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Shrinking datafiles

From: as <joe_at_isp.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:09:00 +0200
Message-ID: <7o6itv$l3m$1@hermes.is.co.za>


Is it possible to shrink a datafile? The scenario is as such - after a few months we have seen that our live tables are not going to grow anymore as we archive data to an archive database. We initially set the tables to a large initial extent but have dropped and imported them to new smaller tables. We have a lot more free space available in the tablespace but this is not needed.
Is it possible to reclaim this space in the physical file system by shrinking the .dbf datafile???

Thanking you in advance
Andre Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 06:09:00 CDT

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