If you have an "over burdened" DD, (FET$, UET$, FILE$, TSQ$, etc.) drops even of LMTs things can be painful. SJHussain, I'd wager you're on an old version of the db, yes? -----Original Message----- From: Connor McDonald [mailto:hamcdc@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:03 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: DROP LMT TBS internals. LMT's should drop extremely quickly...assuming its empty. If you've got objects in there, then the dictionary tables for the objects need to be updated. Even if the tspace is empty, if you've got quotas assigned, then the TSQ$ dictionary table needs to be updated as the tablespace is dropped. Cheers Connor --- SJHussain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Hello List, > > If I am dropping a LMT Tablespace and it takes a long time, how can I > know that the process is running, not hanged. Can anyone let me know > what are the internal functionality of drop tablespace. I know that we > can check fet$ for DMT TBS, how about LMT TBS? > > ===== Connor McDonald Co-author: "Mastering Oracle PL/SQL - Practical Solutions" ISBN: 1590592174 web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk web: http://www.oaktable.net email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx Coming Soon! "Oracle Insight - Tales of the OakTable" "GIVE a man a fish and he will eat for a day. But TEACH him how to fish, and...he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day" ------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l