----- Original Message ----- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> > consistent as in Australian test cricket or consistent as in > Bangladesh test cricket is left as an exercise for the reader. I'd compare it to "Portuguese cricket", given my background. :) But "consistently bad" is more the expression I'd use. > "in the eighties we developed our own products that were late, over > budget and performed terribly. Now we buy off the shelf packages that > are available immediately, over budget and perform terribly, so that > is an improvement really" LOL! Good old Dave is an eternal optimist! I remember his saying: "RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Now, remind me again: *why* are you storing your data in cheap disks?" Cheers Nuno Souto nsouto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l