Review of Oracle Magazine–May/June 1999

The headline articles for the May/June 1999 edition of Oracle Magazine were focused on using internet technologies to allow businesses to work together more efficiently.

Other articles included:

• Oracle and Hewlett-Packard announce the a prebuild Oralce 8i appliance. This had a code-name of Raw Iron.
• Oracle announce a $100million venture fund to promote innovation by companies developing products and services based on Oracle 8i
• Oracle 8i comes with the an enhanced feature that automatically keeps a standby database synchronized with the production database. This is called the Automated Standby Databases (ASD) and hopes to reduce the amount of manual work DBAs need to perform.
• Some helpful suggestions on how to go about implementing parallel DML in Oracle 8.
• Rules for Parallel Insert
• The insert statement must be of the form ‘insert into table_name select …’
• The table being modified must have a specified parallel declaration or you must specify a parallel hint directive in the insert statement
• You can perform parallel insert on non-partitioned as well as partitioned tables
• After the parallel DML is complete no other SQL statements can access the same table until a Commit is issued.
• Rules for Parallel Update and Delete
• Table table must have a parallel declaration specified or you must specify a parallel hint directive in the update/delete statement
• You can perform parallel update or delete on partitioned tables only
• You cannot see the result of the parallel update or delete during the transaction
• By using the parallel options, data intensive SQL statements, database recovery, and data loads can be executed by multiple processes simultaneously. All the following operations can be executed in parallel
• table scan
• sort merge join
• Not In
• select distinct
• aggregation
• cube
• create table as select
• rebuild index partition
• move partition
• update
• Insert ….. select
• Enable constraint
• PL/SQL functions called from SQL
• Nested loop join
• Hash join
• Group by
• Union and union all
• Order by
• Rollup
• Create index
• Rebuild index
• Split partition
• Delete
• Star transformation

To view the cover page and the table of contents click on the image at the top of this post or click here.

My Oracle Magazine Collection can be found here. You will find links to my blog posts on previous editions and a PDF for the very first Oracle Magazine from June 1987.