Hi Richard, Thanx again for ur explanation. I was able to recover it. Regards, Prem. >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Richard Foote >>Hi Prem, >> >>When you place a tablespace offline, Oracle attempts to >>perform a checkpoint on the datafiles associated with >>the tablespace to ensure it's consistent >>after it's offline (else how do you write the dirty blocks in >>memory after it's offline ?). >> >>The problem of course is that the datafile(s) is stuffed and >>the checkpoint can't be completed. >> >>Therefore you need to use the 'immediate' clause to let >>Oracle know that a checkpoint is not possible (or 'temporary' >>where Oracle will checkpoint what datafiles it can). >> >>The outstanding dirty blocks then get written to a deferred >>rollback segment and applied when the tablespace is recovered >>and brought back online. >>Cheers >>Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------