Index
- One More Thing: New Oracle Cloud free tier better than AWS free tier
- Northern California Oracle Users Group organizes the mother of all competitions
- NoCOUG watchers protest despicable tactics being used by NoCOUG management
- Oracle Trivia Quiz
- Results of the NoCOUG SQL Mini-Challenge
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the EXPLAIN PLAN: The story so far (Part 11–22)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the EXPLAIN PLAN: The story so far (Part 1–10)
- Editor’s Choice award at ODTUG Kscope14: NoSQL and Big Data for the Oracle Professional
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the EXPLAIN PLAN (Act II)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the EXPLAIN PLAN (Act I)
- The people behind the NoCOUG Journal
- Cupcake Wars at NoCOUG Spring Conference
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Twelve: Concluding Remarks
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Twelve: Concluding Remarks
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Eleven: Mistakes of the relational camp
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Ten: Big Data in a Nutshell
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Nine: NoSQL Taxonomy
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Eight: Oracle NoSQL Database
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Seven: Schemaless Design
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Six: The False Premise of NoSQL
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Five: Replication and Eventual Consistency
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Four: Sharding
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Three: Functional Segmentation
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Two: Requirements and Assumptions
- The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day One: Disruptive Innovation
- Statements in support of NoSQL and Big Data technology by the inventor of the relational model
- SQL v/s NoSQL: Amazon v/s eBay and the false premise of NoSQL
- SQL v/s NoSQL: Amazon v/s eBay and the false premise of NoSQL
- The Mistakes of the Relational Camp: Mistake #1: The de-emphasis of physical database design
- SQL or NoSQL? A Buyer’s Guide
- The Mistakes of the Relational Camp: Mistake #1: The de-emphasis of physical database design
- Be Very Afraid: An interview with the CTO of database security at McAfee
- Solve the Oracle Database murder mystery and win a free ticket for yourself and a friend to the NoCOUG conference
- No! to SQL and No! to NoSQL
- Solve the Oracle Database murder mystery and win a free ticket for yourself and a friend to the NoCOUG conference
- No! to SQL and No! to NoSQL
- Ten more reasons not to attend the NoCOUG summer conference on August 15
- Top 12 reasons why you should NOT attend the next NoCOUG conference
- A Brief History of Exadata Time by Juan Loaiza
- Oracle 12c Gives Fresh Life to the Relational Database Movement
- What’s so sacred about relational anyway?
- What’s your take on RDBMS and NoSQL?
- NoSQL and Oracle, Sex and Marriage
- Oracle 12c Gives Fresh Life to the Relational Database Movement
- Be Very Afraid: An interview with the CTO of database security at McAfee
- The golden rule of NOT tuning SQL
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- We don’t use databases; we don’t use indexes
- Dilbert likes Hadoop clusters
- Two instances with the same ORACLE_SID on one Unix server
- Two instances with the same ORACLE_SID on one Unix server
- Attention Looney Tuners and SQL Sinners everywhere
- Spectacular front cover picture (and articles) in the NoCOUG Journal
- Results of the Third International NoCOUG SQL Challenge
- Solve the SQL mini-challenge and attend the November 15 NoCOUG conference for free
- Which data belongs in a relational DBMS? Asking Gwen Shapira, Thomas Kurian, and Dr. Edgar Codd
- If the Cost Based Optimizer was a car, what would its bumper sticker say?
- How Not to Interview a Database Administrator (The Google Way)
- Please Ma’am, What is Big Data? Gwen Gives Good Guidance
- Freedom from unread books
- NoCOUG Networking Game #1: Name That Winner!
- The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Oracle Career (Sign the Pledge)
- Show Me the Way—with the innovator behind Statspack and AWR
- Hardware Eye for the Database Guy (Episodes 2–4 at NoCOUG Conference #102 on May 31)
- If the Cost Based Optimizer was a car, what would its bumper sticker say?
- SQL vs NoSQL: Third International NoCOUG SQL & NoSQL Challenge sponsored by Pythian
- Third International NoCOUG SQL & NoSQL Challenge
- I sed awk!
