I am also using bigfiles for anything that potentially could grow big, and *always* on ASM. It is sheer regret you feel when a big datawarehouse query sorts and you are manually adding smallfile datafiles. Frits Hoogland http://fritshoogland.wordpress.com mailto: frits.hoogland@xxxxxxxxx cell: +31-6-53569942 On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:17 PM, Eric Grancher wrote: > hello, > We have been using bigfile tablespace for years and have not faced specific > issues with them. > I recommend reading Niall's post > http://orawin.info/blog/2012/01/05/adding-datafiles/ > > cheers > Eric > > On 10 January 2012 03:09, G <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Does anyone have opinions/experience/preferences on bigfile tablespaces? I >> had someone ask recently, but I have always used smallfile tablespaces. >> >> Sent from my iPhone-- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l