RE: Weird Objects in DBA_SEGMENTS

From: April Wells <awells_at_netspend.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:07:28 -0500
Message-ID: <BBD07BC523CBB0408182AD21A22EFD5C01F1F981@corp-exchange01.corp.netspend.com>


RATHER annoying? Eesh.  

Yeah, on 10g and I thought I disabled this feature on the warehouse. Apparently not.  

Thanks!  


From: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
[mailto:Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:55 PM To: April Wells; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Weird Objects in DBA_SEGMENTS  

April,  

Log onto the segment owner via sqlplus and issue a "purge recyclebin" command. Thse will go away.  

You didn't say - but you are 10g. Now when you drop anything, it goes into the recyclebin.

Rather annoying if you ask me!

Tom  


From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of April Wells Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:42 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Weird Objects in DBA_SEGMENTS

I have spent the morning cleaning out a tablespace in an attempt to reclaim 800 GB of space and clean up my production data warehouse. To this end... I ran a BUNCH of  

ALTER TABLE <table> move tablespace <tablespace>;  

It "appeared" clean... nothing in dba_tables or dba_indexes.  

However, my life can't be that simple.  

The paranoid dba on my left shoulder urged me to look at dba_segments... so I did.  

select owner, segment_name, partition_name, tablespace_name, segment_type from dba_segments where tablespace_name = 'STAGEDAT01';  

there are a bunch of segments named similar to  

BIN$Rxl0mZVtGWjgRAADupYzGQ==$0  

They "apparently" are tables and indexes.  

There are, however, apparently no actual extents... because

select * from dba_extents where tablespace_name = 'STAGEDAT01';

returns only the plan table that I want to drop anyway  

anyone have any ideas on what these BIN segments are?  

Thanks in advance.

ajw  


 

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