- No. Unless autoextend is turned on for the datafiles, they can not grow
in size. A table is fully contained within it's tablespace.
- In order to estimate extent sizes and numbers of extents, you have to
estimate the growth rates of the objects in the tablespace.
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> I have an index tablespace that someone had set maxextents to
> unlimited. The datafiles in that tablespace do not have auto
> extend turned on. The disk that those datafiles are on is 98%
> full. I realize that the storage for objects that don't have
> storage specified will take the default of the tablespace (in
> this case, unlimited).
>
> 1. With these settings, could the objects themselves extend
> beyond the current datafile sizes causing the disk to completely
> fill?
>
> 2. If I want to now set maxextents to a limited amount (when
> it had previously been sent to unlimited), how can I know what
> a "safe" number is to set it too?
>
> Oracle 8.05/HPUX
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