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ADF and service dependencies

(Maarten Smeets) In order to keep the business-IT gap manageable, it is important for analysts, designers and architects to know what their implemented application landscape actually looks like. An important part of this is insight in dependencies between different components.

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OPTIMIZER_MODE = FIRST_ROWS_N

(Andrew Reid) I have known about the first_rows optimizer mode for some time. This tells Oracle to use an execution path which will return the first few rows as quickly as possible. However, I recently read about the first_rows_n optimizer mode, which apparently appeared first in Oracle 9.

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Database Anti-Patterns

Recently I encountered a database design intended to reduce the load on a relational database that actually had the reverse impact. The problem was a parent child relationship having a 1 to 1 or many relationship. Normally you would use two tables. You would have a parent table and a child table, containing a foreign key to the parent table. […]

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RDBMS Concept In Normalization & De-normalization of Data — Part 4

RDBMS Concept In Normalization & De-normalization of Data – Part 4 As stated in the last article that “In the forthcoming article we will be noticing particular fine point’s concerning the Practical Reliance of Normalization, few rules for converting the tables from one Normal Form to another Normal Form and then focusing on what is De-Normalization?”, here is the article....

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