Re: PCTFREE and PCTUSED

I have a hunch that it will fail on Oracle 8i and with the message like "SQL command not properly terminated", with the asterisk below the word "SEGMENT". It's just my intuition.

On 11/07/2003 03:04:31 PM, Maryann Atkinson wrote:
>
> >CREATE TABLESPACE DATA01
> >DATAFILE '\data01.dbf' size 8M reuse
> >AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 4096M MAXSIZE 32M
> >EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE
> >SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO
>
> Our prod sys is using 8i on solaris, but I quickly tried that on 9i
> on my own pc running on XP, before I go try it anywhere else,
> and it worked.
>
> thx
> maa
>
> At 01:59 PM 11/7/2003, you wrote:
> >On the other hand, you might have overallocated the space, which would
> >leave plenty of blocks on the free list, thus minimizing the impact.
> >These things are best seen on "almost full" tables with things like
> >row chaining, row migration, waits on ITL entries and other lovely
> >things. Looks like you've benn lucky so far. As I've told you before,
> >having tablespaces created with "SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO" option
> >takes care of that.
> >if your tablespace is created with a command like
> >
> >"CREATE TABLESPACE DATA01
> > DATAFILE '/data01/SID1/data01.dbf' size 8192M reuse
> > AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 4096M MAXSIZE 32769M
> > EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE
> > SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO"
> >
> >then you can create tables without any additional parameters and
> >everything will be kosher.
> >The tablespace above requires something called "large files support" from
> >the file system
> >and cannot be used on FAT file systems or ISO9660-RR/Joliet file system.
> >Practically anyhing
> >else (UFS,VxFS,ReiserFS,Ext(2|3),XFS,JFS,OCFS,NTFS (scheduled to go away
> >when the new virus
> >propagataion engine enters production)).
> >BTW, what OS and database version do you use?
>
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