Dear Sinardy, Freelist Groups is for Oracle Parallel Server or RAC. It reduces contention on the segment header block, and reduce inter-instance "pinging", at the cost of excessive disk space consumption. Please refere Oracle Concepts guide for more details. Thanks and regards Raj On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:29:13 +0800, Sinardy Xing <sinardyxing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Why we need FREELIST GROUPS? > > What are the differents (in terms of advantages) between > > CREATE TABLE mytable STORAGE (FREELISTS 2); > > and > > CREATE TABLE mytable STORAGE (FREELISTS 4 FREELIST GROUPS 2); > > regards > Sinardy > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l