Robyn I'm not sure what you are asking, so I may not be responding to your question. I don't recall the "Stop Defragmenting . . ." paper recommended anything other than LMT. After reading that paper, I was wondering which variety of LMT to use and I found a page on Oracle's Web site that stated that Oracle recommended LMT with uniform extents. Probably long disappeared. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robyn Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:02 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Stop defragmenting and start ... Hello, Can someone tell me when uniform extent sizing became a recommended practice? The 'Stop defragmenting and Start Living' paper has a copyright date of 1998, and I remember implementing it on some databases back in 1999, but I was wondering if it there were earlier references to this approach. Robyn ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------