I've got a newsgroup exchange saved from Tom Kyte around 1995/1996 suggesting lots of equally
sized extents, the only caveat being to make them quite large since 'maxextents unlimited' did not
exist yet.
Cheers
Connor
- Lex de Haan <lex.de.haan_at_naturaljoin.nl> wrote: > Robyn,
>
> I quickly checked my courseware archives,
> and for sure Cary Millsap talked about uniform extent sizes in 1996.
> to be more precise: he probably talked about this even before 1996,
> but my private collection does not contain any hard evidence :-)
>
> Kind regards,
> Lex.
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> Hello,
>
> Can someone tell me when uniform extent sizing became a recommended
> practice? The 'Stop defragmenting and Start Living' paper has a copyright
> date of 1998, and I remember implementing it on some databases back in
> 1999, but I was wondering if it there were earlier references to this
> approach.
>
> Robyn
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