RE: Why isn't Oracle using my index ? <humour>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Lewis [mailto:jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 9:10 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Why isn't Oracle using my index ? <humour>
>
>
>
> Just realized that I made a mistake in one
> of my tests, and had also overlooked a possible
> 'de-tuning' option.
>
> Current calculation:
> I am confident I could de-tune an Oracle database
> so that it chose a tablescan over a single row
> access by (enabled, validated) primary key
> when the heap table held 740,000,000 rows, and
> both table and index had had statistics generated
> through: analyze ... compute.

So can I: Migrate to MS SQL Server and throw 300 users at it...

Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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