RE: db block size

  • From: Paul Drake <discgolfdba@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:57:00 -0700 (PDT)

--- Pete Sharman <peter.sharman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You just don't.  Different block size tablespaces
> are there for transportab=
> le tablespaces only.  Absolutely zero benefit
> outside of that.
> 
> One day soon I hope this message spreads a bit more
> broadly.  Maybe we shou=
> ld put it in a FAQ somewhere.  :(
> 
> Pete

Pete,

I was planning on using a 2KB block size for tables
with a large amount of DML contention. Yes, a
re-design would be better, but in the short run (which
I'm sure that you dislike that phrase very much) we'd
have less concurrency issues if the rows were spread
over a larger number of blocks, while not using lots
more 8KB blocks to do so.

are you saying that there are no exceptions to the
"Absolutely zero benefits" clause above?

Paul

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