Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...

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Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to catch ...