RE: db block size

Lex,

I certainly did not say "close to useless"!  Anyplace.  Anywhere.

My first comment was in response to people using different block sizes to
help gain sql efficiency - using 2k blocksize for reference or lookup
tables.  This, to me, is like trying to squeeze water from a desert.  It can
be done.  But it is waste of time.

I agree that TTS is a great idea for warehouses.  But, again, not much use
for an OLTP database.

So there,

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-----Original Message-----
From: Lex de Haan [mailto:lex.de.haan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:11 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: db block size


Hi Tom,
please allow me to repeat what my beloved ex-colleague Pete Sharman
explained before, in his well-known concise and subtle style: Oracle has
always positioned this feature to enhance transportable tablespaces (TTS) --
which is certainly not "on the edge" functionality, I would say; I think TTS
is both pretty powerful and pretty useful.

so it is kind of unfair to label it as close to useless as a conclusion of
this email thread?

Kind regards,
Lex.

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-----Original Message-----

This sounds like one of those "efficiencies on the edges" discussion.
Everybody makes great points.  But the real end result might be a gain in
efficiency by about a decimal of a percent.

Another great Oracle innovation that *may be* used in about 1% of the
installations.  My gut feeling is that Oracle is adding functionality that
not many of us would use.


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