Re: Space explanation

Delete or rollback do not free space. There are ways to free space: * truncate

• alter table compact
• alter table move
• drop table
• mkfs It is perfectly possible to have 32GB table consuming the entire tablespace. That is known as "agile methodology" because it forces the DBA to be agile and keep checking space.Regards On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 11:21 -0500, Ram Raman wrote:
  > Hi
  >
  > I created a table for testing and inserting rows into it when the
  > insert process failed as the tablespace reached maximum limit of 32G
  > - that happened couple of days ago. However, there are no rows in the
  > table, but space occupied shows as real high with the tablespace
  > itself full. Does anyone have an idea? There are couple of other
  > tables in the tablespace but they occupy just few 100 blocks. 12c
  >
  > 1 select table_name, NUM_ROWS, last_analyzed, blocks from
  > dba_tables
  > 2* where table_name = upper('wvce')
  > 11:14:17 SQL> /
  >
  > TABLE_NAME NUM_ROWS LAST_ANAL BLOCKS
  > ------------------------ -------------------- --------- ----------
  > WVCE 0 03-MAY-20 3444463
  >
  > Elapsed: 00:00:00.09
  > 11:14:17 SQL>
  > 11:14:28 SQL> select count(*) from WVCE ;
  >
  > COUNT(*)
  > --------------------
  > 0
  >
  > Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
  > 11:14:35 SQL>
  > --
  >
  > Thanks
  > Ram
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