Jared Still

Jared Still

"Oracle experience: started with Oracle 7.0.13 Programming Experience: Perl, PL/SQL, Shell, SQL Also some other odds and ends that are no longer useful Systems: Networking, Storage, OS to varying degrees. Have fond memories of DG/UX"

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Controlling Oracle Fetch Sizes with Oraaccess.xml

Controlling Oracle Fetch Sizes with Oraaccess.xml


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Expand your Oracle Tuning Tools with dbms_utility.expand_sql_text

Expand your Oracle Tuning Tools with dbms_utility.expand_sql_text


Expand an Oracle View to Full SELECT Text When working on a view composed of SELECT statements on other views, it can ...

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Mitigating Long Distance Network Latencies with Oracle Client Result Cache

Mitigating Long Distance Network Latencies with Oracle Client Result Cache


Recently, Pythian was engaged to investigate the performance of an application that was reported as performing poorly ...

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