Tech Tip du Jour: Over the threshold

I suspect I'm setting myself up for a huge caning from John Miller III here, but what the hell: http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/2008/08/tech-tip-du-jour-sacred-mysteries-of.html The worst thing that can happen is that I look like an idiot. :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/

"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1454.1217725051.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... >> I suspect I'm setting myself up for a huge caning from John Miller III >> here, but what the hell: http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/2008/08/tech-tip-du-jour-sacred-mysteries-of.html Good article. But ... >> The reason it causes so much grief is often down to an application design >> issue: if you have one or more tables where index entries are frequently >> deleted, then the B-Tree cleaner process has an abnormal amount of work >> to do. This is a piece of spin worthy of "New" Labour themselves! In what way are the performance issues that caused by the way in which the B-tree cleaner works by default, and which can only be altered by the DBA, an "application design issue"?