Hello all, FWIW, I use managed in dictionary, no auto-extend, on an HP-UX, OPS 8.1.6.3 system. I considered locally managed (and auto vs. uniform), but as I have extremely fast I/O, I could not justify pulling it out of the dictionary (no problems of excessive $FET and $UET pinging). Now, that was 1 1/2 years ago, so things may have changed. I am upgrading to 8.1.7.2.1 w/i the next month, so I could use that time to switch over, if things have really changed.
Thank you, Paul Sherman DBA voice - 781-501-4143 (office) fax - 781-278-8341 (office) email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey Stephen - That's DENNIS damnit! And I didn't say that uniform extents increase performance (I like autoextend and not getting awakened in the middle of the night), but if anyone has evidence that they do, please share it. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 3:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Heather: Another thing to consider. If the vendor of your student application system has not worked with LMTs, you may encounter support issues should you have problems with database accessibility. I would verify that LMTs are supported before converting. In terms of usage, LMTs are great as they remove all of the ridiculous I/O encountered by the SYSTEM tablespace for monitoring extent performance, allocation, and deallocation. Denise is correct that uniform extents significantly improve the performance of LMTs, however, multiple uniform extent types can be used. However, if your extent sizes are all over the map, you should create some uniform size and then move to LMT. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance Manager Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.compuware.com -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 3:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Locally managed tablespaces Heather - Is there a particular reason the consultant is doing this other than maybe this is the first opportunity to learn this? Just my cynical side. Mentioning cynical, I was leery of the procedure to convert an existing dictionary-managed tablespace to a locally-managed one, but we production DBAs tend to be a conservative lot. If you go that route, be sure that you end up with uniform extents which I consider the best part of LMT. Be sure to study the paper "How to Stop Defragmenting and Start Living: The Definitive Word on Fragmentation" by Himatsingka and Loaiza. before your consultant comes so that both of you agree on the approach to take. This is available on Oracle's Web site. The worst circumstance (see cynical above) would be for one person to create them and the other person to maintain them, but each with a different philosophy. I think LMT and uniform extents and extensible tablespaces are the greatest features Oracle has added recently. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have just heard today that an external consultant, who is coming to upgrade software for our Student Records system next week, wants to unload the live, test and training databases, and recreate them using locally managed tablespaces. I've been reading all the incredibly positive things oracle have to say about this, but has anybody any real experience of using locally managed tablespaces, and if so, are there any major disadvantages or knock-on effects that I should be aware of? Apart from trying to find disk space to unload each database to do this, would it have any additional space implications? Basically, I need to decide if I should let this go ahead. 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