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			<title><![CDATA[ Working with long columns ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=430</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Various techniques for querying and manipulating long columns. July 2010 (updated March 2012) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Profiling trace files with preprocessor external tables in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=516</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Generate and read TKProf and OraSRP reports in a single SQL*Plus window (or other IDE of choice) using preprocessor external tables. November 2011 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Runstats utility ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/runstats.zip?p=2.01</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A variation on Tom Kyte's invaluable RUNSTATS utility that compares the resource consumption of two alternative units of work. Designed to work under constrained developer environments and builds on the original with enhancements such as "pause and resume" functionality, time model statistics and the option to report on specific statistics. <b>***Update***</b> Now available in two formats: 1) as a PL/SQL package and 2) as a free-standing SQL*Plus script (i.e. no installation/database objects needed). January 2007 (updated October 2011) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Mystats utility ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/mystats.zip?p=2.01</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A variation on Jonathan Lewis's SNAP_MY_STATS package to report the resource consumption of a unit of work between two snapshots. Designed to work under constrained developer environments, this version has enhancements such as time model statistics and the option to report on specific statistics. <b>***Update***</b> Now available in two formats: 1) as a PL/SQL package and 2) as a free-standing SQL*Plus script (i.e. no installation/database objects needed). June 2007 (updated October 2011) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Xplan utility ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/xplan.zip?p=1.2</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A utility to add parent ID and execution order information to plans reported by DBMS_XPLAN. XPlan includes DISPLAY, DISPLAY_CURSOR and DISPLAY_AWR functionality for use in exactly the same way as the DBMS_XPLAN equivalents. Supports versions from 10g onwards. <b>***Update***</b> Now available in two formats: 1) as a PL/SQL package and 2) as a collection of three free-standing SQL*Plus scripts (i.e. no installation/database objects needed). January 2009 (updated October 2011) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Moats ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/moats.zip?p=1.06</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The (M)other (O)f (A)ll (T)uning (S)cripts. A tuning and diagnostics utility for SQL*Plus co-developed with <a href="http://tech.e2sn.com">Tanel Poder</a>. Includes active session sampling and a TOP-style utility for displaying instance activity at regular refresh intervals. Supports versions from 10g Release 2 onwards. September 2010 (updated March 2011) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dictionary long application ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/dla.zip</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Two versions of an application to encapsulate the data dictionary views that have LONG columns. LONGs are converted to CLOBs in pipelined functions, enabling us to search, copy and manipulate these columns with string functions. A static version supports 9.2 and 10.1 and a dynamic ANYDATASET version supports 10.2 onwards. August 2007 (updated July 2010) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dynamic sql enhancements in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=505</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle completes its dynamic SQL implementation for PL/SQL. February 2008 (updated June 2010) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Listagg function in 11g release 2 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=515</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A new built-in function for string aggregation. June 2010 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pl/sql function result cache in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=504</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle provides a cross-session cache for user-defined PL/SQL function results. January 2008 (updated June 2010) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Improving performance with pipelined table functions ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=429</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Using pipelined functions as a performance tuning tool. January 2010 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Collect enhancements in 11g release 2 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=514</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Aggregate unique and ordered collection elements with the COLLECT function in 11g. November 2009 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Collection sorter utility ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/csort.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A package of two functions to sort collections, including support for descending and distinct sorts. Works with versions from 9i Release 2 onwards but can be easily edited to support 8i. November 2009 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Collection cardinality utility ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/ccard.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A utility to provide the CBO with the correct cardinality of small collections used in TABLE() queries (such as variable in-lists). This helps to achieve better execution plans without having to use the undocumented CARDINALITY hint. Supports versions from 10g onwards. November 2009 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sorting collections ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=428</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Various techniques for sorting collections. November 2009 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Listing files with the external table preprocessor in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=513</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Using the 11g external table preprocessor to get directory listings in SQL. October 2009 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ External table enhancements in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=512</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Encryption, compression and preprocessing for external tables in Oracle 11g. September 2009 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pl/sql functions and cbo costing  ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=426</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Associating statistics with PL/SQL functions for greater CBO accuracy. June 2009 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Avoiding pls-00436 with forall ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=410</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Workarounds to the FORALL PLS-00436 implementation restriction. July 2005 (updated June 2009) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Setting cardinality for pipelined and table functions ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=427</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Various methods for setting accurate cardinality statistics for table/pipelined functions. June 2009 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Returning with insert..select ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=413</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=413</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ A workaround to the unsupported INSERT..SELECT..RETURNING construct. August 2005 (updated May 2009) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dynamic logging with global application context  ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=424</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=424</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Controlling logging output across sessions using global application context. September 2007 (updated April 2009) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Virtual columns in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=510</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=510</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Store