What is an Extent ?

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What is an Extent ?..

Answer / orawhiz

An Extent is a specific number of contiguous data blocks,
obtained in a single allocation, used to store a specific
type of information

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What is an Extent ?..

Answer / mahima

it is basic unit of storage space for table and index. it
allocate s0pace for table and index row data.its having 8
64k datapages.

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What is an Extent ?..

Answer / nishi

An extent is a contiguous area of storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range. A file can consist of zero or more extents; one file fragment requires one extent.

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