by Markus Winand.

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Myth Directory

In an attempt to thin out the dark woods of database performance myths, I list and explain some of the most common myth and misbeliefs here.

Contents

  1. Indexes Can Degenerate

  2. Most Selective First

  3. Oracle Cannot Index NULL

  4. Dynamic SQL is Slow

  5. Select * is Bad

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