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Re: Can I "Compress" a tablespace?

From: Ben Ryan <benryan_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 20:32:47 GMT
Message-ID: <7r3spf$3k8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>


ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '/directory/filename' RESIZE number M; In article <7r3r2p$26e$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   Bob <meyer_b_at_my-deja.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at a tablespace that was apparantly allocated with no
> maxsize parameter. Because of an error in a script that imported data
> into a table, the tablespace has now filled up the entire disk (I
know,
> someone should have been monitoring it. But I just got involved last
> week, so its not my fault <g>).
>
> Anyway, we've dropeed and recreated, correctly, the offending table,
and
> corrected the script. Now comes the real question: Is it possible to
> reduce the physical size of the tablespace, so that we might fit
> something else on the same disk?
>
> This is a Solaris environment, if that makes any difference.
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> --
> Bob M.
>
> Step outside. The graphics are AMAZING!
>
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> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>

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Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Received on Tue Sep 07 1999 - 15:32:47 CDT

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