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Christopher J. Date is the world's best known relational advocate. His book An Introduction to Database Systems, currently in its 8th edition, is widely regarded as one of the fundamental texts on the subject. It has sold well over 700,000 copies, not counting translations, and it is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide. He is one of the inventors of our database industry. In this seminar, he shows you how to write SQL code that's logically correct; how to avoid various SQL traps and pitfalls; and, more generally, how to use SQL as if it were a true relational language. This seminar will benefit professionals using Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DB2 systems alike. Read more...

Oracle Performance for Developers is a one-day course for application developers that helps you create faster, more scalable Oracle applications. Read more...

Our 3-day lab-based Profiling course transforms normal database administrators, application architects, and application developers into real performance analysts who can find and fix performance problems you may not have even realized that you had. People who take this course routinely fix system performance problems that have plagued their systems for months or even years, improving user productivity and reducing IT spend. Read more...

Our 5-day lab-based SQL optimization course transforms application developers and database administrators into fearless SQL optimizers. Here, students learn to measure performance instead of guessing about it, using an efficient performance testing harness that the students get to take home. The course produces faster students writing faster SQL that will scale efficiently to handle your production workloads. Read more...