Chris, Unless I am wrong, you're making the assumpting the amount of time spent and ROI is known. Maybe those who've been down this path know how to get that additional 2-4% in 30 minutes or less?
While each person and business' performance gains (or not) could vary, someone spending the 50-100h to gain 2-4% over a course of a month for a 24x7 operation would seem worth the investment? I would assume that dbt2 with STP helps minimize the amount of hours someone has to invest to determine performance gains with configurable options? Steve Poe > If someone spends 100h working on one of these items, and gets a 2% > performance improvement, that's almost certain to be less desirable > than spending 50h on something else that gets a 4% improvement. > > And we might discover that memory management improvements in Linux > 2.6.16 or FreeBSD 5.5 allow some OS kernels to provide some such > improvements "for free" behind our backs without *any* need to write > database code. :-) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
