Fw: huge datafiles/need help

I meant RRRREBUILDING. That is what a long day of slow rebuilding indexes can do to you.:-)

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:32 PM

> Thank you everyone who replied. All suggestions were very helpful. I am
> bebuilding my indexes in a different tablespace. It runs very very slow..
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>
>
> > 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
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> >
> >
> > 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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