Well, sort of.  If I had a 9i DB to play with, I'd try this myself...

1)  Create an SMT.
2)  Create 50 tables in that TS.
3)  Drop every even table just created.
4)  Extend one of the remaining tables until you can't.

Depending on the size of the TS created and the blocksize, you could have a
situation where there's enough freespace in the TS, but not contiguous.
Thus, fragmentation.

Granted, this is isn't a typical case, but over a year or two, I could see
it happening here.

Maybe I'll install 9iR2 at home tonite to try this...<sigh>


Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:10 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: locally managed autoallocate (was: Separate Indexes and
> Data)
> 
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jesse, Rich
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:49 AM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: RE: locally managed autoallocate (was: Separate 
> Indexes and
> > > Data)
> > > 
> > > Theoritically, perhaps, but what if an existing table needs
> > > to auto-extend
> > > at 1M and all that's left in the table is 16 (or whatever) 
> > 
> > (blush)  Obviously, that's supposed to say "left in the tableSPACE".
> 
> 9.0.1 'unable to allocate extent'
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Niall>sqlplus niall/niall
> 
> SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Oct 2 21:59:45 2003
> 
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> 
> Connected to:
> Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
> JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
> 
> SQL> create tablespace test_auto
>   2  datafile 'c:\oracle\oradata\home9i\test_auto.dbf' size 1152k
>   3  extent management local;
> 
> Tablespace created.
> 
> SQL> create table t1(n number,charcol char(200))
>   2  tablespace test_auto
>   3  ;
> 
> Table created.
> 
> SQL> select count(*) from dba_extents where segment_name='T1';
> 
>   COUNT(*)
> ----------
>          1
>
 
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