I recently have had the opportunity to work on performance tuning on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Recently I have been doing more with performance tuning on Oracle. The following is something that I have discovered to be very similar between Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, but the names are different between the two systems. So this brings me back to …

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MySQL is to Oracle as Linux is to Windows. Limiting Result Sets Oracle supports ROWNUM to limit the result Sets SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE rowmun < 10 MySql uses the LIMIT clause. SELECT * FROM tablename LIMIT 10 Bind Variables The latest versions of MySql supports bind variables, and Oracle has supported bind variables for a very long time. …

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