On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 01:47, Niall Litchfield wrote: > stored code of for example packages contains data. The only blocks to > my mind that do not contain data are empty blocks. Unless the reading > of empty blocks is also counted (which it might be I'm ignorant on > this) then I don't like the distinction in this case. I doubt you're ignorant of it Niall. ;) FTS on a table with all rows deleted certainly counts as IO. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------