Thanks. Now all I need is to test this out by building an 8 exabyte database. Does anyone know where to find an inexpensive laptop with a 10 exabyte hard drive? >From: "Rognes, Sten" > >> maximum size of an Oracle database hasn't changed from version 9.2 >> Does anyone know any different? > >The bigfile tablespaces introduced in 10.1 increases the max size limits. >Bigfile tablespaces is a tablespace with a single file which can hold up to >(4 GB) blocks. I didn't bother doing the math, but according to the New >Features Guide this makes the max size for an Oracle database 8 exabytes. >http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B13789_01/server.101/b10750/cha pter1.htm#sthref558