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There are many reasons to deploy Oracle on Linux. The more important ones are the flexibility and non-proprietary characteristics of Linux. But the key advantage is that the entire server side code stack from the OS to the application layer is supported by Oracle. Using the best practices Oracle has
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(Graz) This article covers the basic of transactions. It describes them and gives examples of committing and rolling back transactions. It also shows how to properly trap errors inside a stored procedure using transactions.
Getting Started with Microsoft SQL Server 6.x Replication
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(David Kline and Gabor Wieser) For the DBA who is just stepping into the world of DB2 or for the prospective DBA, the design and performance choices for a new database can be very confusing. In this article we will discuss a couple of areas where the DBA has important choices to make: table spaces a
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