Re: How to descrease size of System Tablespace?

One way to do it is to do an full export. Create a new instance with the proper
file sizes and import. There is probably a better way but I know this will work provided you hve enough disk.

Marc Lodico
mlodico_at_bigfoot.com

Heinz Waldherr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have to reorganize an Oracle 7.3 database.
>
> The problem is thatup to now all tables have been stored in the System
> tablespace.
> Therefore it has grown to the extent of 2.6 GB. Although I have moved all
> the stuff to other tabelspaces now, and there are only the SYS and SYSTEM
> related stuff left,
> I still can't resize the datafile ('file contains xxx blocks of data beyond
> requested RESIZE value'). Which seems a bit odd, as there's only 15 MB of
> data left.
>
> Anybody knows an easy way to get a normal SYSTEM file and tablespace?
>
> Thanks
>
> Heinz
Received on Thu Jan 15 1998 - 00:00:00 CET