The answer is in my book. Assume your original setting for pctfree is correct, by the time rows are full length, they are filling the block. If any rows are still part-grown, there will be the right amount of space left in the block for them to grow. If all the rows are new, there will be plenty of space to grow.
Inherently there is a 'right number' of rows that will fit a block when full grown. Set the hakan factor to this, and when you move the table, each block will get exactly the right number of rows, with exactly the right amount of space left for any rows that need to grow to full size. (However, due to a bug in the Hakan-related code, you have to fiddle the Hakan factor by one for some functionality, as it is stored as N-1, rather than N - and some code uses N, some uses N-1 when working out how many rows go into a block. Details are in the book). Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:54 AM Good point about pctfree, but how could minimize records_per_block help in this case? I´ve used it for optimizing bitmap indexes, but for table moving? Tanel. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
