RE: Anyone using multi-block sizes for their databases

Well DB2 has had them for decades. And it is used in just about every single large mainframe DB2 database. We continue to claim "it's only for transportable tablespaces".
Right...
Cheers
Nuno Souto
from sunny Sydney

Quoting Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com>:

>
> The documented design goal for this feature is said
> to be support of transportable tablespaces. Having
> ported Oracle and run audited TPC-C for many years for
> a very high end SMP company, I can say that the real impetus for
> this feature was TPC-C. Same as the recycle pool. Same
> as hash clusters. That is not to say that these features
> are worthless for production. Quite to the contrary.

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