There's also the physics of the disk to consider... Hundreds upon hundreds of disks, even when enclosed within SAN's adds up a lot of space/power/cooling/etc in your computer facility! --- Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Even with the insertion of the data once, we're already past the throughput > capacity of most storage arrays, never mind additional like undo and redo, > so direct-path and nologging would be key. And you really can't have > direct-path without using EXCHANGE PARTITION. Set the tablespaces to READ > ONLY as soon as possible after load and get 'em backed up. > ===== Connor McDonald Co-author: "Mastering Oracle PL/SQL - Practical Solutions" ISBN: 1590592174 web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk web: http://www.oaktable.net email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx Coming Soon! "Oracle Insight - Tales of the OakTable" "GIVE a man a fish and he will eat for a day. But TEACH him how to fish, and...he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day" ------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/