On 07/19/2004 09:39:03 AM, "Khedr, Waleed" wrote: > Data warehouses usually require using PQO, and this uses direct reads > that will benefit nothing of big buffer cache. They will also not benefit much from MTS, so allocating large chunks of memory for large pool is also pointless. Hashe and sort are size will need to be exploded, typically to values like 64M/process. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------