Re: What does maxquerylen in v$undostat really mean?

From: HansF <news.hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:47:02 GMT
Message-ID: <WJZud.24760$Ya4.17572@edtnps84>

Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> HansF wrote:
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>> Howard J. Rogers wrote:
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> [snip]
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>> Based on my experience,  I find Oracle tends to retain definitions for 
>> a term - if they want to change the definition, they tend to change 
>> the name.

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> "Experience". "Tend". These are generalities. Documentation should
> provide specific answers to specific questions. Your comment misses the
> point that, without specific, accurate documentation, we cannot know
> *for certain* whether your experience is playing us false this time; or
> whether the perceived past "tendency" not to change definitions is in
> force this time round. We cannot know. Therefore we are guessing and
> relying on our subjective experiences and perception of tendencies...
> and that is precisely what documentation is there to avoid.

By that statement, I surmise that you discount experience. Perhaps you just discount experience with the exception of your own?

Use of the term 'tend' simply stems from my general dislike of absolutism - a concept foreign to some.

But I defer to your superior wisdom and hereby refrain from further discussion on this, or any other topic, in this newsgroup.

TTFN/Hans Received on Sun Dec 12 2004 - 09:47:02 CST