conntiguous, logical or physical

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They might be logically contiguous within Oracle, but physicaly (on disk) they are almost certain not to be. That's one of the reasons why the benefits of small number of extents in nonsense

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hi, just want to clarify the above. When oracle wants a new extent, all it needs is a free contiguous logical extent and doesnt matter whether this is contiguous on the physical side of things ?

thanks

as long as the space is logically contiguos it's fine for Oracle