Re: University Assignment

I think Sybrand's point is that in real life (as opposed to school life) we need to figure these things out for ourselves through experience and research. (which is what the employer pays you for) Otherwise, you hire a consultant and pay them.

There is a ton of information in the documentation. There are plenty of books on Oracle. You could go to a book store and read there. There are a ton of web sites that have (Usually Oracle consultants) white papers etc.

The journey is more important than the ending point. What you find out in researching this question is much more important than the particular answer to the Oracle aspect. That is the very act of doing the research is what you are learning not the particulars of Oracle. The fact that you will make errors, maybe even basic ones, will do you in good stead later on in life.

If you don't believe me then pay me $10,000 American; I'll do the assignment and call me up in 10 years and see if I was right. Jim

"Ben" <assignment_hlp_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:660cc051.0112170736.51336c74_at_posting.google.com...
> postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl (Sybrand Bakker) wrote in message
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> > assignment_hlp_at_hotmail.com (Ben) wrote in message
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> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > If any Oracle experts could help me, I'd be very grateful! Just
> > > received a uni assignment on Tuning Techniques for Orcacle 8i. What we
> > > need to do is evaluate some performance aspect of Oracle, for example
> > > indexing, clustering, normalisation and query complexity. We need to
> > > pick a suitable research question, set up the experiment: designinga
> > > suitable data model and query set, build the database and generate
> > > data (100,000 + records has been advised).
> > >
> > > I was hoping someone would be able to offer some advice, as to what
> > > the best performance aspect is that I could carry out and what the
> > > best way would be to conduct it (generating the data too!!). If there
> > > are any good urls, (or even if someone has done what I need!!!!) I'd
> > > also be very interested to see. It's a case of setting the experiment
> > > up, and goign to uni and conducting the experimetns at different times
> > > of the day (network performance also needs to be taken into
> > > consideration).
> > >
> > > If anyone has any great ideas, please get back to me.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> >
> >
> > or even if someone has done what I need!!!! EXACTLY, THAT IS WHAT THIS
> > POST IS ALL ABOUT
> >
> > What do you pay for doing your homework?
> >
> > Don't you think you won't learn anything from this assignment if
> > someone else does it?
> >
> > No regards at all
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker
> > Senior Oracle DBA
> >
> >
> > Sybrand
>
>
> Thanks for all your help Mr. Senior Oracle DBA! U must have such a
> great life replying to posts which are of no use to anyone! What I
> asked for was ideas.
>
> Best regards!
Received on Thu Dec 20 2001 - 07:45:43 CET