Re: Oracle 8i (8.1.7.0.1) + Redhat Linux 7.2 = Cannot create tablespace file > 2 gb

> > For the same reasons that you don't want to carve your 100 GB hard drive
> up
> > into 50 2 GB partitions.
> >
>
> Not comparable situations at all.

In your mind.

>Unless you are using export, which doesn't count as a physical backup, then
the
> smallest unit of backup and restore in an Oracle database, until you get
to 9i, is
> that data file. Big data files, big backups. Small data files, small
backups
> extended over a longer backup cycle.

And how is physically backing up 5 2000mb datafiles any different than backing up 1 10000mb datafile?
Either way the same amount of data is backed up. Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 06:30:41 CDT