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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re:How to drop a datafile from a tablespace quickly
Tom,
Regrettably there is no way that you can drop a datafile from a tablespace. Your stuck with having to drop the entire tablespace. If you can export and import that's great. Otherwise try creating a new tablespace, copying the table (with a new name) into the new tablespace, dropping the original table and tablespace, and then rename the table back to it's old name. Don't forget the grants as well.
Dick Goulet
____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: "Xie; Tom" <TXie_at_taylorpub.com> Date: 5/15/2002 8:58 AM
Dear gurus:
I just added a data file to a big tablespace (11GB) that has only one table. Unfortunately, when it was being backed up, the file head head corrupted. I don't have any backup of this file. I found that there is no data in this file yet. So I want to drop the file from the tablespace. As I know, to drop a data file, I have to export the data, drop the tablespace and recreate it, and then import data back to the tablespace. However, since our users can't stop using the table, I won't have enough down time to do that.
Is there anyway I can quickly drop a data file from a tablespace?
Don't tell me using "alter database datafile '...' offline drop" command. It won't work.
I am working on Oracle 7.3.4.
Thanks,
Tom Xie
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