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Be careful about assertions that raw devices give better performance than
cooked ones as this is not always the case. Take a look at what your
application is doing, if it does lots of full table scans, using raw devices
may actually reduce overall performance, because you lose the benefit of the
Disk buffer cache.
Tom Baker <tcbaker_at_erols.com> wrote in message
news:7oqi1o$pni$1_at_autumn.news.rcn.net...
> Hi:
>
> I am an ex Sybase DBA and new to Oracle. In Sybase you use raw devices
for
> performance and safety of your data from server failures.
>
> I have read that Oracle is betten on cooked files. Is this true? Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tom
> tcbaker_at_erols.com
>
>
Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 06:11:14 CDT