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Tips and Tricks provides an in-depth understand of a specific function or illustrates how best to accomplish a particular task when using Quest SQL Optimizer for Oracle.
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Recent Tips and Tricks

How to use the Batch Optimizer with Rule Based Optimizer

by Rene Woody
Learn about the way to determine how many SQL statements are executed in the Batch Optimzer when your database is using the Rule Based Optimizer.
Post Date: Monday, November 2, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to select the criteria for terminating SQL alternatives

by Rene Woody
Learn about the options that you have for terminating SQL alternatives when testing for the best run time.
Post Date: Monday, October 19, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to select the criteria for determining the "best SQL"

by Rene Woody
Learn about the two options that are available to determine which SQL statement is the best alternative for your application.
Post Date: Monday, October 05, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to select best SQL to execute

by Rene Woody
Learn about the options that you can use to determine which SQL statements are executed to find the best run time.
Post Date: Monday, September 21, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to minimize the effect of caching on run time

by Rene Woody
Learn about the options that you can select to minimize the effect of caching on the accuracy of the run time comparsions.
Post Date: Monday, September 7, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to eliminate the effect of network traffic on the run time comparisons

by Rene Woody
Learn about the options that you can select for eliminating the effect of network traffic on the execution run times.
Post Date: Monday, August 24, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to automate the Batch Optimizer process

by Rene Woody
Learn how to automate each of the three steps in the Batch Optimizer.
Post Date: Monday, August 10, 2009   |   View Details
 

Understand how the Batch Optimizer works

by Rene Woody
Learn about the three steps that are performanced for you in the batch optimization process.
Post Date: Monday, July 27, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to generate SQL aternatives without Oracle hints

by Rene Woody
Learn how to set the options so that no Oracle hints are used in the SQL alternatives.
Post Date: Monday, July 13, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to shorten the time it takes to optimization a SQL statement

by Rene Woody
Learns some ways to shorten the amount of time it takes to optimize a SQL statement.
Post Date: Monday, June 29, 2009   |   View Details
 

The order the SQL alteratives are displayed

by Rene Woody
Understand the order in which the SQL alternatives generated by the optimization process are displayed.
Post Date: Monday, June 15, 2009   |   View Details
 

Understand why it is important to find the best "driving path"

by Rene Woody
Understand why it is important to find the best driving path when retrieving data.
Post Date: Monday, June 1, 2009   |   View Details
 

Understand how Oracle optimization hints are applied in Quest SQL Optimizer

by Rene Woody
Learn how the Oracle optimization hints are applied to the SQL statements to generate more execution plans.
Post Date: Monday, May 18, 2009   |   View Details
 

Select which table join syntax do you want to use

by Rene Woody
Learn how to generate SQL alternatives where the conditions for joining tables are specified in the WHERE clause or SQL alternatives using the Ansi-92 SQL standard which specifies tables joins with the INNER JOIN, CROSS JOIN, and OUTER JOIN with these joining conditions in the FROM clause.
Post Date: Monday, May 4, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to optimize a SQL statement using a VIEW

by Rene Woody
Understand your options for generating SQL alternatives when your original SQL statement uses a VIEW instead of a TABLE.
Post Date: Monday, April 20, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to generate more SQL alteratives

by Rene Woody
Learn how to generate more SQL alternatives during the optimization process.
Post Date: Monday, April 6, 2009   |   View Details
 

How to generate fewer SQL alternatives

by Rene Woody
Learn how to generate fewer SQL alternatives during the optimization process.
Post Date: Monday, March 23, 2009   |   View Details
 

Understand the optimization process used in Quest SQL Optimizer

by Rene Woody
Learn how the SQL optimization process in the Tuning Lab and the Batch Optimizer generates SQL alternatives.
Post Date: Monday, March 09, 2009   |   View Details