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SELECT Journal
Volume 15, No. 2, 2nd Quarter 2008

Features

• Oracle Database 11g: How NOT to RAC Your Brain
  By Matthew Zito
  Zito takes a good look at Oracle Database 11g and how automation can help the DBA.
• The New Generation of MetaLink
  By April Sims
  MetaLink, the customer support portal, is evolving to provide an improved customer experience for all Oracle Premier Support customers. In this article, Sims gives readers a sneak peek at Metalink V3 including the Configuration Support Manager.
• Join Cardinality Estimation with Histograms Explained
  By Alberto Dell’Era
  Dell’Era explains how the Cost Based Optimizer estimates the cardinality of a join when histograms are in place. His goal is to explain how it works in intuitive terms.
• Integrating Oracle Database 10g XML: A Case Study
  By Coleman Leviter
  Leviter discusses the use of XML DB and details design criteria that one should consider when using XML in a project.
• Inside Oracle Database 11g Automated SQL Plan Management
  By Don Burleson
  As of Oracle Database 11g Oracle has embraced a “holistic” approach to tuning, allowing the DBA to test changes against a real-world workload. Holistic tuning in Oracle Database 11g is offered through several areas, most importantly the SQL Performance Advisor (SPA) and the automated SQL Plan Management facility.
• Oracle Development Tool Review—The Full Verdict
  By Chris Muir, et. al.
  This article reviews probably the most keenly debated, and often, heatedly discussed topic among Oracle’s development community: “Which development tool is best?”

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