RE: Oracle Data Compression

I made a joke last year that "iAS has everything in it, I wonder what Oracle will think of next, voice recognition???"

Well now I have to eat my words...

Maybe Oracle can put StarOffice inside iAS, why not...

Now that IBM mentioned self-healing, I suppose Oracle will embed the Oracle Expert in the database engine or something.

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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Sent:	Friday, August 09, 2002 3:28 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:	Re: Oracle Data Compression

I remember an instructor I had back in v6 days, who used to joke about, version 10 is the database that will totally self-sustaining, no DBA needed. Was he a visionary, bwaahahahahah, ok thats a joke ;)

joe

Carle, William T (Bill), ALCAS wrote:

>Howdy,
>
> I attended a seminar on Oracle data compression in version 9.2 this
morning. There are no web-based handouts to look at. However, there are a few items on it that may be of interest:
>
>Data compression is based on duplicate fields
>Compression is only done on direct operations ( for example, an ordinary
insert is not compressed)
>Indexed queries would not be any faster against compressed data (The index
is not compressed, just the data.)
>Updates are 10-20% slower.
>Deletes are 10% faster.
>Full table scans are much faster.
>
>Bottom line is that this would mainly be used for a data warehousing
application with lots of full table scans. It wouldn't be used for anything with lots of updating or online queries.
>
>Also, we were told that 9.2 is the terminal release of 9i. The next version
will be 10i.
>
>
>Bill Carle
>AT&T
>Database Administrator
>816-995-3922
>wcarle_at_att.com
>

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