expressions as virtual columns in Oracle 11g. October 2008 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Binding in-lists in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=301</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Alternative IN-list binding in 10g using the new MEMBER OF collection condition. June 2004 (updated September 2008) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Partition-wise dependencies in 10g release 2 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=331</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=331</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Modify partitions without invalidating dependant objects. October 2007 (updated August 2008) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The collect function in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=306</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=306</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Using the new 10g COLLECT group function, including string aggregation. June 2004 (updated July 2008) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Regular expression enhancements in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=508</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle 11g adds a new REGEXP_COUNT function and extends some of the existing functions. May 2008 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pl/sql counter ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/counter.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A simple package to start and maintain a session-based counter. Useful for debugging and instrumentation. May 2008 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pipelined function issues ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=423</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=423</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ A few "gotchas" to be aware of when using pipelined functions. September 2007 (updated May 2008) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pl/sql enhancements in oracle 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=507</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 19:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Various minor language and operability enhancements for PL/SQL in 11g. May 2008 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pivot and unpivot queries in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=506</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=506</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Turn rows into columns and vice versa with new extensions to the SELECT statement. April 2008 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pl/sql optimisation in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=314</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=314</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle 10g's compiler optimisation for faster PL/SQL, with a new section on optimisation bugs. November 2004 (updated March 2008) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tuning pl/sql file i/o  ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=425</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Various techniques for unloading data to flat-file faster. February 2008 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Query result cache in oracle 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=503</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=503</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle adds a new cache for storing the results of queries. December 2007 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Subprogram inlining in 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=502</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=502</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle extends the scope of its PL/SQL compiler optimisation. November 2007 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pls-00436 removed in oracle 11g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=501</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>11g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle relaxes the long-standing FORALL implementation restriction in 11g. November 2007 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sql plan enhancements in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=316</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ New plan features in 10g make SQL performance investigations much more simple. December 2004 (updated November 2007) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Emulating string-to-table functionality using sql ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=412</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=412</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Turning delimited strings into multiple records without PL/SQL. July 2005 (updated August 2007) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Method 4 dynamic sql in pl/sql ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=422</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=422</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Using ANYDATASET and pipelined functions to achieve native Method 4 Dynamic SQL. August 2007 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Flexible pipelined functions ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=420</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Encapsulating bulk pl/sql exceptions  ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Overcoming the limitations of set row  ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=418</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Techniques to avoid superfluous updates with SET ROW. June 2007 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ External tables in oracle 9i ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=204</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>9i Articles</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Subquery factoring in oracle 9i ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=212</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>9i Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A new way of expressing subqueries in 9i.  December 2005 (updated June 2007) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ansi joins in oracle 9i ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=213</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>9i Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle adds ANSI-compliant joins to SQL in 9i.  January 2003 (updated June 2007) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Type enhancements in oracle 9i ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=219</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>9i Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Constructor functions, type evolution and substitution in 9i.  December 2005 (updated June 2007) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pipelined functions in oracle 9i ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=207</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 19:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>9i Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Functions can now stream data as virtual tables.  May 2002 (updated May 2007) ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Replacef ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/replacef.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A function to simplify string building and debugging by replacing multiple placeholders from a collection of inputs. January 2007 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Showplan utility ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/showplan.zip</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Simple SQL*Plus utilities to output the real execution plans used by running or cached SQL statements. Available for 9i Release 2 and 10g. October 2006 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Is_number ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/is_number.