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RE: Can't Reduce System Tablespace Datafile Size

From: Rachel Carmichael <carmichr_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:24:01 -0000
Message-Id: <10745.127055@fatcity.com>


locally managed system tablespace was not available until release 8.1.7 I believe....

>From: "Trivedi, Hitarth" <HTrivedi_at_telergy.net>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: Can't Reduce System Tablespace Datafile Size
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:50:59 -0800
>
>You are right, now I remember that feature. But looking into manuals (admin
>guide and concepts)
>reveal that,
>
>----------------------
>The LOCAL option of the EXTENT MANAGEMENT clause specifies this method of
>space management in various CREATE commands:
>
>For the SYSTEM tablespace, you can specify EXTENT MANGEMENT LOCAL in the
>CREATE DATABASE command. If the SYSTEM tablespace is locally managed, other
>tablespaces in the database can be dictionary-managed but you must create
>all rollback segments in locally-managed tablespaces.
>
>For a permanent tablespace other than SYSTEM, you can specify EXTENT
>MANGEMENT LOCAL in the CREATE TABLESPACE command.
>
>For a temporary tablespace, you can specify EXTENT MANGEMENT LOCAL in the
>CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE command. (See "Temporary Tablespaces".)
>--------------------------
>
>so locally managed system tablespace is possible!!
>
>- Hitarth
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:12 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>I'm sure you are referring to locally managed tablespaces which you
>cannot use for the system tablespace.
>
>- Brian
>
>--- "Trivedi, Hitarth" <HTrivedi_at_telergy.net> wrote:
> > I had similar problem in past ad I too could no get any solution. But
> > Oracle
> > claimed that they had changed the tablespace structure in 8i entirely
> > such
> > that it is less prone to such kind of fragmentation. Anybody has any
> > idea
> > about it?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hitarth Trivedi
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 7:51 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Fyi
> >
> > On my test server, the 8i release 2 database (8.1.6.) also has a 240M
> > system
> > tablespace, that could be the default for the sample database it
> > creates
> > when using the installation GUI tool.
> >
> > If you are really concerned about wasted space you can try to shrink
> > it to
> > progressively smaller file sizes, but Oracle will refuse to do it as
> > soon as
> > you are trying to "reduce" a block that is in use. This doesn't mean
> > there
> > won't be any empty holes inside the tablespace, because fragmentation
> > does
> > occur. I always like to leave empty space inside SYSTEM, if that
> > tablespace
> > fills up you could be in big trouble. (/begin rant Moving the
> > sys.aud$
> > table was for that reason! What is Oracle doing.... /end rant)
> >
> > I know money is tight, but you have to leave at least some leeway in
> > there.
> >
> > My Canadian CDN$0.02. Which is just about 2/3 of 1 cent American.
> > Ah,
> > where did the CDN$1.10 go? <g>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrice Boivin
> > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
> >
> > Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
> > Technology Services | Services technologiques
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> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Leith [SMTP:mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 6:16 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: Can't Reduce System Tablespace Datafile Size
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > I'm a little confused.. You say that the SYSTEM tablespace has 50
> > gig used
> > space, yet you are trying to resize it to around a single gig! This
> > kind of
> > makes that error seem pretty reasonable huh? Why not try resizing it
> > to a
> > couple of gig over the 50 that you already have?
> >
> > Also, is a 50 gig SYSTEM tablespace normal? Sorry if this is naive..
> > lol..
> > Here I am sat on my test system, with around a 240M SYSTEM
> > tablespace,
> > thinking it is a little large considering the actual database is
> > around a
> > 1/4 of that!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 04:08
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > On one of my databases, the SYSTEM tablespace has about 2 GB free
> > space, and
> > just over 50 GB used space. I am trying to reduce the size of the
> > datafile
> > using "alter database datafile
> > 'F:\oracle\oradata\TelusDB16bit\SYSTEM01.DBF'
> > resize 1024M", but receive the error message ORA-03297: file
> > contains used
> > data beyond requested RESIZE value. I assume this happens becasue
> > part of
> > the used space is towards the end of the data file.
> >
> > If this were a non-SYSTEM tablespace, I could reduce the size of the
> > datafile by exporting the data, dropping users, resizing the
> > datafile, then
> > importing the data. However, this won't work for SYSTEM, because
> > SYS
> > objects cannot be exported. Only SYS, SYSTEM, and OUTLN own
> > segments in the
> > SYSTEM tablespace.
> >
> > Does anybody know how I can reduce the size of the SYSTEM tablespace
> > (short
> > of recreating the database)? Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > The database is Oracle 8.1.6 on Windows NT 4.0.
> >
> > Sam Bootsma, OCP
> > Technical Support Analyst
> > CPAS Systems Inc.
> > 416-422-0563 x237
> > samb_at_cpas.com
> > http://www.cpas.com
> >
> >
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