Re: Past posts, Metalink, partitioning

From: paquette stephane <stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:36:51 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <10520.107789@fatcity.com>

I do not know
Oracle's goal is too have almost all support via Metalink and very few phone calls.
Partitionning was designed for DSS systems more than OLTP systems
- "Jain, Akshay" <Akshay.Jain_at_cit.com> a écrit : > Three questions folks:
  >
  > 1. I am about to ask a question probably asked
  > before. Is there a web page
  > like there
  > was before for all past posts?
  >
  > 2. Does metalink now suck or what? e.g. search for
  > "OFA architecture".
  >
  > 3. The biggy: What specifically is the usage of
  > partitioning? I believe
  > it is an excellent technique for
  > managing OLTP environments. Concurrent access to
  > large tables get
  > segragated to
  > different physical partitions. Backup is eased by
  > taking individual
  > partitions offline for
  > backup. Queries can go at different disks for full
  > scans by partition.
  > But in an environment where I am creating an OLAP
  > sub-data-warehouse, read-only,
  > one CPU host, can I go ahead and ignore
  > partitioning?
  >
  > Thank you knowledgeable ones.
  >
  > Akshay Jain
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Stephane Paquette
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Do You Yahoo!? Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 03:36:51 CDT