A segment is a label that points to one or more database devices. Segment names are used in create table and create index commands to place tables or indexes on specific database devices. Using segments can improve Adaptive Server performance and give the System Administrator or Database Owner increased control over the placement, size, and space usage of database objects.
You create segments within a database to describe the database devices that are allocated to the database. Each Adaptive Server database can contain up to 32 segments, including the system-defined segments (see “System-defined segments”). Before assigning segment names, you must initialize the database devices with disk init and then make them available to the database with create database or alter database.
