I suspect, as with most 'rules of thumb', that Kevin's
does not scale well. 



|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Henry Poras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|| Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 4:42 PM
|| To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| Subject: RE: Veritas Quick I/0 and Oracle/ Asycnchronous I/O
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|| Let's see. What was that rule of thumb I heard from Kevin 
|| Loney? I think it
|| was that each index slows down DML by a factor of 3 (at 
|| least for batch jobs
|| where you have to worry about recursive SQL). So 23 indexes 
|| would run about
|| 70 times slower than no indexes. Do I sense a hardware 
|| throwing contest??
|| 
|| Henry
|| 
|| -----Original Message-----
|| Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 4:01 PM
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|| 
|| On Monday 11 June 2001 09:06, Rachel Carmichael wrote:
|| > OLTP system, main order table had 23 indexes on it. 
|| Because they wanted to
|| 
|| ?!?!?!
|| 
|| That's just nuts.
|| 
|| > be able to search by customer first name, customer last 
|| name, recipient
|| > first name, recipient last name .... and had foreign keys 
|| all over the
|| > place.
|| 
|| Sounds like Data Mart was a term they were unfamiliar with.
|| 
|| Jared
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