Including analytics like stddev_pop? I would think that integer math with those would be brutal. Rich -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:57 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: floating point and Sun T2000 >>> >>>I'm testing a Sun T2000 Solaris 10 Oracle 10g and have read >>>that if floating point calculations are used then the box is >>>essentially a 1 cpu box. the database server does not do floating point calculations -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l