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How to estimate a table row space usage before populating it?

edited Jul 4, 2014 5:00AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 6 commentsAnswered

Hello,

I know this kind of questions have been asked a hundred of times before, but a colleague of mine is surprised that there doesn't seem to exist an Oracle ready-made script to anticipate the space usage that tables will occupy in the DB.

I'm not asking about the actual table size, but rather for a way to anticipate how much space the tables will need. Suppose I create my empty data model from an empty DB, and now I want to know roughly how much space will be needed by each of these tables.

The closest note I could find is:

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