Re: performance impact of index

"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:40b64a0e$0$25325$cc9e4d1f_at_news-text.dial.pipex.com...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
> news:40b58228$0$31678$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> >
> > "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in
message
> > news:40b57cd6$0$25323$cc9e4d1f_at_news-
> > > err and I've never yet met a read only database with data that never
> ever
> > > ever changed, and if I did I'd suspect it was unnecessary.
> >
> > Oh, I dunno. My table "TEN_WORST_EVER_SONGS" has the same ten David
Bowie
> > rows in it that its always had.
> >
> > Truly read-only.
>
> read-em and weep only surely :(

How true (if we keep this up, do you think Richard will come to the party eventually?)

> My colleague did meet a dba who was proudly in charge of a database with
no
> user data in it whatsoever, and should there be occasion when he found
data
> in it he wasn't to look. it wasn't read only though.

:-o

Plonk.

(Sound of me falling off my chair, laughing. Thank God I wore the tighter of my two corsets this morning, else I fear my sides would have split).

Regards
HJR Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 16:52:42 CDT