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Oracle Extends Another Deadline

By Michael Singer – Oracle Friday postponed yet another deadline in its $7.3 billion takeover bid for applications rival PeopleSoft. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giant said it has extended its announced tender to midnight EST on Wednesday, December 31, 2003. Previously, the offer

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Optimizing Oracle Performance

Oracle DBAs and developers are all too familiar with the outlay of time and resources, blown budgets, missed deadlines, and marginally effective performance fiddling that is commonplace with traditional methods of Oracle performance tuning. In Optimizing Oracle Performance, Cary Millsap, former VP o

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Improve Results with Query Rewrite

Are you tired of waiting for your queries to return results? Have you already tried adding indexes and tuning the SQL, and still can’t improve query performance? Well, have you considered creating materialized views? With materialized views, reports that used to take hours to run can complete in min