... and the aswer is: yes, Oracle will ignore the storage clause when using LMTs with uniform extent sizes. that is, it will do the math to decide how many extents are needed initially, based on the storage clause, but that's it. cheers, Lex. Lex. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Kyte Seminar: http://www.naturaljoin.nl/events/seminars.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Smith, Ron L. Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 20:48 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Locally Managed Tablespaces We are upgrading an application that uses an external database to set=20 initial table create parameters. =20 I would like to use Locally Manages tablespaces and Uniform extent=20 sizes, instead of the table create parameters.=20 My question is, will Locally Manages tablespaces cause Oracle to ignore=20 the table create parameters? (I hope)=20 And, if I have some tables that are empty, and some that have a million=20 rows, what do I use for an initial extent size?=20 Do I allocate them all small and let the large tables go into extents?=20 I don't have the luxury of putting large tables in a separate=20 tablespace. Everything is in one schema and one tablespace.=20 Hope this is clear.=20 Thanks!=20 Ron=20 Important Notice!! If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, any use, = distribution or copying of the message is prohibited. Please let me know immediately by return e-mail if you have received = this message by mistake, then delete the e-mail message. Thank you. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l