I am a little confused here.I thought that dba_segments contain information about space allocated to objects and dba_extents contain the information about the space allocation within each segments.
Now I find that: select * from dba_segments where header_file = 7; return no rows while: select * from dba_extents where file_id = 7; return some rows. So, I am switching to check dba_extents to clear space in datafiles. What is the purpose of dba_segments? Adar Yechiel Rechovot, Israel Yechiel Adar wrote:
I have a RAC on windows. Oracle 9206. OCFS. I have five datafiles that have nothing in them.I mean that select * from sys.seg$ where file# between 6 and 11 return nothing.When I tried to decrease the size of the datafiles I got: the file contain data beyond the space I want to decrease to. I thought that maybe there are some temporary segments but all the users use temp as their temporary tablespace.TIA
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