Re: LMT advice

Thanks Howard. Appreciated your professional manner.

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:3f764c3b$0$13416$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> Jack Wang wrote:
>
> >> the bad taste that was
> >> PCT_INCREASE will take an extremely long time to go away!!).
> >
> > Howard,
> >
> > Could you elaborate it more please? Is PCT_INCREASE involved in
> > autoallocate?
> >
> > - Jack
>
> Not at all. All I meant was, Oracle's previous attempts at self-automation
> have been, er, shall we say, 'a mixed blessing'.
>
> PCT_INCREASE was Oracle's *old* way of trying to help you: the more
 extents
> you require, the bigger I'll make them, so the fewer you'll need.
>
> It was an appalling piece of code which resulted in guaranteed
 fragmentation
> for the tablespace concerned.
>
> Bitten by that experience, any feature in Oracle which claims to do things
> for you, I always ask 'what's the catch'. Autoallocate is a new(ish) piece
> of 'let me help you' code, and it's taken me two versions to persuade
> myself that there is no catch. It works, it works well. And it has none of
> the nasties associated with PCT_INCREASE, it's (if you like)
> similarly-intentioned predecessor.
>
> So no, no connection, no involvement, just two completely different
 examples
> of 'self management'. One's dreadful, the other isn't.
>
> Regards
> HJR
Received on Sat Sep 27 2003 - 22:13:24 CDT