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Re: Locally Managed Tablespaces ... again!!!

From: David Sharples <david.sharples3_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:14:38 -0000
Message-ID: <h8ST9.374$CI5.2646@newsfep4-gui.server.ntli.net>

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:aJLT9.20894$jM5.57627_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
>
> "David Sharples" <david.sharples3_at_ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:bGIT9.274$CI5.2092_at_newsfep4-gui.server.ntli.net...
> >
> > If Oracle's own instructors (not all probably) are still teaching that
it
> is
> > better for performance, then the myth wont go away anytime quickly
> >
>
> To be fair to the instructors, it's hard to teach anything otherwise than
as
> written in the course documentation: and in this case, the course
> documentation itself is still peddling the 'separate indexes for
> performance' myth.
>
> Bear in mind that instructing is an art and a skill in itself. You can't
> reasonably demand that every (or even 'nearly all') instructor be a
> technical wizard when it comes to Oracle's workings. If they can teach
well,
> that is all you can really ask for. But because they aren't technical
> gurus, many of them will teach the material they are given by the
> Corporation without much pause for deep thought. Just occasionally, you'll
> encounter an instructor who not only likes instructing but actually wants
to
> know some detail about *what* he's instructing, and therefore goes to
great
> lengths to pick apart the myth from the truth, the fact from the error.
They
> are, however, few and far between (and not just at Oracle).
>
> It's also the case that with Oracle's course scheduling techniques (pile
'em
> in, bums on seats), and the number of instructors available, the time for
> that research has to come out of the instructor's own weekends/evenings.
> Provision for genuine research in what is laughably called 'Oracle
> *University*' is, er... shall we say 'somewhat lacking'. You might think,
in
> plainer terms, that it's actually pathetic. But I couldn't possibly
comment.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>

Hmmm, I just got an email from Oracle asking me to comment on the content of their courses. Good timing :-) Received on Sat Jan 11 2003 - 04:14:38 CST

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