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August 17, 2020 Uncategorized

Faster DISTINCT operations in 19c

If I gave you a telephone book and asked you to tell me how many distinct street names are present

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March 4, 2020 Uncategorized

Nulls are not stored in indexes … most of the time

This question got posed on Twitter today I answered briefly on Twitter, but I thought I should give it some

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November 7, 2018 Uncategorized

Add ORDER BY to make ANY query faster

Yes it’s SCBT day here in Perth! SCBT = Silly Click Bait Title This post is just a cautionary tale

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February 28, 2018 Uncategorized

ROWNUM and ORDER BY

Just a quick revisit on an old topic so I could link to this post in a Stack Overflow discussion.

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February 16, 2016 Uncategorized

Never rely on an assumed order

We’ve (hopefully) all had it drummed into us enough times – you cannot assume the order of results from queries

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January 19, 2016 Uncategorized

A little known ORDER BY extension

Within a CONNECT BY statement, you can order siblings, that is, under a particular branch of the hierarchy, the child

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August 15, 2015 Uncategorized

Mr DISTINCT might not be your friend

Whenever you have the need to use the DISTINCT keyword, its worth just pausing for a second, and making sure

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