have you done a 10046 trace (yes Cary, I listen to you!) on one of the
reports to see why/if there is a performance problem and if there is
one, where it is?

one sentence bothers me "the users continue to add reports" -- who
writes the SQL for these reports? Is it as efficient as it could be?
While FTS is not necessarily wrong, how large are the tables that are
being read?


--- DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have a new manager, and at his last employer the DBAs reorganize
> Oracle
> tables on a regular basis. I don't reorg tables on a regular basis.
> He is
> lobbying us to investigate this and test whether it would or wouldn't
> increase performance. We are on Oracle 8.1.6, Compaq Tru64, all
> tables are
> LMT with uniform extents. This is an OLTP system, but the users
> continue to
> add reports and the reports do quite a few full table scans. The
> reports are
> probably the critical performance issue at this time.
>    - Do you do regular table reorgs? What benefit does that give you?
>    - Are there any indicators of when a table reorg would be
> beneficial?
>    - What sort of test would verify whether a table reorg changed
> performance?
> 
> 
> 
> Dennis Williams 
> DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA 
> Lifetouch, Inc. 
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