Re: Oracle Myths

Niall,

I've been trying to follow this thread and quite a few topics have been brought up. Can you post an updated list of the "Oracle Myth's"? So far I've learned quite a bit of how some of our DBA's have been mis-informed or just Bull-S#$@! their way through.

Great thread topic!

Greg

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:<3ce21b71$0$8510$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
> Suggested list to be added to, deleted from etc
>
> Store your segments in one extent for optimum performance.
> Space in an index is never reused.
> Full table scans are always bad: use the index.
> Seperate tables and indexes for performance reasons.
> You should always backup the online redo logs to avoid data loss.
> Buffer cache hit ratio should be as high as possible preferably greater than
> 90%.(from the java tool we use developed in house)
> Library Cache hit ratio should be greater than 99% if it isn't increase the
> size of the shared pool.(ditto!)
> Smallest table should be the driving table for hash joins.
> PCTIncrease should be as small as possible but non-zero to minimize
> tablespace fragmentation.1% is a good value (from my OCP course notes though
> not necessarily given by the tutor!)
>
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> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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Received on Fri May 17 2002 - 09:46:19 CDT