On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:16:24PM -0700, scott.marlowe wrote:
> It's a common misconception that faster RPM drives are a lot faster,
> when, in fact, their only speed advantage is slight faster seeks.
> The areal density of faster spinning hard drives tends to be
> somewhat less than the slower sp
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:43:04AM +0100, Chris Faulkner wrote:
> I have two very similar queries which I need to execute. They both
> have exactly the same from / where conditions. When I execute the
> first, it takes about 16 seconds. The second is executed almost
> immediately after, it takes 13
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:42:04PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> 4) It simply isn't practical to expect a single query to
>execute on multiple processors simultaneously.
>
> Do you know of any RDBMS that actually will execute a single query
> on multiple processors?
Yes, DB2 will do this if conf