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Two common, simple and effective IS_NUMBER functions for SQL and PL/SQL. October 2006 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Loading xml files with xml db ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=416</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A tutorial on loading XML files into relational tables. March 2006 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dml error logging performance in 10g release 2 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=330</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Performance characteristics of DML error logging. August 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Autotrace enhancement in 10g release 2 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=326</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Autotrace now uses DBMS_XPLAN to output its explain plans. August 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dml error logging in oracle 10g release 2 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=329</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A new error logging mechanism for bulk DML statements. August 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Flashback version query in oracle 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=320</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2005 08:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ We can now view the evolution of our data with flashback version query.  August 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Enhancements to dbms_output in 10g release 2 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=327</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle finally "fixes" DBMS_OUTPUT. August 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Flashback restore points in oracle 10g release 2 ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=328</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Restore points enable us to capture a point in time for flashback operations. August 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Array-based advanced queuing in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=319</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2005 00:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle 10g enables us to enqueue and dequeue in bulk. July 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Introduction to advanced queuing  ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=411</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A high-level tutorial on Oracle's Advanced Queuing. July 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pl/sql timer ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/timer.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A simple package to output the elapsed time between two points. Supports versions from 8i onwards. July 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Unloading data using external tables in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=325</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 18:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ External tables can write as well as read in 10g. May 2005 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dual optimisation in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=315</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The dual table gets a performance makeover. November 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sql tuning advisor in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=317</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle now offers SQL tuning recommendations. November 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Row-generation without i/o ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=408</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Miscellaneous Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Methods for generating dummy data without incurring I/O costs. November 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Flashback table in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=313</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=313</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle extends flashback technology to restore dropped tables. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Measuring cpu time in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=307</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ An addition to DBMS_UTILITY now enables us to measure CPU time easily. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Aggregating data with the returning clause ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=305</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ In 10g, data returned by the RETURNING clause can be aggregated. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Collection extensions in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=303</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A brief overview of the new collection operators, functions and conditions in 10g. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Regular expressions in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=302</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle finally provides support for regular expressions. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tracking exceptions in oracle 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=318</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=318</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ Exceptions can now be traced back to their source in 10g. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Exception enhancements in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=304</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=304</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[ A few small enhancements to exception handling/error messages. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Merge enhancements in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=310</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Enhancements to the MERGE statement in 10g provide much greater flexibility. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Native dynamic sql optimisation in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=309</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2004 08:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Native dynamic SQL gets an optimisation to match DBMS_SQL for efficiency. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Forall enhancements in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=308</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2004 19:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ An overview of enhancements to FORALL bulk-binding. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Quoting string literals in 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=311</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2004 19:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle 10g provides a quoting mechanism for strings that include single-quotes. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Partition outer join in oracle 10g ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=312</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>10g Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A new mechanism to populate the gaps in sparse data. June 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Data dump utility ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/data_dump.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Merge counter ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/merge_counter.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>Utilities</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A package to capture and report separate INSERT and UPDATE rowcounts from a MERGE statement. February 2004 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ User-defined aggregate functions in oracle 9i ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=215</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>9i Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ We can create our own aggregate functions in 9i and use them like built-ins.  September 2003 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Introduction to bulk pl/sql enhancements in 9i ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=201</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
			<category>9i Articles</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Oracle extends its array processing capabilities in 9i.  September 2003 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Call stack parser ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/content/utilities/stk.sql</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A small package of functions for parsing the PL/SQL call stack. Includes an implementation of "WHOAMI" and "CALLER". September 2003 ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Decomposing sql%rowcount for merge ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.oracle-developer.net/display.php?id=220</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Adrian Billington</dc:creator>
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