CHAPTER 3 Planning and Managing Tablespaces
How a DBA configures the layout of the tablespaces in a database directly affects the performance and manageability of the database. In this chapter, we’ll review the different types of tablespaces as well as how temporary tablespace usage can drive the size and number of tablespaces in a database leveraging the temporary tablespace group feature new to Oracle 10g.
We’ll also show how Oracle’s Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA), supported since Oracle 7, helps to standardize the directory structure for both Oracle executables and the database files themselves.
A default installation of Oracle provides the DBA with a good starting point, not only creating an OFA-compliant directory structure but also ...
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