OHTMFA (oracle has too many friggin' acronyms) What I've found (esp on metalink) is that someone is complaining about ASSM when they really mean AUM or ASM or autoallocate versus uniform size (not segment space management auto versus segment space management manual) The only issue I've actually seen documented regards ASSM is a storage issue in some versions with lob's. 'course, maybe I've missed something. Barb On 6/23/05, John Smiley <jrsmiley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I keep hearing claims that ASSM suffers performance problems under heavy DML > loads, but I can't find a single solid study that proves this. There are a > few isolated bugs documented in MetaLink that discuss problems under > specific circumstances, but nothing that speaks to a general performance > problem. Can anyone point me to some solid research > that demonstrates the problem? > > Thanks, > > John Smiley > Technical Management Consultant > TUSC, Inc. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l