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"zeb" <thierry.constant1.nospam_at_free.fr> wrote in message news:<3ec747cb$0$17283$626a54ce_at_news.free.fr>...
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to estimate the sort_area_size for the creation of index for
> a big table ?
>
> Thanks in advance
If you are using 9i, look into PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET and WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY instead trying to manually tune SORT_AREA_SIZE, HASH_AREA_SIZE, BITMAP_MERGE_AREA_SIZE, and CREATE_BITMAP_AREA_SIZE. Set WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY to auto, size PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET properly and let ORACLE worry about PGA management.