Hi , I've received a two interesting questions from a collage of mine. 1) If two processes are writing to the same file , will they suffer from some conation on the file handler ? Do you think that spreading very busy tables (has a lot of inserts from different sessions) on different tablespaces (which will be translate to different data files ) will have better I/O performance over one single data file ? I'm talking only from performance perspective , not from backup & recovery ? 2) If we have tablespaces with several data files . Will oracle allocate extents in a round-robin fashion between the files or will he fill one data file and then pass to the another data file ? Amihay Gonen DBA,