RE: Fav. Urban Legend...take two

From: Deshpande, Kirti <kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:56:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00429BF5.20020314105640@fatcity.com>

#3 One has to have 'delete any table' privilege to truncate someone else's tables.

#2 Oracle does not write to the data file when the tablespace is in backup mode.

And...

#1 High Cache Hit Ratios (in the upper 90s) are always good.

• Kirti

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Ok... one of my favorite Urban Legends is this one:

The book is always right. In other words, if it's written down in a book we bought off of Amazon, it must be so.

So, I'd like to ask, without anyone taking potshots at specific authors, what is the dumbest, silliest, or most technically incorrect thing you have ever seen in an Oracle book?

RF

Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
Oracle DBA Technical Lead
CSX Midtier Database Administration

The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

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