Re:ASSM and tablespace fragmentation

I suspect you mean allocation_type= 'SYSTEM' which is about the gradual changes in extent sizing as the object grows, rather than ASSM which is about using bitmaps in segment headers and at the start of extents to represent the state of blocks rather than using freelists.

If that's what you had in mind, then the following URL may be useful.

http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/autoallocate-and-px/

If this is what you were thinking of then you probably are better off with uniform extents as you know the size of the data and can set a sensible extent size.

Regards

Jonathan Lewis
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• Original Message -----
  > From: ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net
  > Subject: ASSM and tablespace fragmentation
  > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:51:07 +0000
  >
  > There was an article written a few years ago talking about certain cases where
  > you can have tablespace fragmentation when using ASSM. I think Niall
  > Litchfield wrote this(I could be wrong). I believe this was due to deletes. I
  > am not using deletes, but will be dropping alot of partitions and am wondering
  > whether I may have problems with this down the road. Here is my scenario.
  >
  > 1. initally go to production with 500 GB of data
  > 2. This will grow to between 25-50 TBs over 15 months.
  > 3. We will load 1/10th of the data/day into the database. So at 500GB we will
  > load 50 GBs/day at 25-50 TBs we will load 2.5 - 5 TBs/day.
  > 4. tables are partitioned by date with hourly partitions.
  > 5. We will drop partitions that are 10 days old.
  >
  > So we are recycling data every 10 days while our database size is growing.
  > Does this scenario have any risk of tablespace fragmentation with ASSM? We may
  > use ASM, but I don't think that matters in this case.
  >
  

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