Re: What is an extent ?

Atif,
An extent is " A specific number of contiguous data blocks, obtained in a single allocation, used to store a specific type of information" (server concepts 7.2 P1-13)

Your ideas that you mentioned are correct, min_extents is the minimum number of extents to allocate when creating the object, max_extents is the maximum number of extents the object is allowed to grow to.

Regards
Steve

Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote in article <aak2.848427944_at_Isis.MsState.Edu>...
>
> SQL reference manual talks about how to increase and decrease the number
 of
> extents but doesn't actually say what it is. Looks like short for
 "extensions"
> Maybe not. (Minimum extensions, maximum extensions) doesn't make sense.
> I looked up "extent" in webter and their description of the word extent
 doesn't
> seem fitting either. Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Atif Khan
> aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu
>
  Received on Wed Nov 20 1996 - 00:00:00 CET