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| | Super-Sizing A Database: Oracle 10g Tablespace Enhancements |
 | | Tablespaces live in that lonely place between the physical raw data contained in their datafiles and the myriad logical objects whose structure they organize, manage, and control: tables, indexes, and LOBs, to name just a few. |
 | | A tablespace is limited to a maximum of 65,536 (64K) datafiles, but each datafile's size had been limited by the maximum OS file size. |
 | | Since BIGFILE tablespaces are allowed to own only one datafile, there is now a one-to-one correspondence between tablespace and datafile, and database space management actually becomes much simpler because all space management operations that were only limited to datafiles now extend automatically to BIGFILE tablespaces. |
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