dazzity??????

[learn]

Hello guys, I am new to oracle. Lately, I have been hearing people talk about dazzity or dazzy(I'm not really sure about the spelling) I am wondering what that means?

P.S. I am running Oracle 8i on UNIX.

[wjramsey]

The correct term is DASD (pronounced dazz-dee)

which stands simply for Direct Access Storage Device

[learn]

Thanks Joe,
Since I am new to this field, can you tell me exactly what its purpose/importance is? If you have or any URL or documentation, can you please send it to me?

[wjramsey]

It just basically refers to disk storage devices like hard disks as opposed to tape/card systems and the like where you have serial access. Usually when people say DASD they are referring to some kind of disk array. There is no "documentation" - it's just a term to reference disk storage.