Re: Sizing Tablespaces for Indexes

From: Roger Snowden <snowden_at_haven.ios.com>
Date: 1995/08/24
Message-ID: <41ib5r$j89_at_news.ios.com>#1/1


: Stan Novinsky (stan_novinsky_at_jhuapl.edu) wrote:

: > I have been reading several Oracle books on how to claculate
: > the correct size for the index tablespace that will contain the
: > indexes for my tables. It seems that each author has a
: > differnet method. Is there a simple yet robust method
: > of doing this as far as calculating the DB file size, initial,
: > and next extents sizes ???

I built an Excel spreadsheet to estimate index sizes, based on Kevin Loney's suggested method in his book "Oracle DBA Handbook". I worked well for primary/unique indexes, but was way short for indexes that had a lot of duplicates. His model does not account for duplicates at all. Otherwise, it was pretty accurate.

Roger Received on Thu Aug 24 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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