| Author's name: Jonathan Lewis Author's Email: Jonathan@jlcomp.demon.co.uk |
Date written: 2nd Nov 2001 Oracle version(s): n/a |
| The purpose of the OPTIMAL option is to make sure that rollback segments shrink back to a known size automatically - but it doesn't seem to work properly on your system. Has something gone wrong. | |
This question is addressed by the following documents:
| Author | Title/URL | Suggested by | Referee's comments |
| Howard Rogers | When do rollback segments shrink ? | Jonathan Lewis | A short pdf file with an intelligent discussion of
the issues. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read this document. NOTE - The referenced site was closed down by Oracle Australia. in May 2002. This link has been maintained in case Howards gets permission to re-open the site. |
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