Autoextend allows me to get sick, snowed in, or overwhelmed by user/management demands for attention. Even with autoextend, a DBA must monitor tablespace/data file usage to maintain situational awareness. f/r, Gus On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Yechiel Adar <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You are mostly right. > I prefer to extend, rather then auto extend, my data files except for > special cases. > > It is more troubling as I do not know of a tool that take into account both > auto extend and the host file system and gives a warning that if you auto > extent to the limit you will fill up the available space on the file system. > > Adar Yechiel > Rechovot, Israel > > > > > De DBA wrote: > >> Auto-extend is just a feel-good marketing tool, imho. >> >> >> -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >