RE: Oracle urban legends and myths needed

I seem to be missing some of the replies etc to this so apologies for repeating anything anyone else has said.

1. A BCHR of x% means that you have a well tuned system (where x is usually > 95)
2. Minimise the number of extents for each object
3. Set PCTIncrease to a small value (typically 1%) to minimise fragmentation.
4. Index blocks never get reused.
5. Rebuild indexes frequently.
6. Separation of data and indexes improves performance
7. The most selective column of a concatenated index should be the leading Column
8. If its in print it must be true
9. If 'x' says so it must be true.
10. Avoid Full Table Scans, they are always bad.

Niall

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> Stephane Paquette
> Sent: 01 April 2003 15:54
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> Subject: Oracle urban legends and myths needed
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently writing an Oracle user guide for our
> developpers about how Oracle is implemented, SQL and PL/SQL
> good practices, tuning, rule base vs cost base (90 on 120
> databases are still rule base) ...
>
>
> I want to add an Oracle urban legends and myths section
> focussed on development. I'm missing inspiration as I only
> have the "use an index it'll go faster" one.
>
> I'm sure you have lots of them.
>
>
> TIA
>
> Stephane Paquette
> Administrateur de bases de donnees
> Database Administrator
> Standard Life
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