Re: Best Way To Reorg?

From: Tim Cuthbertson <timcuth_at_cris.com>
Date: 1998/11/21
Message-ID: <736qga$c26_at_journal.concentric.net>#1/1


If you can afford Platinum TsReorg, keep it. It is MUCH faster and easier to use than exp/imp.

toneczar_at_erols.com wrote in message <731as5$bnm$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>cjwood_at_interaccess.com (Christopher J. Wood) wrote:
>
>> I've been using Platinum's TSReorg to do my Oracle database
>> reorganization.
 

>> A colleague mentioned that 8.0x now has this functionality
>> built-in--meaning no more need for TSReorg!
 

>> Any comments?
>
>No, that's not true. The Oracle Enterprise Manager "Performance Pack" does
>have a tablespace defragmenter, which is essentially export / drop /
 recreate
>/ import, but the Oracle Intelligent Agent is uses to run the jobs is
 buggy.
>
>In 8.1 (or "8i") the kernel will automatically coalesce contiguous free
>extents into larger extents (in 7.x and 8.0 you could only do this via [a]
>manually doing an "alter tablespace XXX coalesce" or [b] setting the
 default
>pctincrease of the tablespace to a non-zero value). But that's not the same
>thing as defragmenting the used data extents.
>
>Chris
>
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Received on Sat Nov 21 1998 - 00:00:00 CET

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