Re: Larry Ellison comments on Microsoft's benchmark

From: Blair Kenneth Adamache <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: 2000/06/29
Message-ID: <395BA35C.3674593D@ca.ibm.com>#1/1

Raw devices are supported by all the major databases. DB2 supports raw devices for user data and for logging.

Norris wrote:

> In comp.databases.sybase Anthony Mandic <amandic@_start.com.au> wrote:
> > Norris wrote:

> >> In oracle, in case of data/index corruption, you can use Export/Import to resolve the optimization
> >> and defragmentation.

> > Export/Import to resolve optimization and defragmentation. You've got to be
> > kidding me!

> >> Usually, you do it less frequent than DBCC because Oracle performs the
> >> database consistency check automatically for every update.

> > For every update? That's got to slow things way down!
>
> In oracle, if you want to speed up the I/O operations, you can use raw device rather than file system.
Received on Thu Jun 29 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT