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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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Toad for Oracle 9.0 - How do I Debug PL/SQL Combined into a Single File?
JohnPocknell	Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:24 PM

In this short blog, I want to cover a topic which quite a few customers have asked me about over the years, and that is where they need to debug a Package where the Package Specification and Package Body is stored on their file system as a combined file.

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Greetings from Las Vegas!
StevenFeuersteinTW	4/19/2007 9:16 AM

I am visiting this, well, very artificial paradise dropped into the middle of a desert, so as to participate in Collaborate 07. It's been an interesting and fun several days. I have a room on the 26^th floor of the Mandalay

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We don’t need no stinking modeling tool
Bert	Friday, April 13, 2007 3:49 PM

You’ll have to forgive me for spoofing the famous movie line “We don’t need no stinking badges” (Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948 and Blazing Saddles, 1974), it just seemed quite apropos
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Sizing of Oracle10g Indexes
MikeA	Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:15 AM

In my last blog entry we looked at sizing tables in 10g, of course the other side of that coin is the sizing of indexes. As with tables the Oracle8 manuals had an explanation of how to size indexes, but manuals since then have been strangely silent on the subject. In this blog I will address the sizing of normal, b-tree ...

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Is SQL Optimization an Unsolvable Problem?
RichardTo	Monday, April 02, 2007 12:27 PM

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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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