If by not practical you mean, "no one has implemented a multivariable
testing approach," I'll agree with you. But multivariable testing is
definitely a valid statistical approach to solving just such problems.
-tfo
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On Mar 21, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> That's not really practical. There are currently 5 major query tuning
> parameters, not counting the memory adjustments which really can't be
> left
> out. You can't realistically test all combinations of 6 variables.