Re: file sizes over 32GB

2003-11-09 Thread Tanel Poder
The honor should go to Steve Adams, I read it from his website. Tanel. And we do need education, because we do want to be bricks in the wall. You seem to know everything, so please, don't leave us alone. On 2003.11.07 12:49, Tanel Poder wrote: For reasons why, think about it from the

file sizes over 32GB

2003-11-07 Thread ryan_oracle
One of the guys here did some research and found that files over 32GB can cause data dictionary corruption. anyone have problems with this? we are using an automated transportable tablespace process with alot of logic and between many instances and servers. we would prefer not to complicate

Re: file sizes over 32GB

2003-11-07 Thread Nuno Souto
I think there was something in Metaclick about files in 32-bit OS's not being able to extend much over 32Gb, even with extensions. That's Unix flavours and 32-bit Windoze. Much larger than that and you are definitely in exclusive 64-bit territory. Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: file sizes over 32GB

2003-11-07 Thread Tim Gorman
Ryan, Oracle can certainly transport more than one datafile at a time. I'm not sure what you mean by the datafiles need to be 'atomic' to be transported, but it is certainly a limitation of the application logic, not Oracle. You could transport every single PERMANENT tablespace in a database

Re: file sizes over 32GB

2003-11-07 Thread Tanel Poder
For reasons why, think about it from the backup/restore perspective. Which database can be backed up or restored faster: one with 100 2Gb datafiles or one with 2 100Gb datafiles? Datafile management is just like extent management. As Roger Waters said, All in all, they're all just bricks

Re: file sizes over 32GB

2003-11-07 Thread Mladen Gogala
And we do need education, because we do want to be bricks in the wall. You seem to know everything, so please, don't leave us alone. On 2003.11.07 12:49, Tanel Poder wrote: For reasons why, think about it from the backup/restore perspective. Which database can be backed up or restored faster: