Oracle Career Help

Hi,
I am new to Oracle though I am known to Oracle DBMS, SQL, PL/SQL, Fusion, SOA, ADF and so many terms, but I am unable to choose which technology I should focus on.
I am university student and want to develop my final project in Oracle. I need help from you buddies to help me choose the technology which will help me secure and find job in future. Just tell me popular technologies and available. Some of my friends told me to work on Oracle Form and Reports 10g, but I think that is an old technology.
Please help me choosing the technology.
Regards
Sarfraz

[email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I am new to Oracle though I am known to Oracle DBMS, SQL, PL/SQL, Fusion, SOA, ADF and so many terms, but I am unable to choose which technology I should focus on.
I am university student and want to develop my final project in Oracle. I need help from you buddies to help me choose the technology which will help me secure and find job in future. Just tell me popular technologies and available. Some of my friends told me to work on Oracle Form and Reports 10g, but I think that is an old technology.
Please help me choosing the technology.
Regards
Sarfraz"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
-- Henry David Thoreau.
Why did I start my reply with that quote? Because I think you are focusing on the wrong thing. You should use your university time to explore several areas, and not all of them technology. Find out what you enjoy working with - application design? Database management and optimization? Networking? Security? How about geology? Chemistry? Literature? History? Expose yourself to several things, find what you truly enjoy and get very good at it. (If you really enjoy it, you will get very good at it). Employment will follow, and will be much more enjoyable than if you just pick "a technology" because you think it will provide the best employment. Odds are you'll be doing something else within 10 years anyway ( "Life Happens").

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,          pact.activity_dateI sent a request off to my IT department (specifically asking for the explain plan and tkprof, as described in the [main post on this topic|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=501834] ), and they replied with a screen shot of the 'explain plan' the tool they use (Toad) provides.
!http://temp-sample.webs.com/explain_plan.jpg!
I don't know if anyone can help me based off this, since I know it's not really what the main post says to provide, but it's all I was given.
My IT department also made a few changes to my original query (see below) and told me it got rid of one of the full scans of the PACT table, but they aren't sure why it helped, and I have to say I'm suspect of any fixes where it's not understood why it helped.
SELECT     oord.part_nbr
,     sopn.ord_nbr
,     sopn.sub_ord_nbr
,     sopn.major_seq_nbr
,     sopn.wctr_id
,     sopn.oper_desc
,     SUM(pact.act_dlrs_earned+pact.act_brdn_dls_earned+pact.tool_dlrs_earned+pact.act_fix_brdn_dls_ea)
,     pact.activity_date
FROM     PACT pact
,     SOPN sopn
,     OORD oord
WHERE     sopn.ord_nbr          = pact.order_nbr     AND
     sopn.major_seq_nbr     = pact.maj_seq_nbr     AND
     pact.sub_order_nbr     = sopn.sub_ord_nbr     AND
     oord.ord_nbr           = sopn.ord_nbr          AND
     oord.sub_ord_nbr     = sopn.sub_ord_nbr     AND
     (pact.activity_date >= ?)               AND
     'N'               = sopn.rework_ind     AND
     pact.order_nbr          = oord.ord_nbr          AND
     oord.sub_ord_nbr = pact.sub_order_nbr          AND
     (oord.part_nbr, pact.maj_seq_nbr, sopn.wctr_id) NOT IN
          SELECT /*+ INDEX_JOIN(ROUT) */     rout.doc_nbr
          ,                    rout.major_seq_nbr
          ,                    rout.wctr_id
          FROM     ROUT rout
          WHERE     rout.begn_eff_dt     <= SYSDATE     AND
               rout.end_eff_dt      > SYSDATE     AND
               'N' = rout.po_rework_ind
GROUP BY     oord.part_nbr
,          sopn.ord_nbr
,          sopn.sub_ord_nbr
,          sopn.major_seq_nbr
,          sopn.wctr_id
,          sopn.oper_desc
,          pact.activity_dateAny help on this would be appreciated... when I run this (right now) for 2-3 months of data, it takes a minimum of 3 hours to complete, and I'll eventually need to run this for up to a year's worth of data.

Hi,
Well, let's see.
You get 156 rows returned using IN and 121 rows using exists.
You need identify the 'missing records' and conclude if that's correct or not, I'm not able to do that from remote, without knowing your data or system.
It would be helpful if we could see cost and cardinalities, you (or your IT dept.) can get them easily be running the queries from your SQL*Plus prompt.
Type
SET AUTOTRACE TRACEONLYbefore running the queries.
That gives you the explain plan and additional statistics (sorts in memory and sorts to disk).
Since you use a group by, and you're on 8i can you also post results of these queries:
select banner from v$version;
select name, value, isdefault from v$parameter where name like '%area%';Finally, does below query give you a different plan?
select oord.part_nbr
,      oord.ord_nbr
,      oord.sub_ord_nbr
,      pact.major_seq_nbr
,      sopn.wctr_id
,      sopn.oper_desc
,      sum(pact.act_dlrs_earned + pact.act_brdn_dls_earned + pact.tool_dlrs_earned + pact.act_fix_brdn_dls_ea)
,      pact.activity_date
from   oord oord
,      pact pact
,      sopn sopn
where oord.ord_nbr       = pact.order_nbr
and    oord.sub_ord_nbr   = pact.sub_order_nbr
and    oord.ord_nbr       = sopn.ord_nbr
and    oord.sub_ord_nbr   = sopn.sub_ord_nbr
and    sopn.major_seq_nbr = pact.maj_seq_nbr
and    (pact.activity_date >= ?)
and    'N' = sopn.rework_ind
and    (oord.part_nbr, pact.maj_seq_nbr, sopn.wctr_id) not in ( select rout.doc_nbr
                                                                ,      rout.major_seq_nbr
                                                                ,      rout.wctr_id
                                                                from   rout rout
                                                                where rout.begn_eff_dt <= sysdate
                                                                and    rout.end_eff_dt > sysdate
                                                                and    'N' = rout.po_rework_ind)
group by oord.part_nbr
,         oord.ord_nbr
,         oord.sub_ord_nbr
,         pact.major_seq_nbr
,         sopn.wctr_id
,         sopn.oper_desc
,         pact.activity_date

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