On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:16:42 -0800, Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU>
said:
> I agree that I may be advocating optimizing for an infrequent
> case; I prefer to think of it as a clean design. :-) Regarding shared
> the use of database files, I note that Oracle can dynamically extend a
> shared database file, so there's a possibility that the
> extend-while-interior-I/O-is-in-progress scenario might occur
> (depending upon how Oracle manages their own internal queuing, of
> course).
Of course, but it is very unlikely to be performance-critical.
--Stephen
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