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How can I make free space after "delete" operation ?? [message #127302]

Mon, 11 July 2005 03:04

babita
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Registered: July 2005
Location: India

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Hi,
we have performed some delete operations on the schema. It shud freed some space from datafile, but as we used "delete" space is still allocated to the object.
How can I freed this unused space? (analyze/COALESCE...??)
Can I make free space on HD also?
Thanks in advance.

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Re: How can I make free space after "delete" operation ?? [message #127307 is a reply to message #127302]

Mon, 11 July 2005 03:24

girish.rohini
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Registered: April 2005
Location: Delhi (India)

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HI

Delete command doesn't deallocate any storage space already allocated to the segment concerned as it doesn't move the HWM for the segment.

Regds
Girish

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Re: How can I make free space after "delete" operation ?? [message #127316 is a reply to message #127307]

Mon, 11 July 2005 04:28

babita
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Registered: July 2005
Location: India

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ya that's true.
I want to know is there any way to freed up the space after deletion.
Thanks.

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Re: How can I make free space after "delete" operation ?? [message #127357 is a reply to message #127316]

Mon, 11 July 2005 06:47

girish.rohini
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try moving table to new tablespace & then check.

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Re: How can I make free space after "delete" operation ?? [message #127400 is a reply to message #127357]

Mon, 11 July 2005 09:34

macdba
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Registered: May 2005
Location: US

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alter table table_name move;
This will release the space and set the high water mark to the new value.
After this make sure to rebuild indexes for this table since indexes become invalid.

rgds
--Mak

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Re: How can I make free space after "delete" operation ?? [message #127407 is a reply to message #127302]

Mon, 11 July 2005 09:51

smartin
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Registered: March 2005
Location: Jacksonville, Florida

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And just to add, your datafiles will stay the same size, even with the segments getting smaller via a move or other operation. Datafiles are meant to be allocated once and be fixed (unless autoallocate) so that oracle isn't constantly getting and freeing space from and to the operating system.

Check out the concepts guide for more details.

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Re: How can I make free space after "delete" operation ?? [message #127520 is a reply to message #127407]

Tue, 12 July 2005 01:25

babita
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Registered: July 2005
Location: India

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Thanks to all 4 u'r replies.

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