checkpoints in an SSIS Package Like any other application, an SSIS package can fail. Once the problem has been resolved, you'll usually restart the package,... 10 October 2011 12 min read
David Njoku Introduction to Virtual Private Databases You know the story. A group of blind men come across an elephant and each one feels a part... 04 October 2011 6 min read
Performance Jonathan Kehayias in Performance A Performance Troubleshooting Methodology for SQL Server When healing a sick SQL Server, you must forget the idea that there could ever be a simple correspondence between... 28 September 2011 33 min read
Patrick Barel Bulk Processing in Oracle Part 2 The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. – John Gray... 27 September 2011 4 min read
Learn SQL Server Robert Young in Learn SQL Server Going Beyond the Relational Model with Data SQL is a powerful tool for querying data, and for aggregating it. However, you can't easily use it to draw... 27 September 2011 28 min read
Joe Celko Mimicking Network Databases in SQL Unlike the hierarchical database model, which created a tree structure in which to store data, the network model formed a... 26 September 2011 11 min read
Gert Poel Oracle Forms Survey Posted by Gert Poel on the the iAdvise blog: I want to call all Oracle Forms developers and administrators to... 23 September 2011 1 min read
Chet Justice ORACLENERD T-Shirts Recently I was asked to create some merchandise that fell outside of my norm. Specifically, I was asked to create... 20 September 2011 2 min read
Alex Nuijten How Long is this String? A quick puzzle from Alex Nuijten’s blog: How long is the folowing string?: to_char (10, ‘0999’) Have a think, and... 15 September 2011 1 min read
Jim Tilson Writing Better Dynamic SQL Dynamic SQL is a powerful tool. In its proper place it can achieve quite a bit of work in a... 14 September 2011 7 min read
Geoff Hudik Red Gate Schema Compare for Oracle Review From Geoff Hudik’s blog. As part of my recent role in application release management, I have had to compare and... 13 September 2011 2 min read
Database Administration Brad McGehee in Database Administration Database Properties Health Check Within an instance of SQL Server, the database settings can have a direct effect on the database's behavior, performance and... 13 September 2011 35 min read
Tools Grant Fritchey in Tools SQL# (SQLsharp): A Review Only the brave, and foolhardy, write production CLR routines if you can get the functionality already-written and tested. Whether you're... 13 September 2011 19 min read
BI Robert Sheldon in BI Debugging Data Flow in SQL Server Integration Services You can save a lot of time by using the SSIS Troubleshooting tools. These enable you to work with reduced... 13 September 2011 13 min read
David Njoku Introduction to Regular Expressions in Oracle Regular expressions – RegEx or RegExp to their friends – were fashionably late in coming to the Oracle party. The... 06 September 2011 5 min read
