Re: How to calculate storage space

From: Michael Nolan <nolan_at_helios.unl.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 1994 19:41:58 GMT
Message-ID: <306oq6$ebf_at_crcnis1.unl.edu>


raskew_at_axion.bt.co.uk (Ron Askew) writes:

>The answer to this question is probably RTFM, but can anyone tell me which FM
>contains the formulae to calculate the space required for tables and indexes.

There isn't a 'simple' formula, but rather a series of calculations based on various factors, several of which can be adjusted by the DBA.

This information is rather spread around--Oracle manuals are a distributed database :-), but there is a good discussion of this in 'Oracle Performance Tuning' by Peter Corrigan and Mark Gurry, published by O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 1-56592-048-1. $34.95 in the USA.

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