thanks in case I happen to work on a 7.3 database....

what kind of pctincrease should I set? What about the other settings? Just curious. 

Ryan
> 
> From: "BALA,PRAKASH (HP-USA,ex1)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/03/21 Fri PM 12:54:41 EST
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces
> 
> Once you set to uniform extents, pctincrease will default to 0. 
> 
> Most Oracle gurus advise to just use uniform extents for all situations.
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> 
> This is probably pretty basic, so please keep in mind that Im a developer
> and Im trying to pick up more of the DBA side.
> 
> I am assuming that the preferred way to create a tablespace in 8i, 9i is as
> follows(this is out of OTN docs)
> 
> CREATE TABLESPACE lmtbsb DATAFILE '/u02/oracle/data/lmtbsb01.dbf' SIZE 50M
>     EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 128K;
> 
> 
> When you use Uniform Extents you know longer have to worry about tablespace
> fragmentation correct? You also do not need to worry minimum,initial,and
> next extents correct? 
> 
> What are some rules of thumb for setting PCTINCREASE(there is another PCT
> setting too right)? A DBA I used to work with said you should almost always
> use zero for PCTINCREASE. Could someone please tell me why? The default is
> like 40? 
> 
> Is there a time when I should not use Uniform Extents? 
> 
> Thanks... hope this isnt too basic.  
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