You can use DBMS_REDEFINITION <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_redefi.htm> . On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Yong Huang <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Is there any reason why it's not the default in 11g? One user asked me and > I don't know a good answer. > > I'm convinced of its advantage and will set db_securefile to always on all > our databases. Thanks. > > Yong > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Kevin Jernigan <kevin.jernigan@xxxxxxxxxx> > *To:* coloradodba@xxxxxxxxx; Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> > *Cc:* Oracle-l Digest Users <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > *Sent:* Friday, February 6, 2015 5:16 PM > *Subject:* Re: Relocating LOB segment > > There are no known edge cases where BasicFiles works better than > SecureFiles, other than MSSM tablespaces. This is one of the reasons we > made SecureFiles the default starting in Oracle Database 12c. > > -KJ > > -- > Kevin Jernigan > Senior Director Product Management > Advanced Compression, Hybrid Columnar > Compression (HCC), Database File System > (DBFS), SecureFiles, Database Smart Flash > Cache, Total Recall, Database Resource > Manager (DBRM), Direct NFS Client (dNFS), > Continuous Query Notification (CQN), > Index Organized Tables (IOT), Information > Lifecycle Management (ILM) > +1-650-607-0392 (o) > +1-415-710-8828 (m) > > On 2/6/15 7:57 AM, Brent Day wrote: > > > We actually set db_aecurefile parameter to always on all of our instances > and have only seen positive results. > > Of course the setting change only applies to newly created lobs after > the setting is changed. LOBs created before have to be converted through a > move/reorganize. > > Of course the tablespace has to be ASSM or you will get the respective > error. > > We own advanced compression and advanced security and the deduplicte > that come with advanced compression has proven very beneficial for several > of our apps. > > The Lob compression works very well and I have found medium compression > on LOBS to work well. I tried high but the CPU usage outweighed the benefit > for our needs. > > As always YMMV > > Brent > > On Friday, February 6, 2015, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If you are on 11.2 and use SecureFiles then you can export with > parallel > > It actually started at 11.1. > > Now I have a question. Can anybody think of anything bad about setting > db_securefile to always in Oracle 11g so all LOBs are created as SecureFile > instead of BasicFile? We're recommended to use SecureFile LOB (see Doc > 1467662.1 and many others), and it's the default in 12c. Other than the > restriction that SecureFile LOB can't be created in a non-ASSM i.e. MSSM > tablespace, I see only benefit, no disadvantage. Without the advanced > security or compression license, users have to be careful not to > accidentally add certain clauses to trigger usage of these licenses. But > that's a minor concern. > > Yong Huang > > > > > > -- *--* *BR* *Sumit Tyagi* *+91-7829543355*