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Re: locally managed tablespaces

From: JimmyN1 <jimmyn1_at_aol.com>
Date: 27 Jun 2001 03:13:14 GMT
Message-ID: <20010626231314.16353.00000070@ng-fn1.aol.com> 






This maybe why:  It seems that when you truncate the table, the space is not
reclaimed.




Oracle NOTE: 77635.1



PURPOSE



This article describes how to find out how many blocks are really being 
used within a table ie. are not empty.



SCOPE & APPLICATION



For DBA's needing to determine how many blocks within a table are
empty blocks.



How many blocks contain data (are not empty)




Each row in the table has pseudocolumn called ROWID.
This pseudo contains information about physical location
of the row in format 

                     block_number.row.file





If the table is stored in a tablespace which has one 
datafile, all we have to do is to get DISTINCT
number of block_number from ROWID column of this table.



But if the table is stored in a tablespace with more than one
datafile then you can have the same block_number but in 
different datafiles so we have to get DISTINCT number of 
block_number+file from ROWID.



The SELECT statements which give us the number of "really used"
blocks is below. They are different for ORACLE 7 and ORACLE 8 
because of different structure of ROWID column in these versions.



For ORACLE 7:



   SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT SUBSTR(rowid,15,4)||

                         SUBSTR(rowid,1,8)) "Used"
     FROM schema.table;






For ORACLE 8+:



  SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT 


         DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_BLOCK_NUMBER(rowid)||
         DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_RELATIVE_FNO(rowid)) "Used"


    FROM schema.table;


or



    SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT SUBSTR(rowid,1,15)) "Used"
    FROM schema.table;



You could ask why the above information could not be determined
by using the ANALYZE TABLE command. The ANALYZE TABLE command only 
identifies the number of 'ever' used blocks or the high water mark 
for the table.



What is the High Water Mark?




All Oracle segments have an upper boundary containing the data within
the segment. This upper boundary is called the "high water mark" or HWM.
The high water mark is an indicator that marks blocks that are allocated 
to a segment, but are not used yet. This high water mark typically bumps 
up at 5 data blocks at a time. It is reset to "zero" (position to the start
of the segment) when a TRUNCATE command is issued.  So you can have empty 
blocks below the high water mark, but that means that the block has been 
used (and is probably empty caused by deletes). Oracle does not move the 
HWM, nor does it *shrink* tables, as a result of deletes.  This is also 
true of Oracle8.  Full table scans typically read up to the high water mark.
 


Data files do not have a high water mark; only segments do have them. 
 


How to determine the high water mark




To view the high water mark of a particular table::
 


  ANALYZE TABLE <tablename> ESTIMATE/COMPUTE STATISTICS;



This will update the table statistics. After generating the statistics,
to determine the high water mark:



SELECT blocks, empty_blocks, num_rows


FROM   user_tables


WHERE table_name = <tablename>;



BLOCKS represents the number of blocks 'ever' used by the segment. 
EMPTY_BLOCKS represents only the number of blocks above the 'HIGH WATER MARK' 
.


Deleting records doesn't lower the high water mark. Therefore, deleting 
records doesn't raise the EMPTY_BLOCKS figure.



Let us take the following example based on table BIG_EMP1 which
has 28672 rows (Oracle 8.0.6):



SQL> connect system/manager


Connected.


SQL> SELECT segment_name,segment_type,blocks
  2> FROM dba_segments
  3> WHERE segment_name='BIG_EMP1';
SEGMENT_NAME                  SEGMENT_TYPE      BLOCKS      EXTENTS


----------------------------- ----------------- ----------  -------

BIG_EMP1                      TABLE                   1024      2


1 row selected.



SQL> connect scott/tiger



SQL> ANALYZE TABLE big_emp1 ESTIMATE STATISTICS;
Statement processed.


SQL> SELECT table_name,num_rows,blocks,empty_blocks
  2> FROM user_tables
  3> WHERE table_name='BIG_EMP1';
TABLE_NAME                     NUM_ROWS   BLOCKS     EMPTY_BLOCKS


------------------------------ ---------- ---------- ------------

BIG_EMP1                            28672        700        323


1 row selected.



Note: BLOCKS + EMPTY_BLOCKS (700+323=1023) is one block less than 
DBA_SEGMENTS.BLOCKS. This is because one block is reserved for the 
segment header. DBA_SEGMENTS.BLOCKS holds the total number of blocks 
allocated to the table. USER_TABLES.BLOCKS holds the total number of
blocks allocated for data.


SQL> SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT 
  2>          DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_BLOCK_NUMBER(rowid)||
  3>          DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_RELATIVE_FNO(rowid)) "Used"
  4> FROM big_emp1;
Used      


----------

       700




1 row selected.



SQL> DELETE from big_emp1;


28672 rows processed.



SQL> commit;


Statement processed.



SQL> ANALYZE TABLE big_emp1 ESTIMATE STATISTICS;
Statement processed.


SQL> SELECT table_name,num_rows,blocks,empty_blocks
  2> FROM user_tables
  3> WHERE table_name='BIG_EMP1';
TABLE_NAME                     NUM_ROWS   BLOCKS     EMPTY_BLOCKS


------------------------------ ---------- ---------- ------------

BIG_EMP1                                0        700        323


1 row selected.


SQL> SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT 
  2>          DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_BLOCK_NUMBER(rowid)||
  3>          DBMS_ROWID.ROWID_RELATIVE_FNO(rowid)) "Used"
  4> FROM big_emp1;
Used      


----------

         0




1 row selected.



SQL> TRUNCATE TABLE big_emp1;


Statement processed.



SQL> ANALYZE TABLE big_emp1 ESIMATE STATISTICS;
Statement processed.


SQL> SELECT table_name,num_rows,blocks,empty_blocks
  2> FROM user_tables
  3> WHERE table_name='BIG_EMP1';
TABLE_NAME                     NUM_ROWS   BLOCKS     EMPTY_BLOCKS


------------------------------ ---------- ---------- ------------

BIG_EMP1                                0          0        511


1 row selected.



SQL> connect system/manager


Connected.


SQL> SELECT segment_name,segment_type,blocks
  2> FROM dba_segments
  3> WHERE segment_name='BIG_EMP1';
SEGMENT_NAME                  SEGMENT_TYPE      BLOCKS      EXTENTS


----------------------------- ----------------- ----------  -------

BIG_EMP1                      TABLE                   512      1


1 row selected.



Note: TRUNCATE has also deallocated the space from the deleted rows.
To retain the space from the deleted rows allocated to the table use:


     TRUNCATE TABLE big_emp1 REUSE STORAGE
.
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