What can be the maximum size of Data file [message #532814] |
Thu, 24 November 2011 22:14 |
saikumar_mudigonda
Messages: 23 Registered: June 2008 Location: hyderabad
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All,
I am having I/O issues if i create 20 GB DATAFILES on SMALL TABLE SPACE.
can you please guide me with the maximum size limit of data file that I can create in Windows 2003 32 bit server.
thanks,
Sai Kumar
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Re: What can be the maximum size of Data file [message #532831 is a reply to message #532814] |
Fri, 25 November 2011 01:23 |
John Watson
Messages: 8964 Registered: January 2010 Location: Global Village
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32G if you use 8K blocks, 64G if you are using 16K blocks, and so on. That is the DB_BLOCK_SIZE, not the file system block size. The limit comes from the structure of the ROWID. Big file tablespaces use a different rowid structure, and the limit is astronomical.
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