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 the world of database architecture, the need to dynamically create complex objects conflicts with the demand for subsecond response time. Oracle's answer to this dilemma is the materialized view.

I have a column of data with values resembling this: HL7_Result_for_Message_ID_123Q324343.hl7 I need to grab that ID number (in bold), the challenge being that it can be any and all lengths. I have ...

Hi<BR><BR>I am try to compare a VARCHAR field that stores a date as:<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> to_char(DateTimeField, 'MM-DD-YYYY') <> to_char(to_date ...