Now, this isn’t directly relevant to this quite funny post of yours but your crack about disabling transaction logging made me wonder for some reason, how Oracle’s compression option effects logging performance. Does compression even touch the logs or just the data (tables)? Any chance you have some logs from benchmark runs (maybe TPC-C) that you could share with me for some random experiments I’d like to try? I know that is a large request, maybe zipped up and put up on gigasize or divshare….if not are there any in the wild (I’m really trying to avoid installing the beast of Oracle just to get some logs to play with–if not obvious I’m not an Oracle expert)

an aside…what gives with the Oracle website, not that you can do anything about it, but it has been unreachable for about an hour this afternoon.