RE: multiple extents are OK, dagnabbit!

And I was worried about 20 to 60 extents. :)

But I do have one question, if a table has multiple extents, 20 extents at 1Mb each, and they are
contiguous, is that equal to 1 extent of 20Mb big ?? Does oracle have to work harder to get
those 20 extents ? (okay two questions)

Darren

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Hi All,

        Actually, in extreme cases ( >87000 in my case, and I had 12 tables
like that) it can cause problems with upgrading. Not sure what, but we had to do CTAS into new tables with much larger extents to do the upgrade from 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 here. Had Oracle support and consultants baffled also

I still like to keep the number of extents below 500, but I'm paranoid :)

Dave

Rachel wrote:
Snip ....
> There really is NO reason to worry about large numbers of extents these
> days. I mean, I wouldn't want to really test the "unlimited" ability
> but other than that, there is no problem.

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