RE: Weird Objects in DBA_SEGMENTS

But emptying the recycle bin doesn't get rid of them...  

SQL> purge recyclebin;      

From: Riyaj Shamsudeen [mailto:riyaj.shamsudeen_at_gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:46 PM To: April Wells
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Weird Objects in DBA_SEGMENTS  

They are recycle bin objects. Query dba_recyclebin to see them..

Thanks
Riyaj

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:42 PM, April Wells <awells_at_netspend.com> wrote:

I have spent the morning cleaning out a tablespace in an attempt to reclaim 800 GB of space and clean up my production data warehouse. To this end... I ran a BUNCH of  

ALTER TABLE <table> move tablespace <tablespace>;  

It "appeared" clean... nothing in dba_tables or dba_indexes.  

However, my life can't be that simple.  

The paranoid dba on my left shoulder urged me to look at dba_segments... so I did.  

select owner, segment_name, partition_name, tablespace_name, segment_type from dba_segments where tablespace_name = 'STAGEDAT01';  

there are a bunch of segments named similar to  

BIN$Rxl0mZVtGWjgRAADupYzGQ==$0  

They "apparently" are tables and indexes.  

There are, however, apparently no actual extents... because

select * from dba_extents where tablespace_name = 'STAGEDAT01';

returns only the plan table that I want to drop anyway  

anyone have any ideas on what these BIN segments are?  

Thanks in advance.

ajw  

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