Even without stripping you can't gaurantee it will be a contiguous section of disk space. The file could be scattered across the file system.
Richard Ji -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L My favorite part is "and all of the table's data will be stored in a relatively contiguous section of disk space". Is this even reasonable to believe, especially with any kind of striping implemented? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/03 12:00PM >>> Two reasons: a) if you go into extent map blocks then you will suffer an overhead of at least 1 billionth of a percent :-) b) more seriously, its generally easier to pick up a "rogue" table if its run into thousands of extents and you had not intended it to. Its not a performance problem per se, but its indicative that its a segment thats doing something that was unforseen in the design phase.. hth connor --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just read a .pdf by a couple of people at oracle > called Stop Fragmenting and start living where it > says not worry about the number of extents in a > tablespace. However in the administrators doc it > says the following: > > Estimate Table Size and Set Storage Parameters > Estimating the sizes of tables before creating them > is useful for the following reasons: > > You can use the combined estimated size of tables, > along with estimates for indexes, rollback segments, > and redo log files, to determine the amount of disk > space that is required to hold an intended database. > From these estimates, you can make correct hardware > purchases and other decisions. > > You can use the estimated size of an individual > table to better manage the disk space that the table > will use. When a table is created, you can set > appropriate storage parameters and improve I/O > performance of applications that use the table. For > example, assume that you estimate the maximum size > of a table before creating it. If you then set the > storage parameters when you create the table, fewer > extents will be allocated for the table's data > segment, and all of the table's data will be stored > in a relatively contiguous section of disk space. > This decreases the time necessary for disk I/O > operations involving this table. > > this is at the following link: > > http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a76956/tables.htm#208 > > am I reading this wrong or is Oracle stating that > you should have less extents in a table? 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