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Webinar | Database Monitoring: The ROI of Build vs. Buy

There are many things to consider when deciding whether to invest in a database monitoring tool or whether to use a homegrown solution. However, the business frequently wants to know one thing and one thing only: what’s the return on this investment (ROI)? In this webinar, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Grant Fritchey, is joined by our expert panel to share the pros and cons to building a monitoring system versus purchasing one.

2022-12-05

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Oracle optimizer Or Expansion Transformations

The previous installment of this series examined aggregate subquery removal and subquery coalescing, describing the latter as similar in some ways to an inverse for “Or Expansion” and “Join Factorization”. In this instalment, it’s time to take a closer look at Or Expansion and we’ll move on to Join Factorization in the next instalment.

2022-11-30

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BIT_COUNT() V

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