Oracle Indexing

From: Sinard Xing <sinardyxing_at_bcs-ach.com.sg>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:48:18 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00422F75.20020307234818@fatcity.com>

Hi all,

Oracle said:
The best extent size of an index to minimize fragmetation is 5 times of db block size.

My question is why 5 times is the recommended size, why not 4 times or 6 times or perhaps 0.5 of your db block size.

Thanks

Sinardy

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