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A Reader -- Thanks for the question regarding "Yogurt vs Fromage Frais"
originally submitted on 01-Apr-2004 15:06 Eastern US time, last updated 01-Apr-2004 10:52You Asked (Jump to Tim's latest followup)
I had an interesting argument with my friend he works as a SQL Server DBA.
We were talking about clustering and he said that Fromage Frais would make a more
effective basis for a range of body armour than full fat yogurt.

I know every company says their milk-based dessert is more effective in combat
situations but what is your view O great Tim who knoweth all.

I am using Tesco Low Fat Apple yogurt but my friend says I should be using Marks &
Spencer Tangerine Fromage Frais Enterprise Edition for Windows.
and we said...
First of all - you are mixing apples and oranges.

Have you benchmarked either approach in any serious way using TKPROF, various
arcane combinations of V$ views nobody has heard of, STATSPACK or JDeveloper?  
 
  Reviews    
I beg to differ  April 1, 2004
Reviewer:  Padders  from London, England

Surely subtyped object constructors/subquery factoring/cursor expressions
MODEL() etc blah blah blah

Followup:
Well that is an interesting argument but basically my point still stands,
because it's my site and that's the way it works.  

Re. Yogurt vs Fromage Frais  April 1, 2004
Reviewer:  John Lewis from Brent Cross, London

I don't know much about body armour, but a large selection of delicious desserts is
available from my many department stores.

Would it help if I described in detail the mechanisms for inter-process communication
used by Oracle parallel query slaves? Surely no-one else knows that.

Followup:
No.  

I love you  April 1, 2004
Reviewer:  A reader

You're da MAN, Major Tom. I mean Tim.

There was no particular reason for me to post that.

I have not actually read anything else on this page and yet feel compelled to post some utter drivel  April 1, 2001
Reviewer:  Some Twat  from Indianapolis, IN USA

Which is faster, COUNT(*), COUNT(yogurt) or COUNT(fromage frais)?

I am committing in a loop to avoid Snapshot Too Old errors because I am a complete muppet.

Furthermore I irrationally believe OPEN-FETCH-EXIT-END-CLOSE loops perform better
than any other construct despite never having benchmarked anything ever, and indeed
not really being clear what a bench is or why you would want to mark a perfectly good one.

I read something with a lot of typos by Don Burleston that recommended using some
random undocumented hint for no clear reason in order to achieve blazing blistering
hypercharged performance, etc.

Re. Yogurt vs Fromage Frais  April 1, 2004
Reviewer:  Padders  from Old London Town

[...Padders unleashes SQL query of awesome power. The lights in London grow dim.
Then, all computers everywhere simultaneously arrive at their answers and all the
world's problems are solved. At last, we can all go home. ]

Re. Yogurt vs Fromage Frais  April 1, 2004
Reviewer:  Bob  from Irvine, CA


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