Re: What is a good blocksize to use.

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:16:04 +0100, Paul Brewer said (and I quote):

> Forget about head movement, disk latency and all that physics.
> Get the DESIGN right, and TUNE THE BLOODY SQL THAT THE APPLICATION SUBMITS.
> Then come back to the database and resume fiddling around with the
> parameters.
>
> Sorry, not a rant at you: I've had another bad day at the office with a
> crappily designed application, which is never going to perform well in the
> real world,
> despite all the hardware which will doubtless be thrown at the problem in
> due course.

Bingo.

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Nuno Souto
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