Re: Oracle urban legends and myths needed

Do a search for "myth" on asktom.oracle.com:

e,g.:
Whenever possible, issue frequent COMMIT statements in all your programs. By issuing frequent COMMIT statements, the performance of the program is enhanced and its resource requirements are minimized as COMMIT frees up the following resources ...

explicit cursors are faster than implicit cursers.

count(1) is faster than count(*) (or any variation/combination thereof).

At 06:53 AM 4/1/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm currently writing an Oracle user guide for our developpers about how
>Oracle is implemented, SQL and PL/SQL good practices, tuning, rule base vs
>cost base (90 on 120 databases are still rule base) ...
>
>
>I want to add an Oracle urban legends and myths section focussed on
>development.
>I'm missing inspiration as I only have the "use an index it'll go faster"
>one.
>
>I'm sure you have lots of them.

Wolfgang Breitling
Centrex Consulting Corporation
http://www.centrexcc.com

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