Databases

Connecting to Oracle 12g with the Instant Client and Excel VBA

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One rather old application I’ve supported for several years loads data from Excel spreadsheets into a reporting database. These Excel spreadsheets have always been manually updated by several users. However, because the data that the users are entering into these spreadsheets are first being entered into another separate application database, these users have been doing … Read more

Some Good Resources on Database Performance Optimization and Tuning

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Database performance optimization is a skill that is very important for both the database administrator and the database developer. I decided to put together a few links here that may be useful in disseminating information about database tuning and query optimization on various database systems, both relational and non-relational. I’ll be updating this from time … Read more