Re: Database Design

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1073412899.646311_at_yasure...
> grjohnson wrote:
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> > andrewst_at_onetel.net.uk (Tony) wrote in message
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> >>Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote in message
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> >>"it does not show that you have achieved anything other
> >>than memorising the facts required to pass the exam."
> >
> >
> > You can apply the same theory to a University Degree...
>
> Perhaps at some schools. But you'd never make it past my midterms, much
> less a final, trying a stunt like that. And I can guarantee you you'd
> not have survived Dr. Carl Djerassi or numerous other profs. whose
> company I have enjoyed over the years.
>
> Here are a couple of question my students handled:
>
> 2. Create a demo showing the differences in performance inserting,
> updating, and deleting 200,000 rows in the following scenarios:
> 2A. Two heap tables with a foreign key constraint
> 2B. The same information modeled with a nested table
> 2C. The same two tables in a cluster (hash or index)
>
> 7. Create a demo procedure showing how to load an array indexed by
> binary integer and read records forward or backward depending on a
> passed parameter.
>
> Memorize away if you wish.
>
> BTW: What university did you attend?
>
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for an Oracle course that is what id expect, is you course a 'degree' or something else out of curiosity?

In England at least anyway degree courses are mainly exam with 30-40% coursework, so you can easily do well but repeating facts parrott fashion.

Its a shame that we dont have ( i think) courses like yours for Oracle at Universities, they dont seem to exist as far as I can tell. Universities are primarily degreee driven places All we get here is the one week things from Oracle and other training companies Received on Wed Jan 07 2004 - 13:25:03 CST