Do what though? What command can I issue to move extents in a tablespace?
Only thing I can think of is expor/drop/import. Since we're talking about
the data dictionary here, I'm not so sure dropping is possible.
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"Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Chuck wrote:
> >
> > Oracle 8.1.7.3.0
> >
> > Is it possible to reorg the system tablespace without recreating the
> > database?
> >
> > I recently discovered that my system tablespace had grown from 100m to
1.6g
> > because someone added 1.5g of rollback segments to it. I dropped the
> > rollback segments but now want to shrink the file back down to 100m. The
> > problem is that after the rollback segments got created, additional
extents
> > were allocated at the end of the datafile. Is it possible to move those
> > extents to the beginning of the free spaces in the file and then shrink
the
> > file. Those extents belong to SYS objects.
> >
> > TIA
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> > Chuck Hamilton
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> I had a similar problem (when someone wrote an endless-loop in a plsql
> code generator - several million objects later...)
>
> A consultation with Oracle support was concluded with: "Take a backup,
> do it, and restore if it does not work". They did suggest doing as much
> as possible to avoid recursive txns (disable ddl triggers et al)
>
> hth
> connor
>
>
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