In article <875543262.18411_at_dejanews.com>, dgray_at_bdsinc.com writes
> for warehousing! - I'm going to oracle 8 soon any body know if oracle 8
>is
> any better.
>
Oracle 8 has greatly improved partioning over the old 7.3
partitioned views. We are designing a monster system around
it at present. No performance stats yet I'm afraid.
One thing to bear in mind is to keep the number of partitions
down to minimise parsing overheads. Dropping a small (initial)
table with 4000 partitions (and no data in any partition) took
over an hour. (with nothing else running on the box).
Aim at around a few hundred partitions max.
Steve
"The floggings will continue until morale improves."
Received on Tue Oct 07 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