- Part 1: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL: Lateral derived tables and other alternatives to GROUP BY
- Relational joins are expensive by definition (NOT), therefore abandon the relational model (NOT)
- Explosive Revelations about Dr. Edgar (Ted) Codd rock the NoSQL World
- POISED: A systematic six-step method for solving database performance problems (and every other problem)
- A Whole New World of MySQL—with Baron Schwartz of Percona
- 2011 in review
- The way you write your query matters: Performance comparison between CONNECT BY and recursive subquery factoring
- Professor Stonebraker’s strong opinions on SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, and Oracle
- Results of the Second International NoCOUG SQL Challenge
- Day 12: The Twelve Days of SQL: Readers do not block writers; writers do not block readers
- Day 11: The Twelve Days of SQL: AWR and Statspack are a goldmine of historical performance data
- Day 10: The Twelve Days of SQL: Sometimes the optimizer needs a hint
- Day 9: The Twelve Days of SQL: Physical database design matters
- Day 8: The Twelve Days of SQL: Statistics are a double-edged sword
- Day 7: The Twelve Days of SQL: EXPLAIN PLAN lies
- Day 6: The Twelve Days of SQL: The execution plan is a tree
- Day 5: The Twelve Days of SQL: The query cost is only an estimate
- Day 4: The Twelve Days of SQL: The way you write your query matters
- Day 3: The Twelve Days of SQL: There isn’t always a single optimal query plan for a SQL query
- Day 2: The Twelve Days of SQL: SQL is a non-procedural language
- The 12 Days of SQL: 12 Things Every Oracle DBA and Developer Should Know About SQL (Day 1)
- How a tiny slip can lead to big delays
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- Conference 100 Report: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Join the Occupy movement. Occupy the Computer History Museum next Wednesday.
- Halloween Special: Bring a guest for free to the Computer History Museum on November 9
- Download the AWESOME 100th issue of the NoCOUG Journal
- Results of the Second International NoCOUG SQL Challenge
- Three-Star Oracle Indexes and Three-Star Oracle Conferences
- The Oldest Oracle Users Group in the World (The Little Oracle Users Group That Could)
- Unconventional Wisdom: Do we probably need RAC, Exadata, Oracle Database 12c, MySQL, certification, and Oracle user groups?
- NoCOUG Conference 100 sponsored by Quest Software—Simplicity at Work
- Yes, the Rule-Based Optimizer still lives in Oracle Database 11g
- Lesson 2 of 40: Physical Database Design for Oracle Databases: Non-Necessity?
- Lesson 1 of 40: Physical Database Design for Oracle Databases: Necessity and Definition
- Conference Report: The Power of a SAN in the Palm of Your Hand
- NoCOUG Journal #99: Do we probably need RAC, Exadata, Oracle 12c, MySQL, certification, ITIL, and NoCOUG?
- NoCOUG Conference #99 on August 18: The British are coming! The British are coming!
- Take That, Exadata: Fast Index Creation using NOPARALLEL
- NoCOUG Needs Your Help
- Do you agree that SQL needs massive improvement?
- Why SQL Loses and NoSQL Wins
- When to Rebuild Secondary Indexes on Index-Organized Tables?
- I want to become a DBA. What can you recommend for new learners like me?
- Ten Provocative Questions for Mogens Norgaard
- Major New Undocumented Partitioning Feature in Oracle Database 11g Release 2
- Three Four Good Reasons to Attend NoCOUG Conference #98
- Is Comic Sans really a font or a description of many people’s storage tier?
- Inspirational Quotes for Database Administrators
- Secret of Oracle Database Performance Found in 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog
- Multidimensional Clustering (MDC) in Oracle Database
- Common errors seen when using OUTER JOIN: Join to a Constant
- Storage Seminar by James Morle at NoCOUG (Announcement)
- You can’t hardware yourself out of a performance problem you softwared yourself into
- NoCOUG Hall of Fame
- Hot Off The Press: The NoCOUG Journal and the Second International NoCOUG SQL Challenge
- Favorite Quotes: Just A Mess Without A Clue
- Career Advice for Oracle Professionals from Oracle ACE Director Arup Nanda
- A SQL Minute: Injudicious Use of Views (SQL AntiPatterns)
- A SQL Minute: Using a Table To Provide Query Parameters (Query AntiPatterns)
- A SQL Minute: The Rest Is History
- SQL Ridicu-List: Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone
- Log Buffer #211, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
- SQL Curiosities: Disconnected EXPLAIN PLAN
- Career Advice: Personality, Traits, and Attributes of a DBA
- Twas the night before Christmas
- Teaser Announcement: Second International NoCOUG SQL Challenge
- Which Query is Better?—Part III (No EXPLAIN PLAN To Rule Them All)
- SQL 101: Deep Left Trees, Deep Right Trees, and Bushy Trees! Oh, My!
