What sort of real world apps create tables less than 8k in size?
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Yong Huang" <yong321_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:b3cb12d6.0106141012.464e84a2_at_posting.google.com...
> I know very well Steve Adams' suggestion on this. But in some cases a
> smaller block size makes more sense. For instance, when you create a
> database in which you have many small tables, so small that every
> table takes space far less than 8k and they grow very slowly. From the
> space usage point of view, you can choose 4k or even 2k. Loss in
> performance due to extra I/O on garbage bits and bytes is an issue but
> may be a small one.
>
> BTW, has anyone seen a benchmark on different db_block_sizes? I
> remember somebody posted a message on an Oracle Applications mailing
> list claiming better performance using 16k block size than 8k as a
> result of some benchmark test.
>
> Yong Huang
> yong321_at_yahoo.com
>
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message
news:<3b287231_at_news.iprimus.com.au>...
> > 8K Oracle blocks on a Unix platform, and don't even think about it. See
> > Steve Adams' article entitled 'Why a Large Database Block Size' at
> > ixora.com.au for an explanation of why this one is a no-brainer.
Received on Fri Jun 15 2001 - 03:25:55 CDT
