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In article <a8n3qp$suamf$1_at_ID-54600.news.dfncis.de>, "Steffen says...
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>"Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>hm, shoudn't the ora block size not always be equal to the os block size?
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no, a multiple of, not the same as. many os's do 512bytes for example.
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