Kbase P96688: What is the benefit of fixed-length database extents?
Autor |
  Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
Acesso |
  Público |
Publicação |
  10/16/2008 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
Can I control the amount of disk space each database extent will use ?
FIX:
Yes. Fixed-length extents have a pre-allocated length defining the amount of disk space each extent will use. Fixed-length extents extend control when an extent is changed.
If you use variable-length after-image extents Progress can not anticipate when an extent becomes full.