Re: locally managed tbs in 9i and extent sizes

Hi Rachel,

But until the "contiguous" extents get coalesced, they would be not be treated as contiguous by Oracle.

They indeed were the days... ;)

Cheers

Richard

> > more than the size of required extent. To know the largest available
> > contiguous chunk of space, use
> > ( select max(bytes) from dba_free_space where
> > tablespace_name='<tablespace name>'; )
>
>
> Actually that's not quite true, because it's possible for contiguous
> extents to be listed in dba_free_space as two separate entries,
> depending on when they were freed up and if they had been allocated at
> different times.
>
> you'd need to see if there is an entry where block_id = prior
> block_id+blocks
>
> back in the days before I used uniform extents, I had a script that
> generated a report of contiguous space by tablespce. I don't need it
> anymore, LMTs and uniform sizing has allowed me to stop worrying about
> having contiguous space available.
>

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