In article <356BFF40.779D_at_ictgroup.com>, Jerry Gitomer
<jgitomer_at_ictgroup.com> writes
>You can avoid these problems by using STORAGE clauses in your table
>create statements. Make the initial extent large enough to handle the
>expected normal volume and the next extent large enough so that one
>additional extent will hold all but the biggest tables. Also look at
>altering the PCTFREE value to leave enough space to accommodate all of
>the data that will be entered AFTER THE TABLE IS CREATED. Finally, if
>your applications entail the initial creation of a subset of each row
>and the row is filled in later use CHAR instead of VARCHAR or VARCHAR2
>in order to reserve the space up front.
>
The use of CHAR is a good idea, but if you have number columns
which start off null and are then updated, you still have problems.
(I think?!)
Steve
--
"The floggings will continue until morale improves."
Received on Wed May 27 1998 - 14:05:46 CDT
