Oracle magazine<\/a>. Tom’s stuff is invariably good, but I particularly liked this column because it discusses one fundamental topic – joins and the different approaches and query plans and a slightly more esoteric topic – strange side-effects of DBMS_STATS – and explains them extremely well, with the usual detailed illustrations.<\/p>\nThe second is in the current edition of Oracle Scene, the magazine of the UKOUG. In the News section at the end is a report of the Blogger’s dinner at the last UKOUG. It makes an interesting read, but frankly I think it’s shocking that there’s a link to Danish johnny-come-latelys who didn’t even *have* a blog at the time of the dinner, when my blog is completely overlooked! I bet it’s that Mark Rittman that’s to blame 😉 I can forgive him, though, because he managed to get the Lisa Dobson\/Tom Kyte water incident into print, possibly for the first time.<\/p>\n
Actually, there are quite a few interesting-looking articles in there, but I haven’t had time to read them yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the past week, I noticed a couple of interesting Oracle-related articles. The first is Tom Kyte’s regular column in Oracle magazine. Tom’s stuff is invariably good, but I particularly liked this column because it discusses one fundamental topic – joins and the different approaches and query plans and a slightly more esoteric topic –… Continue reading A Couple of Articles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":923,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/31\/ukoug-2005-day-0\/","url_meta":{"origin":798,"position":0},"title":"UKOUG 2005 – Day 0","date":"October 31, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, that's the first day done. 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