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Expand your Oracle Tuning Tools with dbms_utility.expand_sql_text


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

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Investigating a Chain of Events Resulting in Occasional Query’s Degraded Performance in Oracle

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A client asked us to verify why an INSERT AS SELECT statement, which was part of a scheduled ETL job executing on a ...

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