Re: Weird Objects in DBA_SEGMENTS

From: Riyaj Shamsudeen <riyaj.shamsudeen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:45:33 -0500
Message-ID: <203315c10804161045r266cb887hd6cc46c2873d29be@mail.gmail.com>


They are recycle bin objects. Query dba_recyclebin to see them..

Thanks
Riyaj

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:42 PM, April Wells <awells_at_netspend.com> wrote:

> 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
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> ALTER TABLE <table> move tablespace <tablespace>;
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> It "appeared" clean… nothing in dba_tables or dba_indexes.
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> However, my life can't be that simple.
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> The paranoid dba on my left shoulder urged me to look at dba_segments… so
> I did.
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> select owner, segment_name, partition_name, tablespace_name, segment_type
> from dba_segments where tablespace_name = 'STAGEDAT01';
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> there are a bunch of segments named similar to
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> BIN$Rxl0mZVtGWjgRAADupYzGQ==$0
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> They "apparently" are tables and indexes.
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> There are, however, apparently no actual extents… because
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> select * from dba_extents where tablespace_name = 'STAGEDAT01';
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> returns only the plan table that I want to drop anyway
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> anyone have any ideas on what these BIN segments are?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> ajw
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