Re: Oracle 8.1.17 extent management

Hi,
If it can be done move to locally managed tablespaces and for the major objects in the database place them in their own tablespaces defined using uniform extent sizes.
If not define dictionary tablespaces that have the same initial and next extent sizes, also it is possible to define a minimum extent size, which if you make the same as the initial/next, means that there will never be different extent sizes in any tablespace. If it is not practical to move to new dictionary tablespaces then yes alter the next extent values. Sounds like someone trying to keep all of the data in one extent, which was never really a good idea, I had to deal with the same issue - tables defined with massive initial extent sizes and tiny next sizes. Also I never define storage attributes at the object level now, I create appropriate tablespaces and let the objects inherit the settings from their tablespace.

Regards

Pete

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:36 PM, John Dunn <JDunn_at_sefas.com> wrote:

> In have a customer still runing 8.1.7. They were having performance
> issues which appeared to be due to frgmentation. An export and import solved
> the performance issue.
>
> They are due to move to Orcale 10 soon, but in the mean time what can they
> do to minimise fragmentation on 8.1.7.
>
> Move to locally managed tablespaces? Change the next extent values(which
> appear to be very small) ?
>
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Pete

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