- Explaining The EXPLAIN PLAN Using Pictures
- Breakfast Buffet at the NoCOUG Fall Conference 2010
- Career Advice: Check Job Listings Before Making Career Decisions
- Bookmania at the NoCOUG Fall Conference 2010
- Become a Rock Star DBA: Download the NoCOUG Journal
- The Worst Interview of My Life
- SQL 101: Which Query is Better?—Part II
- Mailbag: Advice For a Young Computer Professional
- SQL Challenge Part II: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?
- SQL Challenge: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?
- It’s the End of the World As We Know It (NoSQL Edition) (via I’m just a simple DBA on a complex production system)
- DBA 101: What Does SERIALIZABLE Really Mean?
- India Trip Report: The Oracle Documentation is Always Correct NOT
- Conference Announcement: I Am Sir Oracle, Let No Dog Bark!
- Conference Announcement: A Day in the Life of an Oracle Process and 52 Weeks in the Life of a Database
- Conference Announcement: How to Become a Rock Star DBA
- SQL 101: Which Query is Better?
- Breaking News: Winners of the First-Ever PL/SQL Challenge Championship Playoff
- Dilbert Was A Database Administrator (Part II)
- Mailbag: To Upgrade, or Not to Upgrade—That is the Question
- Mailbag: Jumpstarting an IT Career After Twelve Years
- Bad Information Lives Forever on the Internet
- Is Oracle Database a Legacy Technology?
- Battle Against Any Guess with Alex Gorbachev
- Pictures from the NoCOUG Spring Conference
- Log Buffer #189, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
- Download the NoCOUG Journal featuring an interview with Alex Gorbachev
- Perhaps The Enemy is Us? An Interview with Brian Hitchcock
- Advertisement: IOUG Collaborate 2010 Presentations
- SQL Quiz: Five Popular Myths About SQL Performance
- Mailbag: Becoming a DBA
- Statistics—How and When
- Oracel CEO Tearfully Promises Reform
- Deja Vu: Five Dangerous Beliefs About SQL Performance
- Comparison Between Window Functions and the GROUP BY clause
- The Bottom Line About Oracle Deadlocks (Sequel to It Was a Dark and Stormy Night)
- Interview: Spotlight on Tuning With Guy Harrison
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (A Story About Deadlocks)
- Dilbert Was A Database Administrator (Part I)
- Mailbag: SQL Exercises
- I Heart Recursive Subquery Factoring (Recursive Common Table Expressions)
- Conference Report: NoCOUG Winter Conference
- Not the SQL of My Kindergarten Days
- Advertisement: Complimentary issue of the NoCOUG Journal for year 2009 members
- Advertisement: Please review the NoCOUG winter conference agenda and RSVP today
- Advertisement: Five Reasons Not to Attend a NoCOUG Conference in 2010
- The Lighter Side: RMOUG or Bust
- Published Articles
- When Two Joins Are Better Than One
- An Essential DBA Skill (Part II)
- An Essential DBA Skill (Part I)
- Knowledge for a dollar! Got a dollar, brother?
- Classic Metalink Retires
- Fun with XOR
- Manageability By Design (MBD)
- Feuerthoughts: An Interview with Steven Feuerstein
- Query Tuning By Example: Throw Away That Execution Plan
- SQL Quiz: Which Query is Better?
- Questioning Method R: An Interview with Cary Millsap
- Mailbag: Advice for an Oracle 9i DBA
- No Magic is Needed; A Systematic Approach Will Do
- Report: NoCOUG Summer Conference 2009
- Spotlight on Oracle: An Interview with Bert Scalzo
- Fresh Perspectives: An Interview with Karen Morton
- Where Have All The Jobs Gone? (Part II)
- The Tenth Solution
- Great Expectations: An Interview with Tanel Poder
- NoCOUG Summer Conference 2009
- Results of the First International NoCOUG SQL Challenge
- Free Oracle Database 11g Upgrade Workshop
- The Curious Case of The Cartesian Join
- Who Should Tune SQL: The DBA or The Developer?
- Mailbag: Is It Too Late For Me To Start Oracle?
- The First International NoCOUG SQL Challenge: Nine Ways To Change a Lightbulb
- Where Have All The Jobs Gone?
- Mailbag: Is This Book For Me?
- Does the Optimizer Need a Hint?
- It Ain’t So Much The Things We Don’t Know
- Comic Book on Relational Databases
- Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG)
- Show Me a Picture!
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