This one? Title: Why are Oracle's Read Events Named Backwards? Author: Jeff Holt http://www.hotsos.com/e-library/abstract.php?id=16 Gints Plivna http://www.gplivna.eu 2009/7/28 Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>: > There was a paper on the web somewhere a few years ago that says what OS C > call oracle makes with a db file scattered read and db file sequential read? > I don't think I saw this on metalink. I think it is one of the short ones > that Jeff Holt wrote , but I can't find it. > > Its not this one. > http://www.geocities.com/ckempster/wpapers/oracle/predictingMultiblockread.pdf > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l