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Dispelling Oracle myths seems to be a regular theme at the moment, and Steven Feuerstein dispels a few PL/SQL coding myths himself in a new article for Oracle Magazine called "Controlling Mythological Code". According to Steven, "Don’t use the XYZ feature; there was a problem back in version n.n." "Always use explicit cursors; doing so [...]

I came across this interesting presentation by Rachel Carmichael given at a recent New York Oracle User Group, entitled "How Not To Be A DBA – The Top Twenty Mistakes". It’s a light-hearted look at what *not* to do when you’re a DBA, including: "Don’t Backup If You’re On RAID5", "Index Every Column On Every [...]

If you’re in the UK and Ireland and interested in Oracle tuning, you’ll be interested to know that Cary Millsap and Gary Goodman are presenting at the next UKOUG UNIX SIG meeting on the 28th September. Their presentation is entitled "Profiling Oracle, How it Works" and has the following synopsis. "Conventional Oracle "tuning" methods are [...]