Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **

Hi Glen, The recommendation is cautionary in case some corruption happens, be it hardware related (hard drive, or memory segmentation...) or software related (OS or DBMS). You don't have to run it, however, it is a prudent practice to run some sort of these types of procedures on your database, regardless of the DBMS vendor. Just my two cents worth. In <47jb5d$qj@news.infi.net> gtravis@richmond.infi.net (Glenn Travis) [snip] >Does that mean they can corrupt a database that much faster??? >System XI still has a chapter in the manuals on corruption and what >you have to run every night to prevent it (DBCC). I have yet to see >this chapter disappear from Sybase or appear in any other vendor's >dba guides... > >-------- > >Glenn Travis >DBA (Ingres/Oracle/Sybase) >Circuit City Stores, Inc. >Richmond, VA USA >gtravis@richmond.infi.net >gtravis@aol.com >