This gives a one line description of the next few items I hope to load on to the web site. The order in which the items are listed is not significant, so if any of them are of particlar interest to you, then let me know on jonathan@jlcomp.demon.co.uk and I will give some priority to requested items.
| Title | Content | Last update |
| Analytic Functions | A great new feature of 8.1 | to come |
| Object 80 | Storage overheads for Objects in 8.0 | to come |
| Object 81 | Storage overheads for Objects in 8.1 | to come |
| Temp Arrays | Using arrays as transient result tables in 8.0 | to come |
| DefCon 1 | Deferred Constraints in 8.0 | to come |
| Scale down | A (UNIX) tool for scaling DDL down to development d/b size | to come |
| Userenv | Undocumented (or thinly documented) features | to come |
| 7 or 8 ? | Bits of Oracle 8 that have migrated backwards to Oracle 7 | to come |
| O Trace | Using Oracle*Trace (instead of SQL*trace, et. al.) | to come |
| NT Backup | A simple backup method for small NT databases | to come |
| Events | A few of the useful event numbers (10046 et. al.) | to come |
| Mutating Tables | An example of working around the problem | to come |
| Execution Plans | A tutorial in interpreting the output of Explain Plan | to come |
| OPS Problems | A note on some side-effects of using Oracle Parallel Server | to come |
| Password | Password aging and validation in Oracle 8 | to come |
| PQ Pain | Some nasty surprises from the Parallel Query Option | to come |
| Discrete Txs | Using discrete transactions in Oracle 7 | to come |
| The X$ files | The truth is out there somewhere. | to come |
| utl_file | How to read and write files with the UTL_FILE package | to come |
| The Alert Log | A pair of UNIX scripts for a quick check on the Alert log | to come |
| varchar2s | Stop spooling to file - generate SQL the elegant and tidy way | to come |
| Star Tansforms | Oracle 8 stars vs. Oracle 7 stars | to come |