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Re: How can i change the MAXEXTENTS ??

From: James C. Specht, Jr. <jspecht_at_primenet.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:42:11 -0400
Message-ID: <35CA3143.22EE@primenet.com>


Thomas Kyte wrote:
>
> A copy of this was sent to ashesh48_at_my-dejanews.com
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> On Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:17:33 GMT, you wrote:
>
> >Hi All, I got into the problem with the MAXEXTENTS of the table. It has
> >reached to its maxlevel of the 121/121. How can I increase it?? Has anybody
> >know the syntex for it ? How it affects to performace? And what is the
> >recommanded number oof extents for a table??
> >
> >Thanx for any help in advance.
> >Ashesh
> >
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> What version of Oracle? Try:
>
> SQL> alter table <TNAME> storage ( maxextents unlimited );
>
> or use some other number in place of unlimited.
>
> As long as your extent size is a multiple of your db_file_multiblock_read_count,
> having 1, 100 or 1000 (or more) extents is pretty much the same.
>
>
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I have been told that you should keep you extents at 1. The more extents you have the slower your responses get. It is even discussed in the Oracle Admin Guide. Am I wasting my weekends resizing tables to keep myself at 1 extent? Received on Thu Aug 06 1998 - 17:42:11 CDT

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