Excellent advice. As an add-on, remember to do the information life cycle planning bit. Purging gobs of data from clusters is something to consider. Depending on the size of the cluster compared to your resources, copying what you want to keep may not be practical for a given archive and purge cycle, and you have to consider whether to license partitioning, because deletes from a cluster are no picnic for what the database engine has to do. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Rahn Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:28 PM To: ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: clustered tables question 10g My advice would be this: get in the lab, make two versions of your tables (clustered and not) and compare them to each other in a workload simulation test. In almost all cases there are pros and cons to design decisions but I find it extremely difficult to think of everything even when I think know it inside and out. I refer to this as evidence-based design; where you let the performance data decide what design is best, not something else. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael McMullen <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm investigating whether it is appropriate to organize some of the tables into clusters, -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l