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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Title Page; Copyrigt Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewers; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Do Not Use; Row-by-Row Processing; Nested Row-by-Row Processing; Lookup Queries; Excessive Access to DUAL; Arithmetics with Date; Access to Sequences; Populating Master-Detail Rows; Excessive Function Calls; Unnecessary Function Execution; Costly Function Calls; Database Link Calls; Excessive Use of Triggers; Excessive Commits; Excessive Parsing; Summary; CHAPTER 2 Dynamic SQL: Handling the Unknown; The Hero; Native Dynamic SQL; Dynamic Cursors…”