Partition Description Dialog for Oracle Indexes for Tables and Materialized Views

The Partition Description dialog opens when you click on the Edit Properties column in the Partitions section of the Oracle Table Index Editor or the Oracle Materialized Views Index Editor Partitions tab.

The following describes the options available for the Partition Description dialog:

TABLESPACE

Lets you select a tablespace from the current model to which you assign storage properties. If you need to edit the properties of a tablespace you select, click the button to open the Oracle Tablespace Editor.

Extents

Lets you enter values for the following options:

INITIAL

Specify in bytes the size of the object's first extent.

NEXT

Specify in bytes the size of the next extent to allocate to the object.

PCTINCREASE

Specify the percent by which the third and subsequent extents grow over the preceding extent.

MINEXTENTS

Specify the total number of extents to allocate when the object is created.

Maxextents

Lets you specify the total number of extents, including the first, that Oracle can allocate for the object. Select one of the following options:

UNLIMITED
VALUE

Enter a value in the text box if you select this option.

Space Usage

Lets you enter a value for space usage:

PCTFREE

Specifies the limit Oracle should use to determine when additional rows can be added. The value of this parameter is expressed as a whole number and interpreted as a percentage.

Buffer Pool

Specifies to use a default buffer pool. Select one of the following options:

KEEP

Specifies to put blocks from the segment into the KEEP buffer pool.

RECYCLE

Specifies to put blocks from the segment into the RECYCLE buffer pool.

DEFAULT

Specifies to use the default buffer pool.

Number Transactions

Lets you enter values for the following options:

INITRANS

Lets you specify the initial number of concurrent update transactions allocated for data blocks.

MAXTRANS

Lets you specify the maximum number of concurrent update transactions allocated for data blocks.

Freelists

Lets you enter values for the following options:

FREELISTS

Lets you specify the number of free lists for each of the free list groups for the table, partition, cluster, or index.

FREE GROUPS

Lets you specify the number of groups of free lists for the database object you are creating.

Redo Log

Lets you select one of the following Redo Log options:

LOGGING
NO LOGGING
Compression

Lets you select one of the following Compression options.

NO COMPRESS
COMPRESS