Re: Take your system down with Cartesian Joins -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Take your system down with Cartesian Joins
From: "Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:58:59 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:51 PM, <elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How to fill up your disk (system auxiliary storage pool) and take down
your system. Create a query to output to a file. Join two or more
tables but neglect to join the tables. This will produce a Cartesian
join. http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Cartesian_join

I don't have much to do with the DBA side of things on the i, but i'm
sure you can limit the resources that are allowed to be used by a
single query, or the storage used by a single user/login.

I know that i can do this kind of stuff in SQL Server.

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