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Re: Tablespace Allocation Type & Extent Management

From: Connor McDonald <hamcdc_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:01:25 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00317CFF.20010601073701@fatcity.com>

(From 8.1.6), dbms_space_admin can convert back and forth between the two...

When you are converting from dictionary to local, then oracle needs to be able map the existing content into a bitmap header where each bit maps to a consistent size.

Thus if you're entire tablespace contained (say) 50 x 100M extents, then the bitmap could contain 50 bits each representing 100M. If the tablespace contained 10x10M, 10x5M extents, then each bit would represent 5m and the extents that are 10M would occupy 2 bits.

So Oracle uses the greatest common denominator of all extent sizes in the tablespace to work out what each bit should represent. So if you had 10x10m extents, and 5x128k extents, and 2x16k extents, the each bit will represent 16k, and thus each 10m extent will be represented by 640bits (each one mapping to 16k), so in reality oracle is viewing this as a table of 640x16k extents..

hth
connor


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