> > Mathias, I am seeing unencrypted customer data that used to be unencrypted, > but is now encrypted in the system tablespace, and vice versa, sys segment > data in all datafiles. I believe a new thread has begun documenting how or > even why that occurs named "Ghost Data" but it is simply reproducible. > > We have considered online redefinition, and that would work, except for it > doesn't work on the system tablespace. We may still be able to use it in a > multistep strategy of sorts. > > You are right about the data living on the physical disk long after it > doesn't logically belong to the database. For that, we are using EMC storage > array currently, which I hardly know in detail, just in concept. I will have > to rely on our system admins to clean the physical disks properly. > >