Morning all, On 26/10/11 22:36, Herring Dave - dherri wrote: > But if you don't throw more hardware at it, you'll hurt the hardware > industry. :-) I think it's all a secret deal between software and hardware > COs. Write bad code so there's a need for more powerful hardware. Now with > all this powerful hardware, we can run more bad code. Norm's Law: Software efficiency halves every 18 months thus compensating for Moore's Law. :-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l