[thelist] Freebie tip

[Daniel J. Cody]

<tip type="oracle">

If you're exporting a database from oracle and using the 'exp' command 
to do it, oracle will prompt you for a array buffer fetch size. If you 
have any sort of decent machine(anything above a pII with SCSI) set the 
buffer size to something greater than the default of 4096. If you have 
enough machine to do it, try doubling or tripling that value.

I typically set it to 8192 and see about a 40% increase in speed at 
which it exports my database.

</tip>

.djc.