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Re: PCTFREE & PCTUSED

From: Douglas Cowles <dcowles_at_us.ibm.com>
Date: 2000/03/15
Message-ID: <38CFBD62.4C0AA9C3@us.ibm.com>#1/1

I don't think so. PCTFREE maintains free space in the table so that there is room for a row to expand. If your rows are going to expand, you want a higher pctfree.
If you have a pctfree of 0 for example, and a row increases by 1 byte, your going
to have migration.

DNP wrote:

> I think you're getting PCTUSED and PCTFREE mixed up.
>
> David P.
Received on Wed Mar 15 2000 - 00:00:00 CST

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