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Re: Free disk space on Oracle volumes ?

From: Dusan Bolek <pagesflames_at_usa.net>
Date: 26 Jul 2002 03:22:58 -0700
Message-ID: <1e8276d6.0207260222.370cad71@posting.google.com>


yong321_at_yahoo.com (Yong Huang) wrote in message news:<b3cb12d6.0207241428.67e62ee7_at_posting.google.com>...
> How about this? It's going to be inefficient even though the file is
> sparse:
>
> for i in 10 .. 100000 loop
> execute immediate 'create temporary tablespace aa tempfile
> '/theFS/aa.dbf' size ' || i || 'm;';
> -- drop aa if no exception, otherwise report the free space left as
> the number used
> end loop;

No one ask me to write my opinion on this. However, I tried to find some place where phrase "bloody stupid idea" fits. In this case this phrase fits perfectly. :-)

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Received on Fri Jul 26 2002 - 05:22:58 CDT

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