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[Q] How can I tell RDBMS engine to start the coalescent

From: Peter A. Udom <paudom_at_PTES.COM>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:00:01 -0800
Message-Id: <9601170234.AA02818@alice.jcc.com>

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salutations;
i gather you can alter session set events 'immediate trace name coalesce level tablespace#';
where ts# is value in sys.ts$.
best of luck let us know if it works for U.

peter

>>> ~{VwHN~} Wang <eleeb0p_at_MENUDO.UH.EDU> 01/16 7:32 am >>>
Hi everyone,

Is there a way to force ORACLE to coalesce the free space?

I know in the 7.0 you can set event to do that. How about the 7.1 or 7.2?

I experienced some weired problem. When I droped an index I can not recreate that index using same creating scripts. ( Off cause the data itself only has little change ). But after a while let's say 30 minutes I can create the index again using the same scripts.

I report that to ORACLE, guess what? What they tell me is I should not drop the index and recreate it normally if I really want to do that I have to leave at least 50% indexes tablespace free.

Unbelievable!!

There are Two problem involved here, one is the RDBMS does not coalesce free space in time, the other is sometimes RDBMS will leave a temporary segment in the index tablespace( NOT the temp tablespace, sitting there until next coalesce event happens)!
Off cause the representative I talked with did not admit that is a Oracle Bug. We have some batch job running every night need to reload some tables I drop the index recreate it after loaded. Now I have to get up every night to rerun the scripts.

Any people here please give me a help. How can I tell RDBMS please start the damned coalescing process right now?

TIA, --



Michael S. Wang
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Received on Tue Jan 16 1996 - 21:34:20 CST

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