Also along in the 7 days you had a ceiling on the maximum number
of extents associated with the block size. So, in some cases, there
was a practical reason to rebuild a table to fit in one extent.
RF
Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP
Oracle Database Architect
CSX Midtier Database Administration
Author
Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press - Oct 2002)
Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press)
Mastering Oracle8i (Sybex)
The avalanche has begun, It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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Jared,
What version of the database does this book refer to? I do remember
back in
Version 6 and early 7 that having all of your data for a table and/or index
all
in the first extent was a performance benefit. Regrettably that idea had
been
proved false more than once after 7.2 hit the street. I notice a
performance
improvement if tables/indexes are in more than one extent. But if she's
talking
about migrated and/or chained rows that's another matter & one that I'm
chasing
as I type.
Looks like you've got a classic case of someone with enough information
to
be dangerous.
Dick Goulet
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<RANT>
I've just spent 30 minutes with our SAP administrator trying to
convince her that we really don't need to reorganize the tables
in our production SAP database.
Due to some misinformation in an Oracle Press book, 'Oracle Unleashed'
I think, she is equating number of extents with fragmentation.
The text she referred me to is in fact discussing 'migrated rows' though
that term is never used. She has become convinced that if the
extents allocated for tables are not all in contigous space, some
very nasty fragmentation will occur.
I tried taking it down to disk and explaining that an OLTP system with
hundreds of users won't really see much benefit from this, but she
wasn't really ready for that. :)
Her concern is that there are 29000 extents in an index tablespace.
This might have something to do with there being 3400 indexes in
said tablespace.
Total 'wasted' ( honeycomb ) space in this 250 gig DB is < 20 meg. Not
much to gain there.
The text of the book states that you should expect a '10 to 20 percent
performance increase' by reorganizing the tables/indexes. No data to
back it up of course.
This is on a database that performs very well most of the time, outside
of a couple of custom reports that run too long. No complaints from
users about slowness.
Arrghhh!
I just had to vent to the list, cuz there's no one here that understands.
<\RANT>
Jared
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