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Roll with the Changes
JimWankowski Friday, September 28, 2007 3:16 PM
One of the questions I get quite a bit from customers is; do we have the ability to compare data and/or have the ability to compare DDL files to what’s currently in the DB2 catalog?  As of V3.0 of TOAD for DB2 the ...
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Further Travels in Betaland
MikeA Friday, September 28, 2007 3:13 PM
Well, I decided that Linuxtown wasn’t going anywhere very fast and with the all the SRs I was leaving in my wake I soon would not be welcome by the locals so I decided I would take it on the lamb over to Windowsville for a while. Besides it was looking like the local disk array was going to pin a power supply failure on me.& ...
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SQL, Fast & Tastes Good
JeffSmith Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:18 PM
A US-based fast food chain apparently has a new advertising campaign running. I’m not exactly sure what it is supposed to be for, and most of their commercials are pretty confusing. They do have one that I like< ...
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Don't start with a blank slate!
StevenFeuersteinTW Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:23 AM
Use templates to accelerate high quality coding.

When you open a new edit window in Toad, it looks like this:

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Toad Subsets Data
Bert Monday, September 24, 2007 7:43 AM

A common task for DBAs is to create a test or development environment that has a subset of production data for testing and development purposes. As usual, Toad

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Quseful #8: Execute DDL statements from a file
StevenFeuersteinTW Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:37 AM

What's the point?
This utility will make it easy for you to read in the contents of DDL statements (like CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE) and execute them within Oracle.

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The Attack of the Clones!
JimWankowski Monday, September 17, 2007 11:28 AM
This week I am going to switch gears over to the big iron and talk about DB2 z/OS. IBM has been making great strides in the area of schema management. As any mainframe DBA knows, the process of having to make a seemingly simple schema change can result in a very complex combination of DDL, Utilities and batch processes. These changes can result in applicati ...
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In what version did Oracle add that feature?
StevenFeuersteinTW Friday, September 14, 2007 11:08 AM
I get this question a lot. I am teaching a class and a student asks: "When did Oracle add autonomous transactions?" Or the INDICES of clause. Or – who knows what?

Seeing as I am totally obses ...

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A SQL Performance History from AWR
RichardTo Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:51 PM
I have been working on SQL Tuning research for more than 10 years, but my focus has changed to time-series forecast technology in the last two years. Recently, Oracle’s AWR and other database vendor’s statistics/metrics repository have drawn my attention. The relatively low cost of keeping performance statistics in databases, combined wi ...
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Toad – not just for Oracle
JeffSmith Monday, September 10, 2007 3:46 PM
Toad® has been a popular Oracle development and administration tool for the past decade.  In fact, the original trademark for our favorite little guy was ‘T.O.A.D’ – an acronym that stood for “the Tool for Oracle Appli ...
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