This article explores the internals of materialized views and demonstrates how to precompute complex aggregates—having Oracle dynamically rewrite SQL to reference precomputed aggregate information.

The solution is to use SQL views, materialized views, or create a new table that contains only the filtered data the user needs.

Twice in the past couple of months I’ve gotten tripped up by the same data issue when using LINQ to Entities in the .NET framework. I create a simple view in my database which performs some ...

The first form of the CREATE TABLE statement creates tables that automatically map SQL data types to those supported by the SAS System. Use this form when you want to create a new table with columns ...