Re: fixing tablespace fragmentation

At 05:52 AM 5/15/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>We are using dictionary managed tablespacse and yes I know I should use
>locally managed, but I am not allowed to change.
>
>I have significant fragmentation. I moved all my tables to a new
>tablespace, rebuild them properly so that they would not fragment(kept the
>Initial and Next extents the same) compacted them to PCTUSED 99 and
>PCTFREE 1(wont be any inserts,updates or deletes)
>
>I coalesced the tablespace, but was unable to resize it. My indexes are
>fragmented too. Is there a simple command similiar to
>
>ALTER TABLE MOVE
>
>in order to move my indexes to the new tablespace? What is the best method
>to move indexes to a new tablespace? Should I generate a script to rebuild
>them and then drop them?

alter index rebuild tablespace ...

In fact, you can change any storage parameter while rebuilding.

Wolfgang Breitling
Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA
Centrex Consulting Corporation
http://www.centrexcc.com

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