Oracle Magazine Ask Tom Columns
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July/August 2008 On Redefinition, Nature, and Triggers Our technologist redefines tables, compares keys, and warns about DDL in triggers.
May/June 2008 On Seeing Double in V$SQL Our technologist looks at SQL repetition in V$SQL and differences in cardinality.
March/April 2008 Oracle Database 11g Redux Our technologist continues to explore Oracle Database 11g features.
January/February 2008 On Tuning by Tracing Our technologist does a tune-up with SQL_TRACE.
November/December 2007 More on Oracle Database 11g Our technologist takes another look at Oracle Database 11g.
September/October 2007 On Oracle Database 11g Our technologist takes a look at the server results and PL/SQL function caches.
July/August 2007 On Ignoring, Locking, and Parsing Our technologist looks out for WHEN OTHERS, locks, cascades, and parses.
May/June 2007 On Loading and Extents Our technologist follows the direct path and optimizes extent usage.
March/April 2007 On Cursors, SQL, and Analytics Our technologist referees between cursors, SQL statements, analytics, and aggregates.
January/February 2007 On Top-n and Pagination Queries Our technologist gets more results using ROW_NUMBER, RANK, and DENSE_RANK.
November/December 2006 On Rescue Analytics and Popularity Our technologist explains the saving power of analytics and shares popularity.
September/October 2006 On ROWNUM and Limiting Results Our technologist explains how ROWNUM works and how to make it work for you.
July/August 2006 On Speeding, Dating, and Spelling Our technologist finds the OS, makes things appear faster, dates clients, and spells out numbers.
May/June 2006 On Joins and Query Plans Our technologist optimizes joins and explains changing plans.
March/April 2006 On Deduping and Ordering Our technologist deletes duplicates, gives trigger orders, and explains how SELECT locks.
January/February 2006 On Sharing, Splitting, and Deleting Our technologist shares cursors, splits large tables, and deletes securely.
November/December 2005 On Transaction Isolation Levels Our technologist isolates transactions safely.
September/October 2005 My First Day with the New Release Our technologist talks about his first experience with Oracle Database 10g Release 2.
July/August 2005 On Searching and Synonyms Our technologist searches, moves, and finds synonyms.
May/June 2005 On Favorites and CONNECT BY Our technologist picks, expands, loads, and dates.
March/April 2005 On Rollups, Merges, and Moves Our technologist materializes, merges, and moves.
January/February 2005 On Injecting and Comparing Our technologist speaks on safe injections, comparing tables, and materialized views.
November/December 2004 On Partitioning and Pipelining Our technologist speaks on UNION ALL, pipelines, and Saturdays.
September/October 2004 On Fetching, Storing, and Indexing Our technologist fetches sequentially, stores inline, and indexes globally.
July/August 2004 On Numbers and Analytics Our technologist searches, numbers, analyzes, and orders.
May/June 2004 On Sorts, Selecting, and Selectivity Our technologist looks at sorting, cursors, architecting, selecting, and extracting.
March/April 2004 On Format, Negation and Sliding Our technologist discusses determining space required, randomizing, and partition outer joins.
January/February 2004 On Uniqueness, Space, and Numbers Our technologist modifies formats, makes zeros zeros, and avoids slides.
November/December 2003 On Constraints, CASE, and Cursors Our technologist talks integrity, time, and belonging.
September/October 2003 On HTML DB, Bulking Up, and Speeding Our technologist looks at Oracle Database 10g's HTML DB, building bulk, and improving speed.
July/August 2003 On Procedures, Flushes, and Writes Our expert compares triggers procedures, flushing, and not flushing.
May/June 2003 On Measuring Distance and Aging Our expert computes distance without aging and highlights favorite Oracle9i features.
March/April 2003 On Partitions, Lookups, and Integrity Our expert partitions, looks up with a PL/SQL table, and does everything with referential integrity.
January/February 2003 On the Explicit, Size, and Complex Our techologist answers questions on cursors, extents, and intervals.
November/December 2002 On Asking, Chaining, and Decoding. Our technologist answers questions about questions, chained rows, and decoding.
September/October 2002 Now Showing and Playing. Our Oracle technologist shows how to use the unused index and how to play.
July/August 2002 Parsing Densities, ANYDATA, and XML. Our technologist looks at the hard parse, the soft parse, and the softer parse.
May/June 2002 On Creating, Dating, and Binding Our technologist creates XML, translates dates, and binds variables.
March/April 2002 Blocks, Messages, Rows A look at block-level information, HTML messages, estimating rows, and AQ.
January/February 2002 Finding Order Our technologist settles the packages-versus-procedures debate.
November/December 2001 Beyond Init.ora and SYS Oracle9i, init.ora, SPFILE, SYS, INTERNAL, and the last row.
September/October 2001 On Different Users, Different Passwords, and Hidden Ability Passwords, undocumented functionality, a different export, and different SGAs.
July/August 2001 Getting What You Want Learn how to get just the rows you want.
May/June 2001 Java, the ESCAPE Sequence, and Synonym Alternatives Serializing Java objects, using ESCAPE with LIKE, communicating return code from SQL*Plus, and using a synonym to view.
March/April 2001 Automation, Cleanup, and Database Maintenance Automatic index maintenance, shows you how to clean up killed sessions faster, and explains differences in Oracle releases.
January/February 2001 Speeding Up, Working Out, and Getting Secure Function-based indexes, SQL, Net8 listener, and user lists.

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