RE: 32K block size tablespace for indexes

        Tom Kyte wrote in his book that multiple blocksizes are intended only 
for Transportable Tablespace between databases with different blocksizes, 
period. 
        I, personally, agree with this. Of course, there might be some extreme 
cases on databases with mixed workloads, where there are some OLAP-like  parts 
and some extreme OLTP parts. But in most cases the administration overhead is 
much bigger than the performance benefit. You can easily end up with over- or 
undersized db_XXk_cache_size and the database can't do anything about it. Then 
the performance will be better in some parts of the day and worse later on. 
        But... never say never. Maybe your DB is that rare case where having 
multiple blocksizes helps a lot

Regards,
Yavor Ivanov


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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of hrishy
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:36 AM
To: Niall Litchfield
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 32K block size tablespace for indexes

Hi Niall

Thanks for the reply after going through the thread its sounds like the 
pereceived benfit by moving to a large block size must be thoroughly tested its 
no gaurantee that performance will improve.

I was wundering why did oracle come out with multiple block size feature 
considering that in my whole carrer as a DBA i have used large block size only 
for BLOB column storage and nothing else.

Is exadata the reason for large blocksize ?

regards
Hrishy


      
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