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LOB Storage Characteristics

From: Glen Mitchell <glen.mitchell_at_peace.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:52:44 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00324C54.20010611175043@fatcity.com>

Greetings All,
I am using Oracle 81630 on Solaris 7 and I have a table which contains a
LOB (CLOB actually).  The DDL statement is as follows ... CREATE TABLE B_STATEMENT_TEXT_ORA (stmtnum NUMBER(10) NOT NULL, statement_content CLOB)
STORAGE (INITIAL 100M NEXT 100M PCTINCREASE 0) TABLESPACE energy_proc_data_100M_02
LOB (statement_content) STORE AS b_statement_text_ora_lob (TABLESPACE energy_proc_lob_100M
DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW
STORAGE (INITIAL 100M NEXT 100M PCTINCREASE 0) CHUNK 8192
PCTVERSION 10
);
The details from user_lobs are ...

SEGMENT_NAME                  

TABLESPACE_NAME
SEGMENT_TYPE           
BYTES    EXTENTS
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------
---------- ----------
B_STATEMENT_TEXT_ORA          
ENERGY_PROC_DATA_100M_02       TABLE               104857600          1
SYS_IL0000046179C00002$$       ENERGY_PROC_LOB_100M           LOBINDEX           
104857600          1
B_STATEMENT_TEXT_ORA_LOB       ENERGY_PROC_LOB_100M           LOBSEGMENT          104857600         
1
 

The DML operations on the table include SELECT, INSERT and DELETE. There is no UPDATE activity.
Typically the data for each CLOB entry is larger than 4K so I am specifying that it is stored in the lobsegment and not the table. My question is one related to data access for the table, lobsegment and
lobindex.  Would there be any I/O performance benefit in having the
table, lobsegment and lobindex located in different tablespaces (which would be located on different physical drives)? As you can see I can split the table and lobsegment/lobindex into separate tablespaces.  I have tried to split the lobsegment and lobindex
up into separate tablespaces but according to the 816 documentation this
is no longer supported under 8i (depracation of the LOB_index_clause). According to Metalink the lobsegment and lobindex are co-located in 8i
for a specific reason - but I cannot find what that is! Also, is there any way to specify a name for the lobindex, rather than rely upon the system generated name?
Thanks
Glen
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Glen Mitchell                   NZ Phone: +64 9 3730400
Energy Research Lab             URL: http://www.peace.com
Peace Software                  Email: glen.mitchell_at_peace.com

 
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