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.
When applied to a CHAR or NCHAR column, Oracle LENGTH returns the maximum length of the column (defined in CREATE TABLE), while SQL Server LEN returns the actual data length. Oracle Example: -- Get the length of string (returns 5) SELECT LENGTH('Spain') FROM dual; SQL Server Example: