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Greetings Given the march of time, the advance of technology and Moore's Law, I see more and more people, many of whom I have the utmost respect for, advocating that given a powerful enough machine and SAN, the need to Keep different file extents physicallys separate Use only fixed length extents has become somewhat dated. A good rule of thumb perhaps, especially for under-powered systems but no more than that. The arguments seem to be along the lines of : When you think you are putting extents on a particulr spindle, you are really just putting the whole lot in the SAN (somewhere) where it will be dealt (physically) with by the SAN and its cache. and The impact of growing a variable extent is now negligble I can see this being true of db and bi extents butthe idea of having your ai extents on the same "anything" as everything else still scares the proverbial out of me (okay, I'm old school). Comments please? Nigel.
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