Re: Extents, Blocks, etc. - can anyone point me to help?

Like everybody already said(good answers): First things First. I've started with it. Oracle Server Concepts Manual. It's free and come with any Oracle 7.X Try to print it out

In article <3401FF3C.64F_at_utopia.com>, srakov_at_utopia.com says...
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>Hi,
>
>I've had a lot of trouble lately with Oracle extents and blocks. None of
>the books I've seen on the subject seem to make any sense to me. Can
>anyone point me to a good one, or to an FAQ about the topic? What are
>extents, how do they work, what do they do; what are blocks, what size
>are they, and how does one manage tables that are running into their
>maximum number of extents? How do table extents differ from tablespace
>extents? Where are they related?
>
>You can see that I'm a little confused. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated, particularly help that would point me to a resource that
>would explain all of this. I've tried "Oracle Unleashed," "The Oracle
>DBA Survival Guide" and "Tuning PL/SQL" all to no avail, although the
>"DBA Survival Guide" is a good book. It's just not explaining things
>simply enough.
>
>Thanks very much for any information.
>
>yours,
>Simon Rakov
>USWeb Utopia
Received on Wed Aug 27 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT