Watch a demo and learn how the SQL Optimizer in Toad for Oracle Xpert edition works to improve your code. Live Q&A. Don’t let poorly-optimized SQL queries slow you down We’ve focused a lot recentl...
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If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s possible to undertake a cloud migration while simultaneously upgrading Oracle versions without losing any transaction data or incurring downtime, Hotwire has prove...
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Throughout our lives we all experience watershed moments—those public and private moments and events that become turning points in our lives. In the public sphere, these are the historical moments tha...
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Part three in a blog series about SQL optimization, index tuning and yes … the quiz answers! Optimizing indexes? It’s hard. Really, really hard. At the end of my previous blog post, I gave you a po...
Poor query design and coding practices are the top Oracle database performance killers. Even with good database architecture design and no other SQL performance inhibitors, poor PLSQL code and SQL que...
