Re: DB_BLOCK_CHECKING and DB_BLOCK_CHECKSUM

Dennis,

Are you saying, that I have to take care of turning it "off", since in 9i the default value for DB_BLOCK_CHECKSUM is "true"? Is it that much of overhead? Then, why did Oracle change the default?

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:02 PM

> Beth - Are you asking because you are experiencing a corruption problem,
or
> because you're having a paranoid Monday? ;-) I believe the overhead is
> enough that you wouldn't turn them on "just because". But if you are
> experiencing occasional corruption, you could tolerate quite a bit of
> overhead.
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm soliciting opinions on whether or not its a good practice to enable
> DB_BLOCK_CHECKING and DB_BLOCK_CHECKSUM. How much overhead is associated?
>
> TIA,
>
> Beth
>
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