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Data Dictionary Performance – reference September 29, 2009

Posted by mwidlake in internals, Perceptions.
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I’ve got a couple more postings on Data Dictionary performance to get where I plan to go to with this, but if you want to deep-dive into far more technical details then go and check out Dion Cho’s excellent posting on fixed object indexes.

I was not planning on getting into the sys.x$ fixed objects as you need SYS access to look at them, which not everyone has, but this is where Dion goes. His posts are always good, I need to check them far more.

As a soft-technical aside, I often mention to people when doing courses on SQL or writing standards or even the odd occasions I’ve discussed perception, that we Westerners are taught to read from left to right, top-to-bottom and we pick out left justification very well. Code laid out like the below we find easy to read:

select pers.name1                surname
      ,pers.name2                first_forename
      ,pers.nameother            middle_names
      ,peap.appdate              appointment_date
      ,decode (addr.name_num_ind
                 ,'N', to_char(addr.housenum)
                 ,'V', addr.housename
                 ,'B', to_char(addr.housenum
                              ||' '||addr.housename)
                                 house_no_name
      ,addr.address2             addr_street
      ,addr.address3             addr_town
      ,addr.address4             addr_dist
      ,addr.code                 addr_code
from person              pers
     ,address            addr
    ,person_appointments peap
where pers.addr_id     =addr.addr_uid
and   pers.pers_id     =peap.pers_id
and   pers.active_fl   ='Y'
and   pers.prim_cons   ='ANDREWSDP'
and   peap.latest_fl   ='Y'

But this is not true of other cultures, where people do not read left to right, top to bottom. I have had this confirmed just a couple of times when people who were born in Eastern cultures are in the course/conversation.

So I was very interested to see Dion’s Korean version of the blogpost I reference above (I really hope this link here to the korean version is stable).
The main body of the page is on the right, not left, but the text appears to be left justified.

Of course, I am horribly ignorant, I do not know which direction Koreans read in :-(. I could be spouting utter rubbish.

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