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. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l