You know that feeling you get when a friend tells you about a great feature or shortcut you didn’t know existed in an app that you use all the time? Feels great, doesn’t it? That’s what I’m hoping to...
Various objects in Toad Data Modeler can be customized. New tabs can be added to existing forms, new fields can appear on the tabs and you, users, can specify custom values that will be saved with oth...
Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool. I think I can say it excels in many areas, but… can it be used for database modeling? Yes and No. As you probably know, Toad Data Modeler introduced support for im...
Workspaces in Toad Data Modeler can be used for splitting Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) to smaller parts.In case your model is large, it is always recommended to use workspaces to limit the amoun...
Toad Data Modeler contains many powerful synchronization features, incl. model comparison, model merge and generation of change scripts. In addition to the complex features, there is another possibil...
In my previous blog post, I described how to create an Oracle Cloud Database. Before we continue, you should have private key file. Whoever made the database should have given it to you. There ...
Oracle's got a new thing called "Database Cloud Service" which, as the name implies, is just a database out in the cloud somewhere. It's hosted on an Oracle Unix server and you have complete control...
Active Listening You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. My advice to most people–regardless of profession–is to listen more than you speak. For a business analyst however, the art of listening ...
Introduction Execution of a SQL statement in an Oracle Parallel Server environment is slightly different then in a single instance environment. In an OPS environment additional instructions are execut...
Use array processing Array processing refers to Oracle’s ability to insert or select more than one row in a single operation. For SQL, which deals with multiple rows of data, array processing usual...
Utilizing SQL tuning features Each release of Oracle introduces new and improved SQL performance features. In particular the cost-based optimizer contains improvements in each release—many of whic...
Relieving latch contention Operations that affect the contents of the SGA require that a process acquire a latch. A latch is similar to a lock, but instead of preventing two sessions from concurren...
