Re: [PERFORM] Looking for ideas on how to speed up warehouse loading

2004-04-22 Thread Nicholas Shanny
One other thing: we are running with a block size of 32K. Nick Shanny (Brother of above person) On Apr 22, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Sean Shanny wrote: I should have included this as well: show all; name |setting + add_missing

Re: [PERFORM] Question about difference in performance of 2 queries

2003-12-30 Thread Nicholas Shanny
Tom, I understand the problem and your solution makes sense although I am still puzzled by the machine under-utilization. If you run the original query and monitor the IO/CPU usage you find that it is minimal. here is the output from iostat 1 for a brief portion of the query. I am very curi