Re: huge datafiles/need help

Thank you everyone who replied. All suggestions were very helpful. I am bebuilding my indexes in a different tablespace. It runs very very slow.. ----- Original Message -----
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:51 PM

> Lyuda;
> 1. Create a new tablespace for the indexes on a seperate drive. Make
sure
> you do this with a much more reasonable datafile size. (Watch it here
....
> maybe they did the big size because they were running out of possible
files
> -- see the max_datafiles parm on the Create Database command)
> 2. Rebuild the indexes over into the new tablespace. Make sure your
> initial paramater fits in the initial size of the data files.
> 3. Drop your old Index Tablespace.
>
> As for your ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE .... RESIZE ... goes; thats what
happens
> when you use all your space. I would suggest at some point to take an
> outage and reorg that tablespace containing the table as well to get its
> files down in to a resonably managed size.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 2:45 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi List,
> I have a monster tablespace 36 G with two datafiles 32 G and 4 G. Don't
ask
> me who created such a file because I don't know. I am trying to rescue
the
> database that has multiple problems. Something you've never seen before.
> Bye the way, did anyone ever run a test how much stuff you can put on your
> disc before it dyes? Well, yesterday I found a disc which was 99.07 %
full.
> Anyway...
> The tablespace is ~ 50 % free. The bad news is it doesn't let me to
reduce
> the size of the datafiles by using 'alter database datafile ...
resize...';.
> That tablespace contains 32 indexes. Some of them are as large as
600 -800
> M. I need to develop a plan of attack.
> My options are:
> 1) drop and recreate the indexes;
> 2) rebuild the indexes in different tablespace/tablespaces;
> 3) export/import indexes or may be even tablespace all at once.
>
> Is there anyone who has done something similar before?
> All suggestions are greatly appreciated. That database is screaming for
> help!!
> It running Oracle 8.1.6 on NT.
>
> Lyuda Hoska
>
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