I made a joke last year that "iAS has everything in it, I wonder what Oracle will think of next, voice recognition???"
Well now I have to eat my words... Maybe Oracle can put StarOffice inside iAS, why not... Now that IBM mentioned self-healing, I suppose Oracle will embed the Oracle Expert in the database engine or something. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 3:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Oracle Data Compression I remember an instructor I had back in v6 days, who used to joke about, version 10 is the database that will totally self-sustaining, no DBA needed. Was he a visionary, bwaahahahahah, ok thats a joke ;) joe Carle, William T (Bill), ALCAS wrote: >Howdy, > > I attended a seminar on Oracle data compression in version 9.2 this morning. There are no web-based handouts to look at. However, there are a few items on it that may be of interest: > >Data compression is based on duplicate fields >Compression is only done on direct operations ( for example, an ordinary insert is not compressed) >Indexed queries would not be any faster against compressed data (The index is not compressed, just the data.) >Updates are 10-20% slower. >Deletes are 10% faster. >Full table scans are much faster. > >Bottom line is that this would mainly be used for a data warehousing application with lots of full table scans. It wouldn't be used for anything with lots of updating or online queries. > >Also, we were told that 9.2 is the terminal release of 9i. The next version will be 10i. > > >Bill Carle >AT&T >Database Administrator >816-995-3922 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Joe Testa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Boivin, Patrice J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
