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Re: Odd statement in docs regarding block size

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_oracle.com>
Date: 6 Apr 2002 08:20:46 -0800
Message-ID: <a8n78u0c6s@drn.newsguy.com>


In article <a8n3qp$suamf$1_at_ID-54600.news.dfncis.de>, "Steffen says...
>
>"Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
>news:a8ko11$5pg$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz...
>> This is the same documentation that says SYSTEM can be created locally
>> managed, which is only true of 9i release 2. I wouldn't therefore pay it
>too
>> much attention on this issue; it is simply wrong if it implies 8K is the
>> only permitted block size on NT. I do 16K every time.
>
>hm, shoudn't the ora block size not always be equal to the os block size?
>
>

no, a multiple of, not the same as. many os's do 512bytes for example.

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