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		<title>Viewing RMAN jobs status and output</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was discussing with a fellow DBA about ways to check the status of existing and/or past RMAN jobs. Good backup scripts usually write their output to some sort of log file so, checking the output is usually a straight-forward task. However, backup jobs can be scheduled in many different ways (crontab, Grid Control, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing the Flash Cache Query Tool for Oracle Exadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian is pleased to announce the new Flash Cache Query Tool for Oracle Exadata, developed by our Senior Consultant, and Oracle ACE, Christo Kutrovsky. This tool will be most valuable for Exadata DBAs and Exadata Architects that are trying to understand if the Oracle Exadata Flash Cache is used as envisioned. Read Christo&#8217;s release blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle: Limiting Query Runtime Without Killing the Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Ruthner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a customer request came in to limit the runtime of a query in a 10g database for a certain user. But since connection pooling was being used, the session itself should NOT be killed. Now, why would somebody ask for that? I think a reason to implement such a restriction is, for example, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good SQL Querying</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By &#8220;Good SQL Querying&#8221;, I am not referring to &#8220;how to make your queries more perfomant.&#8221; I am about to go on a mini-rant about how to make readable and self-documenting SQL queries. One practice that will get me instantly going on a rant is using a comma join. There is NO reason to do [...]]]></description>
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