Re: Suggestions for first exam ...

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:3f75a8ff$0$9828$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...

> Again, absolutely agree: I've measured it several times. You want to know
> something *really* sad? Student in performance tuning class last week
> announced she's running a SAP application, and SAP have told her that
> *daily* index rebuilds are a requirement, otherwise the support contract's
> at risk. I frankly can't believe it, but she swore it was true. Anyway,
> point being: there are thousands of people out there doing regular weekly
> or monthly rebuilds to precisely no end, and thinking they are doing good.

I can confirm that SAP requirement: was the victim of it myself a few years ago during a SAP install. Their "rule book" was written ages ago, mostly from shared "experiences" from the "best DBAS in the world" and such. And no one has ever bothered setting it right since. After all, what better excuse could they find to move their customers to their usual turf: the mainframe? Just blame Oracle for needing all this "expensive" maintenance. This from a company that charges their services and third party ones at triple the rate of everyone else...

> A peace offering to Sybrand: I accept that in pushing for the correctives
> that are needed on this subject because of all those myths, I can appear to
> believe in black and white, when I realise that the world is actually grey.
> Sometimes to make a point, one has to make it rather more emphatically than
> others care for. When that happens, it helps not to take it personally, but
> to understand the context in which things are said.

Nothing wrong with that in my book. I prefer you folks say it black and white than any other PC approach: waste of time otherwise.

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Nuno Souto
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