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FT-Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Or, FTP with Toad
JeffSmith Friday, August 31, 2007 4:12 PM

It’s no secret that I am a die hard Toad® fanatic. There are many reasons for this, but the one I want to talk about today is one of Toad’s best kept secrets: a commercial-grade FTP client built right into Toad!

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The importance of SQL scalability testing
JimWankowski Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:26 PM

As we all know, there are many factors that influence the performance of your application. Proper memory allocations, physical design, how the SQL is written and workload all affect the way your queries perform. One of most overlooked parts of testing an application is testing queries under production workload conditions.< ...

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Quseful #7: Kill those infinite loops!
StevenFeuersteinTW Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:42 PM

I don't know about you, but I sometimes write code that (inadvertently, not on purpose) contains an infinite loop. So I run my program and Toad goes off into never-never land, with Oracle chewing up CPU cycles so intently that it is hard to connect as SYS and kill the session.

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Oracle 11g Introduces Invisible Indexes
Bert Monday, August 27, 2007 6:09 AM
As I wrote last week, Oracle 11g has a plethora of really great new features. One that should really hit a home run with data warehousing DBAs is “Invisible Indexes.” The name is not a joke – they are exactly what they say. An invisible index is ignored by the query optimizer when forming an explain plan for a SELECT statement, ...
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The Toad Family brings home a new Tadpole
JeffSmith Friday, August 24, 2007 9:00 AM

For more than 10 years now, Toad has been THE tool for Oracle developers, DBAs, and analysts.  A few years ago, Quest began introducing versions of Toad that brought native support to popular platforms such as

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Undocumented But Supported Feature In Oracle11g: Reference Fields Of Records In A FORALL Statement!
StevenFeuersteinTW Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:41 AM

Kudos to Alex Nuijten for bringing this gem to light, he wrote in his latest AMIS blog entry that:

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Oracle 11g Improves Partitioning
Bert Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:21 AM
Oracle 11g has a plethora of great new features. One area that has improved with each of the last four releases has been partitioning, i.e. the method to break larger tables into smaller, more manageable and efficient sub-tables. While it was originally touted as a boon for just the data warehousing world, partitioning no ...
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Quseful #6: Generate collections of random values
StevenFeuersteinTW Friday, August 17, 2007 9:27 AM
You will find in this Quseful a package that will generate/return collections of random values of strings, numbers and dates. It also contains a "self-test" random_verifier procedure that you can run to verify "at a glance" that the values being generated seem
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Welcome to the Toad for DB2 blog
JimWankowski Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:41 AM
Welcome to my inaugural blog for Toad® for DB2.  Many of you may not be aware that Toad is now a multiplatform solution. I plan to discuss subjects across both DB2 running on the LUW platf ...
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Oracle 11g Adds Virtual Columns & Indexes
Bert Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:18 AM

Oracle 11g is out for Linux – and like every new release, there’s tons of cool new stuff. So over the next few weeks, I will write about some of Oracle 11g’s new features. This week, I’ll look at Virtual Columns and Virtual Indexes.

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