Re: PCTFREE=0 and updates

Try this:

CREATE TABLE xyz (
varfield VARCHAR2(10),
charfield CHAR(10));

INSERT INTO xyz
(varfield)
VALUES
('ABC'); COMMIT; SELECT LENGTH(varfield), LENGTH(charfield) FROM xyz;

What do you think?

Is hard disk space that precious?

Daniel Morgan

Robert Eden wrote:

> If I only update statically sized columns in a table ( NUMBER, CHAR
(not
> VARCHAR)) can I sent PCTFREE to 0 to avoid the (default) 10% waste?
(no
> nulls involved)
>
> The Oracle docs aren't clear on the types of operations that change
"row
> size".
>
> Robert

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