In the world of database architecture, the need to dynamically create complex objects conflicts with the demand for subsecond response time. Oracle's answer to this dilemma is the materialized view.

Oracle9i includes numerous data structures to improve the speed of Oracle SQL queries. Taking advantage of the low cost of disk storage, Oracle9i includes many new indexing algorithms that ...

The SQL Developer unit testing framework involves a set of sequential steps for each test case. The steps are as follows, including the user input for before the step is run and the framework ...

Hi<BR><BR>I am try to compare a VARCHAR field that stores a date as:<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> to_char(DateTimeField, 'MM-DD-YYYY') <> to_char(to_date ...

I have a column of data with values resembling this: HL7_Result_for_Message_ID_123Q324343.hl7 I need to grab that ID number (in bold), the challenge being that it can be any and all lengths. I have ...

Developers can use the ORDER SIBLINGS BY feature of Oracle 10g and later to sort the records in a hierarchy created by the START WITH and CONNECT BY clauses in a SELECT statement. Oracle’s START WITH ...

For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system. Such a sizeable ...