Re: Oracle 10046 tim, e and ela Values use Nanoseconds/1024 not Microseconds, on some Platforms

  • From: "K Gopalakrishnan" <kaygopal@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:51:17 -0700

Jared,


On 4/2/07, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You're not the first to discover the joys of Oracle time - eg see Jonathan
Lewis's   http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/time_unit.html
dated 15 Dec 2002.
>

Indeed.  Also see
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/sleep.html
Somone at Oracle believes that 1000 = 0x400.


It is same to the storage vendors who believe 1KB is 1000 bytes :)

-Gopal


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