RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

> Hi Hans/Vikas,
>
> I tend to agree that the old draconian rule that "thou
> shalt always separate indexes from tables" may not
> apply any more. We used to apply that principle in the
> past when the number of available spindles was not
> adequate. Seems like with 256G drives in the market,
> we are being pushed back in time, in some way!!!

however as was mentioned before, i do separate them for ease of operational maintainence. things like backups, rebuilds, and all the other things to recover from user input.;-) so call me old fashioned, just don't call me late for the food.;-)

PS hi Gaja.;-)

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