Re: Backups in a DW Environment

> Would it be incorrect to assume that you never do inserts
> into newly loaded partitions, or updates that could increase
> the length of rows?
>
> 1 pctfree could be problematic in that case.

Btw, if you're sure that rows won't grow, it use even pctfree 0 instead of 1. One thing you have to have in mind in this case, that there might not be enough room for allocating additional ITL entries in a block, so you should use INITRANS for setting minimum number of entries a block has.

Tanel.

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