A general rule of thumb for tuning database applications is "80 percent application, 20 percent database." This means that, on average, developers can tune 20 percent of performance problems by ...

Tech jobs have never been in greater demand, but the companies that are hiring are facing an unusual dilemma. Technology is advancing so quickly that many businesses find some skills are obsolete by ...

This chapter provides reference information for using the PL/SQL packages provided with ConText to administer ConText servers and queues, as well as to obtain product information about ConText.

The PL/SQL package DBMS_RANDOM can generate random text and date values as well as numbers. Check out these code examples to learn how you can generate these values in your development work. Numbers, ...

Clearing the attribute buffer is not required to create a preference. The buffer is cleared automatically after each call to CTX_DDL.CREATE_PREFERENCE. CLEAR_ATTRIBUTE is used primarily for clearing ...

Update: Microsoft released SQL Server 2019 CU8 with a fix for the reliability issue that impacted SQL Server 2019 CU7. Microsoft pulled the Cumulative Update package 7 (CU7) for SQL Server 2019 ...