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Stored Procedures: Still Relevant

(Michael K. Campbell) The key takeaway from my presentation was that even if developers are totally committed to using object-relational mappers, or ORMs (because of the productivity benefits they provide), it’s still worthwhile to assume or anticipate that if/when your application becomes very succ

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‘A Ponderous Chain’

(David Fitzjarrell) Chained and migrated rows in an Oracle database can seriously impact I/O performance, especially with Exadata. In a ‘normal’ Oracle database [read that as "non-Exadata, non-ASM" database] chained rows, in small numbers where that usually means 1% or less of the total rows in a ta