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From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Misinformation Ranting
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Mladen, 

You KNOW you always have to have your towel with you. No matter what
drives you use.

Rachel

--- "Gogala, Mladen" <MGogala@oxhp.com> wrote:
> How do you set _spin_count for the new infinite improbability 
> driven disks? Do you have to have your towel always with you?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fink, Dan [mailto:Dan.Fink@mdx.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 1:18 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: Misinformation Ranting
> > 
> > 
> > So, if we set _spin_count to a negative number, does this 
> > force the disks to
> > spin backwards? This way you could reverse all the 
> > transactions that are on
> > the disk!
> > 
> > -dwf
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:33 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tim Gorman [mailto:Tim@SageLogix.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 12:23 AM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: Re: Misinformation Ranting
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Bad as your experience is, be grateful you weren't confronted 
> > > with this
> > > beauty in the one-world of JD Edwards:
> > > 
> > > >> At XXXXXXXX they're having wonderful problems. But what
> > > >> really started this is a detail from their 
> > recommendations that you
> > > >> missed last year:  in there they suggest that you count 
> > the number
> > > >> of disk drives in your system and multiply by the rpm count.
> The
> > > >> result should then be used to set "_spin_count". So if you
> have 5
> > > >> disks and they do 10000 rpm (each :) ), then "_spin_count"
> should
> > > >> be set to 50000
> > > 
> > > The mind reels...
> > > 
> > > ...after all, what else could a parameter named 
> > "_spin_count" possibly
> > > represent?  :-)
> > 
> > We all know that _spin_count actually represents number of 
> > seconds that
> > the world needs to spin around. That number is, as you know, highly
> 
> > volatile. The world has spun much faster when I read your piece
> about
> > disks, rpms and _spin_count.
> > -- 
> > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
> > -- 
> > Author: Gogala, Mladen
> >   INET: MGogala@oxhp.com
> > 
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