Long Raw field in table

From: Sailaja U Baljepalli <baljepsu_at_ucunix.san.uc.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 1994 09:50:14 -0500
Message-ID: <2lnc36$daq_at_ucunix.san.uc.edu>


I was wondering if anyone out there has experienec with long raw columns in tables. We created a table with one long raw column to store binary information. The problem is that any activity on that table takes an enormous amount of time. For example if we do a select count(*) via sqlplus when the table has about 50 rows, it takes almost 5 minutes for the query to come back ! The table is indexed on a NUMBER(6) column and it seems that Oracle does something internally when dealing with such tables which slows down the queries. No response yet from Oracle (we have a TAR for this).
We would appreciate if anyone can share their experieneces with such tables. We are running Oracle 7.0.15.1 on Netware 3.11. Thanx
Sailaja Baljepalli
baljepsu_at_ucunix.san.uc.edu Received on Thu Mar 10 1994 - 15:50:14 CET

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