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Re: How do I move datafiles?

From: No Name <no_at_emain.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:48:17 -0000
Message-ID: <812kqj$o3p@news.csus.edu>

  1. Take the tablespace offline.
  2. Copy or move the datafile to new location
  3. ALTER TABLESPACE RENAME datafile
  4. Bring tablespace online
  5. Delete the old datafile.

Terry wrote in message <80uiti$dul$1_at_ezekiel.eunet.ie>...
>
>
>Hi all
>
>Sorry, but bit of a newbie question here:
>
>Due to disk space problems it is required to move some of our datafiles to
>new disks. I tried the following using 'Storage Manager' but failed:
>
>1. Take the tablespace where the datafiles are located offline (Normal
>offline)
>2. Copy the datafiles to the new disk
>3. Try to change the path location of the datafile
>
>All I achieved were Oracle errors telling me that it could not locate the
>datafile with the new path location. I am presuming there is some process
in
>place to achieve this but unfortunately I haven't had the chance to go on a
>Oracle DBA course to learn this info, and won't have the time in the
>foreseeable future.
>
>Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
>
>Terry Maguire
>IIU
>IFSC House
>Custom House Quay
>Dublin 1
>Ireland
>
>
Received on Thu Nov 18 1999 - 14:48:17 CST

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