On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:12:25 -0500, Subbiah, Nagarajan <Nagarajan.Subbiah@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is the Uniform allocation has any advantageous than SYSTEM allocation type? > Does the SYSTEM allocation type has any issues? > > Raja. With uniform allocation you cannot get free space fragmentation problems, with system managed you can (but are unlikely to). With uniform allocation if you guess^H^H^H^H calculate the segment size wrongly you can end up with very large or very small numbers of extents. I prefer and have long advocated uniform extent sizing, others have advocated a system policy. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l