RE: db block size

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:19:16 -0400
Message-ID: <DE8A21F8F1D0254EA4A9214D52AB2FEDAD5C55@exchsen0a1ma>

Lex,

I certainly did not say "close to useless"! Anyplace. Anywhere.

My first comment was in response to people using different block sizes to help gain sql efficiency - using 2k blocksize for reference or lookup tables. This, to me, is like trying to squeeze water from a desert. It can be done. But it is waste of time.

I agree that TTS is a great idea for warehouses. But, again, not much use for an OLTP database.

So there,

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

-----Original Message-----

From: Lex de Haan [mailto:lex.de.haan_at_naturaljoin.nl] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:11 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: db block size

Hi Tom,
please allow me to repeat what my beloved ex-colleague Pete Sharman explained before, in his well-known concise and subtle style: Oracle has always positioned this feature to enhance transportable tablespaces (TTS) -- which is certainly not "on the edge" functionality, I would say; I think TTS is both pretty powerful and pretty useful.

so it is kind of unfair to label it as close to useless as a conclusion of this email thread?

Kind regards,
Lex.

visit my website at http://www.naturaljoin.nl

-----Original Message-----

This sounds like one of those "efficiencies on the edges" discussion. Everybody makes great points. But the real end result might be a gain in efficiency by about a decimal of a percent.

Another great Oracle innovation that *may be* used in about 1% of the installations. My gut feeling is that Oracle is adding functionality that not many of us would use.

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