Index Sizing

I was in a discussion recently about how to estimate the size of a bitmap index before you build it, and why it’s much harder to do this for bitmap indexes than it is for B-tree indexes. Here’s what I wrote in “Practical Oracle 8i”:
An interest…

Exadata

Enkitec have just announced the call for papers for their E4 conference to be held in Irving, Texas this August. (See this link for the announcement.)
I’ll be there … playing the devil’s advocate.