Not to expand on the myth (and not exactly focus on Oracle) but didn't there used to be a lot of effort made to reduce seek time (the little read/write head zinging back and forth unnecessarily) by distributing files (right or wrong)? Striping/mirroring/SAN technology also blasted this myth, right? Kip Bryant |> If they are both accesed at the same time, it will improve performance |or |> not, |> I don't understand exactly what is this myth about? |From the perspective of a single query, the indexes are not accessed at |the same time |as the data. Take a look at a trace file to verify it if you like. |From the perspective of many queries executing simultaneously, it still |doesn't really |matter. You have several queries access both data and indexes. There can |be |contention for either one. |What matters is the performance of your system under load. If you have 10 |disks in |a RAID 0 with all indexes and data residing on it and the performance is |somewhat |lackluster, splitting those disks into two 5 disk RAID 0 drives and |physically separating |the indexes and data will not improve performance. |It would be very likely though that it would decrease performance, |particularly on |full table scans and fast full index scans. |Jared |---------------------------------------------------------------- |Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com |---------------------------------------------------------------- |To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. |-- |Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ |FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html |----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------