"David Jurke" <David.Jurke AT tnzi DOT com> writes:

> Basically, as I understand it, your first group of comments are
> about not backing up empty space, as per your example if there is
> only 10GB data in a 100GB data file. However, our database is
> growing rapidly, and our DBAs tend to allocate smaller tablespace
> files more frequently (rather than huge files seldom), so at any
> time there’s probably not more than 20 GB of unused space in the
> database files, which is less than 10% of our database currently,
> and the % will only decrease. So yes there would be a benefit, but
> not huge.

presumably the empty space will also compress very well.

-- 
regards,          | Redpill  _
Kjetil T. Homme   | Linpro  (_)


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