but if the load is a one time thing (as he described) then the
allocation hit happens only once and I still don't see a benefit and in
fact can see how it might hurt -- tablespace fragmentation etc

I'd rather see large extents but more of them


--- Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rachel Carmichael wrote:
> > 
> > > An example:  Think of load a lot of data into a table, and then
> load
> > > on a  very limited basis.   This tells me to create a large first
> > >extent that  everything can fit into.
> > 
> > why? there is no benefit to that
> > 
> 
> Rachel,
> 
>    No benefit when the data is loaded, but there is justification to
> it
> if it avoids extent allocations during the load - at least for a
> dictionary managed tablespace.
> 
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