January 2010


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    The case for CASE

    I’ve just uploaded my latest article. This time it is a look at the SQL keyword CASE. It’s power is often not fully appreciated. It is much more flexible and powerful than you may expect from just taking a quick glance in the official documentation. The article is located here. Please post comments and questions…

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    Interested Transaction List

    Interested Transaction List is the method through which Oracle keeps track of which transaction has updated which row in a block. I wrote an article about it a while back where I show how the ITL works and how it impacts performance in certain situations. The basis of the article is a page locking scenario…

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    Advanced Queuing

    I have just uploaded an article I wrote almost five years ago to the day. It was my first attempt and I wrote about Oracle AQ which is Oracle version of a messaging product. AQ is included with the database and has a lot of nice features including full support for XML payloads. Another important…

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