Re: Oracle 10046 tim, e and ela Values use Nanoseconds/1024 not Microseconds, on some Platforms

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From: K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:51:17 -0700
Message-ID: <3b0f44a10704021451x68d3293bm1585d1959e5c1423@mail.gmail.com>

Jared,

On 4/2/07, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > You're not the first to discover the joys of Oracle time - eg see Jonathan
> Lewis's http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/time_unit.html
> dated 15 Dec 2002.
> >
>
> Indeed. Also see
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/sleep.html
> Somone at Oracle believes that 1000 = 0x400.

It is same to the storage vendors who believe 1KB is 1000 bytes :)

-Gopal

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