Re: Fastest way to drop tablespace

"suri" <suriawan.limantara_at_googlemail.com> schreef in bericht news:62ebccc9-1035-4f77-a2d7-868a747a0777_at_u36g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> we have very big tablespace 300GB containing 300000 tables and we want
> to drop them. We don' t need
> the contents, so no need to recover them.
>
> What is the fastest way and less load for the DB to drop it? We have
> Oracle 9.2.0.8 on HP-UX 11.11
>
> We did 2 small tests on lab. The first one is the usual "drop
> tablespace including contents" and the 2nd one
> we put the DB files to offline first and then drop the tablespace. We
> traced both methods. The 2nd method is
> much faster. The different to the first method is that drops the
> tablespace without take the db files offline has
> lot of "enqueue" wait events.
>
> We are wondering what is Oracle doing internally in both methods? and
> is it so that dropping a tablespace by
> first taking the DB file offline is always faster.
>
> Thanks,
> Suri

Just curious (absolutely no criticism): how do you get 300000 tables?

Shakespeare Received on Fri Apr 04 2008 - 10:25:50 CDT