RE: Re[2]: Re[2]:Upgrading Oracle

Just BUILD A COUNTEREXAMPLE!
put plenty of indexes in, etc... ;-)

Thanks,
Jeff

"Dumb Looks are Still Free..."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diana Duncan [SMTP:Diana_at_fileFRENZY.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:05 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Re[2]:Upgrading Oracle
>
> Rachel wrote
> "...a third party product that
> denormalizes tables because their "experts" told them that if you have
> more
> than 4 tables in a join performance suffers significantly."
>
> This is something I get from our chief architect on a regular basis, and
> he
> won't believe me when I say it all depends on the size of the tables, the
> indexes on the tables and the query criteria. He is dead set that the
> number of tables in a join determines the performance of the query. Does
> anyone know where I can find a concrete explanation that I can have him
> read
> to disabuse him of this notion?
>
> Thanks,
> Diana
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