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Don't take my word for it. Check out Steve Adams' comments, at
www.ixora.com.au. Look under Tips (I think). There's an article there called
'choosing a large database block size'.
Regards
HJR
"dbuckingham" <member_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message
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> HJR comments that in NT/2000 he always sets the DB_BLOCK_SIZE to be 16k
> and others back that it should be either the same as or a multiple of
> the os_block_size. In NT/2000 I believe that the default is 8k, so is
> there a real need to set them at 16k?
>
> Basically I am after some clarification as to how I should set them in
> NT/2000 for currently we have them set to 8k and i want to know if this
> is optimal?
>
> Any comments.
>
>
>
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> Daniel Buckingham
> Technical Consultant
> Mercia Software
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Received on Wed May 29 2002 - 03:07:44 CDT