Re: Datafile info.

  • From: Richard Ji <richard.c.ji@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jaehners@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:38:34 -0500

Did you also check DBA_TEMPFILES for it?
It could be a tempfile instead of a data file.
Otherwise, it's probably left there by an already dropped
tablespace.  Check the timestamp on that file.

Richard

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:38:17 -0500, Jaehne, Richard S
<jaehners@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All,=20
> 
> I've got a large (4G.) datafile  let's call him BIG.dbf on one of my =
> database servers that I'm not sure what's living in it. =20
> 
> I did run the following sql statement:
> 
> SQL> select TABLESPACE_NAME, BYTES, BLOCKS from DBA_DATAFILES
>     2    where FILE_NAME =3D '/oracle/dbs/BIG.dbf';
> 
> no rows selected
> 
> Does this mean that this is an empty file?  I'm a little puzzled.
> 
> Thanks,=20
> 
> Richard Jaehne
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