Table of Contents - Vol. 3 No. 1

Application Tuning, Part 1 By Roger Snowden Part 1 of this three-part series steps you through the application tuning process, showing you exactly what you should be tuning and why. The EPA Implements Oracle By Lawrence James How the EPA used Oracle's Procedural Gateway to move legacy mainframe applications to emerging client/server systems.	PL/SQL Coding Guidelines By Michael R. Ault Standards for PL/SQL coding that can help you write code that is easier to understand and maintain. Implementing DECODE for PL/SQL By Steven Feuerstein Steve reminds us all just how useful DECODE is and just how nice it would be to be able to use it in PL/SQL programs.

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