Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax to ...

If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy of it in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPY command, or a simple <code>"create table foo as select * from ...

We often see DBAs use somewhat cumbersome methods to document or write implementation steps that involve a combination of both OS (i.e. "Bash") and Oracle (i.e. "SQL Plus") commands. However, with ...