Re: How to coalesce an LMT TS to drop extra datafiles?

  • From: Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx List" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:37:14 -0700

resending because of over quoting

On 2013-02-01, at 8:35 AM, Wolfgang Breitling wrote:

> Provided you have the space ( temporarily ) and no long columns, creating a 
> new tablespace, moving all segments from the old to the new ( lobs need to be 
> moved on their own ) and dropping the old. Optionally renaming the new to the 
> old if tablespace names are important.
> 
> On 2013-02-01, at 8:15 AM, Rich Jesse wrote:
> 
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> In 11.2.0.3.0, we're archiving older data.  This first phase will include
>> deleting (archiving) about 4 years of data.  Ongoing archiving will then
>> delete the oldest 6 months of data.  Since our DB grows very linearly, I
>> expect table sizes to be very stable from then on.
>> 
>> Is there any way short of moving massive numbers segments out of the TS to
>> tell Oracle I'd like to drop datafiles?  There's about 3400 tables that have
>> their respective extents intermingled in those datafiles, with ~3100 of them
>> being a single extent in the first datafile.

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