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Oracle database design and architecture


Have a question about best practices for Oracle database design, configuration and table design? This section contains the tips and expert adivce for DBMS versions 8, 9i, 10g and 11g to help you out.
IN THIS TOPIC:  NEWS (54) , EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (2057) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (6) , DEFINITIONS (12)

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Spotlight on Oracle performance tuning
ARTICLE - Performance tuning is a key task for any Oracle DBA. This spotlight includes tips and advice to help you meet your tuning challenges and keep users happy.

  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 54
Review: Oracle's 11g R2 database has some good and bad
SearchOracle.com | 23 Sep 2009
ARTICLE - Oracle made no major architectural enhancements to the 11g R2 database, but it made some useful changes and added some clunkers, too.
Oracle releases new database, says 11g upgrade will cut costs
SearchOracle.com | 01 Sep 2009
ARTICLE - Oracle released its new 11g R2 database today. But will users embark on an Oracle 11g upgrade? And why should they?
Oracle database in the cloud floated at Harvard lab
SearchOracle.com | 01 Oct 2008
ARTICLE - A lab at Harvard Medical School is one of the first customers to test Oracle cloud computing, an initiative Oracle announced last week.
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  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 2057
ORACLE DATABASE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE EXPERTS
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ASK A QUESTION
Can I install an Oracle client on Windows 7?
28 Oct 2009
EXPERT ANSWER - Learn why you would be unable to install an Oracle client on Windows 7 for Oracle 10g, and whether you could install the Oracle 11g client on Windows in this tip from an Oracle expert.
How to use V$SEGMENT_STATISTICS to find the most accessed Oracle table
28 Oct 2009
EXPERT ANSWER - Learn how to use the V$SEGMENT_STATISTICS view to find the most accessed table in an Oracle database with this query from Oracle expert Brian Peasland.
How to use the Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA)
26 Oct 2009
EXPERT ANSWER - Oracle expert Brian Peasland explains in what scenarios to use the Oracle Database Upgrade Assistant and more about the Oracle DBUA in this expert tip.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 6
Oracle database performance tuning guide
SearchOracle.com | 03 Nov 2004
LEARNING GUIDE - Learn the tricks of industry experts for identifying and eliminating perfomance problems in this guide.
RDBMS fundamentals
24 Jun 2005
FEATURED TOPIC - This learning guide can help you to understand the theory that serves as the foundation for Oracle's software and offer practical tips for designing and working with it.
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) fundamentals tutorial
SearchOracle.com | 21 Jun 2005
LEARNING GUIDE - New to database administration or development? Here's a quick guide that can get you started by providing background on the relational model and practical advice for working with a relational database management system.
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 12
flexfield
05 Jul 2004
WORD - In an Oracle environment, a flexfield is a database field that has flexibility built into it so that users can define reporting structures that are relevant to their specific organizations. Two types of flexfields are ...
row
27 Oct 2003
WORD - In a database, a row (sometimes called a record) is the set of fields within a table that are relevant to a specific entity. For example, in a table called customer contact information, a row would likely contain fields such ...
extent
05 Jul 2003
WORD - 1) An extent is a set of contiguous blocks allocated in a database. In the Oracle database program, the first set of contiguous blocks, set up automatically when a segment is created, is called the initial extent. After the ...
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