Re: OT: External table novelties

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:40:19 -0700

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:39, Fuad Arshad wrote:
> external tables  to read archive data.
> users normally always want the data  even though they'll never  actually use 
> it .
> We've moved some data to flat files and given them views to access the data.
> works like a charm.
> Saved a lot of database apace and maintainence.


Those files could be hosted anywhere and mounted NFS.

Pretty good idea, thanks.

Jared


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