Oracle9i includes numerous data structures to improve the speed of Oracle SQL queries. Taking advantage of the low cost of disk storage, Oracle9i includes many new indexing algorithms that ...

In this blog post, I demonstrate an advantage of being more explicit in typing when using Groovy SQL with an Oracle database to avoid a potential “ Invalid column index ” SQLException because I’ve run ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

Organizations seeking to better secure their Oracle database deployments would do well to look more closely at their Oracle index infrastructure, which is open to a number of attacks on both patched ...