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Re: Newbie Question - weird extents

From: Rachel Carmichael <carmichr_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 14:46:22 GMT
Message-Id: <10486.104806@fatcity.com>


Christy,

did those tables hold more records at one point or another? If you have deleted records, Oracle does NOT deallocate the extents. That is one possible explanation.

Rachel

>From: "Warthling, Christy" <cwarthling_at_CharterOneBank.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: Newbie Question - weird extents
>Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 06:14:08 -0800
>
>Hi all -
>
>Being new to Oracle, I'm not sure if this is a common occurrence or if it
>indicates anything in particular.
>
>We have an application (Lawson) using Oracle 8.1.5 (on NT, more's the
>pity).
>I have been checking file sizes pretty religiously since I'm new, the
>system
>is new, and we just went into production.
>
>Yesterday a consultant (very helpful one, btw) was here helping me with
>some
>other issues, and we noticed that two of the tables seemed to have an oddly
>large number of extents (one had 49, one had 36 or so). Strange,
>considering that each table had only 14 records and the initial extent
>should have been plenty large enough to hold way more than that. We ended
>up exporting/truncating tables/recreating/importing the data, which worked
>fine.
>
>But I'm curious to know if there's any way I can figure out why they seemed
>to break up like that - what do you all think?
>
>TIA for any ideas -
>
>Christy
>cwarthling_at_charteronebank.com
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>Author: Warthling, Christy
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