Voor Oracle 7/8 op NT :
Oracle V7:
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Oracle block size: 8 Kb
Maximum blocks per datafile: 4 million •
Maximum datafiles per database: 1022
Largest datafile: 32 Gb (assuming 8 Kb Oracle block size)
Largest database: 32 Tb (1022 * 32 GB)Oracle
Oracle V8:
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Oracle block size: 16 Kb
Maximum blocks per datafile: 4 million •
Maximum datafiles per database - depends on block size
20,000 datafiles for 2 Kb Oracle block size
40,000 datafiles for 4 Kb Oracle block size
65,536 datafiles for >= 8 Kb Oracle block size
Largest datafile: 64 Gb (assuming 16 Kb Oracle block size)
Largest database: 4 Pb (Petabytes)
In Oracle8, the maximum datafile size is 4,000,000 blocks (maximum we can have in a datafile on NT) times the db_block_size you are using. So an 8k block size would yield a maximum datafile size of 32GB. In your case 4k block size would yield a maximum datafile size of 16GB. In versions of Oracle older than 7.3 the maximum datafile size is 4GB. There is no recommended filesize in regards to limitations of the O/S.
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