Re: A strange space issue problem

Pl. check available contiguous space for extend in the tablespace and next extend size for the segment.
sujit
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 11:31 PM

> Hi all,
>
> I am experiencing a problem and am in need of your opnions.
>
> I have a table which has two columns, one is a NUMBER, one is a LONG RAW.
> The LONG RAW column is used to store
> a Java Serialized Object of a size about 5k to 12k. We get about 15000
rows
> per day. Each night the old rows are purged
> to make room for the new ones. This worked fine for over 6 months, except
> once the table failed to extend because
> the purge job was broken and we didn't have enough space.
>
> But about a week ago, I am starting to see ORA-1653: unable to extent
table
> message appear in alert log randomly. The
> purge job is running fine and did free up space. Only around 20 out of
> 15000 caused the error message. At first I suspect those
> failed ones must be trying to put in something BIG. But after the
developer
> debugged it, he told me the size of the binary
> is only between 6-8k of the failed ones which is no larger than the
others.
> So now I am really puzzled. I have one
> transaction that's trying to stick an 8k LONG ROW into the table and it
> failed with ORA-1653 and the next whole bunch
> of transactions going into the table successfully with the same size or
even
> bigger. And there is no delete happened between
> those transactions. Nothing is deleted from the database except the
nightly
> purge job which only deletes from that table.
>
> I suspect there is something that the developer didn't find out, but I
want
> to rule out the possibility that it's the database
> that's causing the problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions, comments, even if it's a shot in
the
> dark.
>
>
> Richard Ji
>
>
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