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Hi Fazia,

I would recommend the following white paper, it advocates using the SAFE
methodology.

HOW TO STOP DEFRAGMENTIING AND START LIVING
Bhaskar Himatsingka, Oracle Corporation
& Juan Loaiza, Oracle Corporation



You can find the paper on Cary Millsap's site.   www.hotsos.com



Sincerely,
      
Jay


Jay Earle, BSc(CS)  (jay_earle@smartforce.com)
DBA,  Operations Group
SmartForce, Learning Solutions for the Human Enterprise
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> An example:  Think of load a lot of data into a table, and then load
> on a  very limited basis.   This tells me to create a large first
>extent that  everything can fit into.  

why? there is no benefit to that


--- basher 59 <kb7yss@hotmail.com> wrote:
> No.   I can think of several reason when you would not wan them the
> save.  
> An example:  Think of load a lot of data into a table, and then load
> on a 
> very limited basis.   This tells me to create a large first extent
> that 
> everything can fit into.  Example:  Say 100M  and then you may want
> to make 
> next extents 5M.   Based on the fact that you won't be reaching the
> second 
> extent for a while.
> 
> Also the temp tablespace is used to sort.   I had an instance where
> the 
> sorts were taking a long time.   I looked at the temp tablespace and
> found 
> out that my current sort was using 300 extents of a very small size. 
>  I 
> increase my extent size to a large number, where the sort only took 4
> 
> extents and it really speeded up my sort.   To optimize everything I
> look at 
> the majority of my sorts and tried to make my first entent give me 90
> % of 
> these sorts.  Which was somewhat small, and then I made my next
> extents 
> large enough so my largest sort did not use more than about (5 to 10)
> 
> extents.
> 
> MN
> 
> 
> >From: "Malik, Fawzia" <Fawzia.Malik@bskyb.com>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L@fatcity.com>
> >Subject: storage parameters
> >Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:18:37 -0800
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Does Oracle reccommend having the initial and next extents set at
> the same
> >values???
> >I am tidying up a current schema and the values are non uniform all
> the way
> >through- any comments would be very much appreciated
> >
> >Rgds
> >
> >Fawzia
> >
> >
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