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Performance enhancing products

 Performance, PL/SQL  No Responses »
Apr 272012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 12:00  Tagged with: bulk collect, creatine

Prepare the executioner!

 Bad practices, PL/SQL  No Responses »
Apr 112012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 09:00  Tagged with: drop table, execute immediate, procedure

The alternative to committing in loops

 Good practices, Loops, PL/SQL  No Responses »
Apr 022012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 09:00  Tagged with: loops, savepoints

Avoid going to the inferno

 PL/SQL  No Responses »
Feb 292012
 

 

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

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

 PL/SQL  No Responses »
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

Please, format your code

 Oracle, PL/SQL  No Responses »
Jan 302012
 

 Posted by Chris Saxon at 20:31  Tagged with: code formatting

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