Lucy /lucy/ [2 sylls.] as a girls' name is pronounced LOO-see. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Lucy is light. Feminine of Lucius; vernacular form of Lucia.The feast day of Saint Lucy (fourth century), patroness of sight, is called the Festival of Light in Sweden.Lucy is also a bossy little girl in Charles Schulz's popular Peanuts comic strip. Actress Lucy Liu.t is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Lucy is light. Feminine of Lucius; vernacular form of Lucia. The feast day of Saint Lucy (fourth century), patroness of sight, is called the Festival of Light in Sweden. Lucy is also a bossy little girl in Charles Schulz's popular Peanuts comic strip. Actress Lucy Liu.
The IO timing results showed that the average read time dropped from 0.279 milliseconds to 0.264 milliseconds per read, the major change being in the average write time which dropped from an average of 5.646 milliseconds to 1.324 milliseconds.ou may also want to consider information provided by Oracle MOSC in that you  can find out the average time taken for I/O from AVGIOTIM in V$FILESTAT. This, and many other Oracle performance metrics are discussed in my book Oracle Tuning by Rampant TechPress.
This whitepaper shows specific examples of DBA tasks which are faster on Oracle. With the average DBAâs salary at $106,000 per year as of 2009, larger shops can save millions of dollars in DBA staffing costs by using Oracle over MSSQL. See my notes here on the cost of owning SQL Server and Oracle.ere are the costs as of 2009, according to this OTN discussion on Oracle vs. SQL Server licensing costs (unverified cost figures). Here we see that while Oracle is at least 10x more powerful than MS-SQL, it only costs 3x more than SQL server: 2009 license cost of Oracle 11g Standard Edition. - Per Processor = $17,500.