Dear NoCOUG Members and Friends, Have you always wanted to be a Rock Star DBA? Here’s how. RSVP now for the NoCOUG Summer conference on Thursday, August 19 at the Chevron campus in San Ramon. Harvest the knowledge from numerous technical presentations by Oracle gurus such as performance-tuning expert Craig Shallahamer. Participate in the free [...]
I was asked the following question (paraphrased) during a job interview: In general, there are lots of ways of expressing a particular query requirement in SQL with implications for query performance. For example, which departments have employees with salaries greater than a certain cutoff? Here are two ways to express this query requirement in SQL. [...]
This came across the wire a few moments ago: On 15 July 2010, 32 developers participated in the first-ever PL/SQL Challenge championship playoff. This playoff (consisting of ten questions to be answered in 15 minutes) was the culmination of a three-month competition in which PL/SQL developers from around the world tested their knowledge of PL/SQL [...]
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