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> 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.
The current thinking is that uniform extents are a good thing.
So in 7.3, try and "manually" enforce uniform extents:
initial = next for all clusters/tables/indexes in the same tablespace
pctincrease=0 for all objects
These should of course be the settings for the DEFAULT STORAGE clause on the create tablespace. Then to create a cluster/table/index you can (should?) use tablespace defaults and skip the storage parameter on the CREATE cluster/table/index statement.
My personal opinion: always use maxextents unlimited but put your object in a tablespace where the values of INITIAL and NEXT will prevent the object from having more than 1000 extents.
Autoextend datafiles: my personal opinion is don't use those, because you should have an idea of how and when your database is going to grow, and if you need more space it's nice to be aware of it. Of course this means the risk of failure when a datafile is full, but the same thing can happen with autoextend when the disk gets full.
