RE: view contents of datafile

From: Hand, Michael T <HANDM_at_polaroid.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:26:06 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00348BE0.20010712081036@fatcity.com>

Joe,

I am reading between the lines here, so bear with me. I think you will be disappointed with the results. Oracle (8.0.x at least) will assign extents in a round robin fashion across all online datafiles in a tablespace. All three files will have some extents in them. The only solution (well, there may be others) is to include a step to drop and recreate the tablespace after the export. And, assuming you export with compress=y, you can create empty tables in the rebuilt tablespace, and know before you import rows if the tablespace is large enough.

Mike Hand
Polaroid Corp.

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If my tablespace became so big that it had 3 datafiles and became so fragmented, then I export and import the whole databse, how can I tell if the REORG only used up one or two datafiles.

OR is there a utility to see contents of a datafile?

Joe
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