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Chapter 3:Advanced locking concepts looks into how the factors of lock escalation and lock mode conversion dictate the path that the locking strategy will follow. It continues the exploration of the ...

So, I just had a chat with my boss about Oracle and concurrency and she just shattered everything that I've ever understood about database and transactions. My understanding was that, in a transaction ...

This chapter excerpt on Parallel SQL (download PDF) is taken from the book Oracle Performance Survival Guide: A Systematic Approach to Database Optimization. Get pertinent information on optimizing ...