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Re: How can i change the MAXEXTENTS ??

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:46:05 GMT
Message-ID: <35d2f912.21296672@192.86.155.100>


A copy of this was sent to ashesh48_at_my-dejanews.com (if that email address didn't require changing) On Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:17:33 GMT, you wrote:

>Hi All, I got into the problem with the MAXEXTENTS of the table. It has
>reached to its maxlevel of the 121/121. How can I increase it?? Has anybody
>know the syntex for it ? How it affects to performace? And what is the
>recommanded number oof extents for a table??
>
>Thanx for any help in advance.
>Ashesh
>
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What version of Oracle? Try:

SQL> alter table <TNAME> storage ( maxextents unlimited );

or use some other number in place of unlimited.

As long as your extent size is a multiple of your db_file_multiblock_read_count, having 1, 100 or 1000 (or more) extents is pretty much the same.  

Thomas Kyte
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