Tom K on his website asktom.oracle.com gives several 'cunning' methods
for genning data ( as does JL in his book - when's the V9 ed out anyway ;)
? )
"Toni Schlichting" <toni_at_schlichting.net> wrote in message
news:3DADD0D6.6070807_at_schlichting.net...
> Hi all,
>
> since a few weeks I am (at least) trying to give lessons on databases
> and SQL and gradually I get the feeling that the one or the other
> participants gets an idea about databases.
>
> In a few weeks I should be at the point to try different aproaches when
> writing DML's and I want to let the participants experience the
> difference between an expensive statement and a fast statement. Another
> thing I want to address in this course is System issues such as
> disk-space, time to load etc, all things that are not easily understood
> by a number of participants but I hope they will get an impression about
> it once they tried to work with a reasonable amount of records.
>
> Is there such a thing like a standardized database with a few tables
> with at least a few hundret thousand, better more than a million records
> each? And where can I get such data from?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards
>
> Toni
>
Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 04:56:09 CDT
