Hi Henry, comments inline. On 3/14/06, Henry Poras <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So by default EMC will sell you a product with no way to monitor it? Well, > I guess that makes sense. > Common practice. Oracle's CBO is not perfect, and no optimizer will ever be perfect. Oracle will gladly sell you tools ($$$) to help out with the areas where CBO is confused. We got EMC because we know how smoothly it works. Cache never fills, i/o > distributes automatically. So if there is a problem, it's got to be a > database issue. > Sarcasm? On this list? -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist