After Hours

I'm an optimist and I was raised to not say anything if I couldn't say something nice. Now that's not to say I'm going to say something nice if I don't have something nice to say. I just won't say...<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/004951.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

You unlock this data with the key of Oracle. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of indexes, a dimension of queries, a dimension of code. You're moving into a land of both performance and maintenance, of money and...<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/004979.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

Final part of a 4 part series on objects in Oracle. This entry concentrates on creating object tables and object views.<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/005014.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

This entry is not about Oracle or databases. If you like to surf the web or if you blog, you'll enjoy reading this....<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/005032.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

EWeek and other media outlets are reporting that Oracle has changed (or is clarifying) its licensing with multi-core CPUs....<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/005058.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

This is a quickie entry. I'm troubleshooting a new error. In some ways week 2 is better than week 1. At least I have all of the data loaded now....<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/005068.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

The week has really just begun but my current project started to really take off on Saturday. I'm knee deep in queries and tuning at this point. When last I wrote, I was having a dreaded ORA-00600. I'm still getting...<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/005121.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

Wow. Friday is finally here. The testing is almost done. Isn't it? Oh. I need to extend for another week to do additional memory sizing tests? IBM is going to love hearing that....<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/005172.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

I've never seen a memory configuration like this and probably never will again. I just had to post this. If you have a bigger memory pool, post your startup stats....<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/005203.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>

The basic Data Manipulation Language (DML) commands that have been in use over the years are Update, Insert and Delete. They do exactly what you expect: Insert adds new records, Update modifies existing records and Delete removes records....<p><div class="blogdisclaim"><a href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/005246.asp?rss=1">This post originally appeared on an external website</a></div>