Re: Database Performance

If I were you I would start with the *one* SQL statement that is taking abnormally long time to execute. Once identified, you can analyze it, check indexes, check the optimizer (cost or rule)....

Eddie.

<kskasi_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:39570A55.FF6B8F54_at_hotmail.com...
> Hello everyone
>
> The problem is that, the biggest table we have in our system has got
> only about 50,000 records. But the system seems to be slow even with
> those many records. Our DBA feels that enough space wern't alloted to
> the tables and they might be sitting in multiple extends. I had a look
> at the extends and I did notice that there are about 7 - 10 extends for
> the big table and some of the indexes. According to him, if there are
> more number of extends then oracle has to search through all the extends
> which takes more time. I had a look at Oracle documentation and it
> dosen't mention about this at all. I just want a second opinion on this
> before I drop the tables and recreate them with enough space. I guess I
> can rebuild the indexes with enough space but the tables has to be
> dropeed and reloaded. Any help would be appreciated
>
> Cheers...kasi
>
Received on Mon Jun 26 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT