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Avoid going to the inferno

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Feb 292012
 

 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 21:10  Tagged with: goto, hell, pl/sql

It stops us all sometimes

 Select  No Responses »
Feb 272012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 21:46  Tagged with: blocking, illness, select

Personal wait event analysis

 Waits  No Responses »
Feb 242012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 17:46  Tagged with: select, wait events

Wake up and smell the public synonym pollution

 Synonyms  No Responses »
Feb 222012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 21:38  Tagged with: pollution, public synonym

Transdimensional databases

 Database link  No Responses »
Feb 202012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 07:40  Tagged with: database link, wormhole

Just because it compiles, doesn’t mean it’ll work

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Feb 172012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 07:49  Tagged with: overloading, package

Stop committing inside loops

 Loops, PL/SQL  No Responses »
Feb 152012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 07:24  Tagged with: commit, ora1555, pl/sql

Unnecessary date converisons

 Select  No Responses »
Feb 132012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 07:36  Tagged with: date conversion, select

It’s all about the hash join

 Explain plan  No Responses »
Feb 102012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 07:32  Tagged with: explain plan, getting wasted

Avoiding duplicates (the hard way)

 Constraints  2 Responses »
Feb 082012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 07:24  Tagged with: delete, unique constraint
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