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 Toad World blogs are a mix of insightful how-tos from Quest experts as well as their commentary on experiences with new database technologies.

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Send a memo to yourself!
StevenFeuersteinTW 3/29/2007 9:37 AM

I rediscovered the joy of writing to myself a week ago, and I also was reminded of the danger of coding in isolation (that is, working by oneself).

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Toad for Oracle 9.0 - How do I Detect Performance Bottlenecks in my PL/SQL Code?
JohnPocknell Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:54 AM

In this blog, I want to introduce you to a little known feature in Toad for Oracle called the PL/SQL Profiler. Believe it or not, the profiler has been in Toad since September 1999 (Version 6)!

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Toad Data Modeler 3.0 Preview
Bert Monday, March 19, 2007 1:09 PM

In this installment I thought I'd write about the exciting, and soon to debut, Toad Data Modeler 3.0 release rather than yet another boring academic or technical topic on data modeling. TDM 3.0 is quite exciting. While it has not yet been made available for public beta – it will be very soon (so please email the product manager

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Sizing Tables in Oracle
MikeA Friday, March 16, 2007 9:22 AM

On one of my first Oracle consulting assignments I had to come up with the sizing estimates for tables for a data warehouse for a telecommunications company in California. At that time, (1994) there were few products that provided sizing al ...

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You call this work?
StevenFeuersteinTW 3/14/2007 9:54 AM
Some musings about the life of a programmer....

Two weeks ago, we held the second annual Oracle PL/SQL Programming conference (I talked about it in last week's

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Toad for Oracle 9.0 - How Do I Setup Team Coding and VCS Integration?
JohnPocknell Monday, March 12, 2007 3:12 PM
1. What is Team Coding

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Not such a crazy idea after all!
StevenFeuersteinTW 3/7/2007 11:46 AM

A couple months ago as ODTUG was working out the final details for the Oracle PL/SQL Programming 2007 conference 

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Dummy SQL Transformation Rules?
RichardTo Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:33 AM

I have been asked many times that why there are some dummy SQL transformations/rewrites that look meaningless, but it works in certain situations.  Let me give you some examples that may help to explain what theory on behind of Quest SQL Optimizer.

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Tracing, Testing, Debugging
StevenFeuersteinTW 2/23/2007 5:16 PM
Test your code! Debug your code! Trace your code! We all hear about how we should or at least could perform these activities with our programs. And all too often the terms and usages seem to blur, and be confused. In reality, these three activities – test, debug, trace – are all quite different in nature and serve different purposes.

This blog entry o ...

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How is Oracle Like Scuba Diving?
MikeA Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:08 PM

One of my favorite things to do (when I am not tuning and managing Oracle databases) is to don a scuba tank, mask, and exposure suit and slip beneath the waters surface. For a long time I wondered how to reconcile these two interests and then it came to me.

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