I say choose what ever method fits your space management plan. We like uniform extends since we use raw partitions which for a practical purpose do not support auto-extending of the datafiles, but we have auto-allocate tablespaces supporting most of our vendor (third-party) products. With one exception where the product actually managed to create a free space fragmentation condition the feature works well. For that one product we converted the tablespace to using uniform extents and have not had an issue since. -- Mark D Powell -- Phone (313) 592-5148 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Rahn Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:59 PM To: peter.schauss@xxxxxxx Cc: Oracle L Subject: Re: Locally managed tablespaces - autoallocate vs. uniform I would highly recommend AUTOALLLOCATE. If you want bigger extents, just use a large INITIAL value (like 100-200MB). On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Schauss, R. Peter (IT Solutions)<peter.schauss@xxxxxxx> wrote: > If I could use the autoallocate option, it would simplify my task > considerably. Is there any disadvantage to doing so? -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l