Subbiah, Nagarajan wrote: >Is the Uniform allocation has any advantageous than SYSTEM allocation type? >Does the SYSTEM allocation type has any issues? > >Raja. > > > Tablespaces with uniform allocation cannot be fragmented, while system allocation allows fragmentation. A case like that was constructed by Jonathan or Gopal, I believe. System allocation is allows only discrete and very finite extent sizes, but can be brought into state where no extents of larger sizes are left, which is what is known as "fragmentation" (although, strictly speaking, it is not fragmentation). -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l