No easy way to drop a datafile.
Your best bet would be to resize the datafile to a very small size
( eg 10k).
(This will cause a trivial performance overhead since it has to
checkpoint an extra
file. But not even worth mentioning)
And then add another datafile to this TableSpace or rebuild the
tablespace when
you have some time with the appropiate size datafiles.
Regards
Suhen
> Pretty sure that ain't a Oracle7 feature....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Thomas F
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>
> Tom,
>
> Or,
> - create a new tablespace
> - ALTER TABLE {table_name} MOVE {new_tablespace)
> - alter index {all indexes that belong to this table) rebuild
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> Tom,
>
> Regrettably there is no way that you can drop a datafile from a
> tablespace.
> Your stuck with having to drop the entire tablespace. If you can export
> and
> import that's great. Otherwise try creating a new tablespace, copying the
> table
> (with a new name) into the new tablespace, dropping the original table and
> tablespace, and then rename the table back to it's old name. Don't forget
> the
> grants as well.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
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> Dear gurus:
>
> I just added a data file to a big tablespace (11GB) that has only one
> table. Unfortunately, when it was being backed up, the file head head
> corrupted. I don't have any backup of this file. I found that there is
> no data in this file yet. So I want to drop the file from the
> tablespace. As I know, to drop a data file, I have to export the data,
> drop the tablespace and recreate it, and then import data back to
> the tablespace. However, since our users can't stop using the table,
> I won't have enough down time to do that.
>
> Is there anyway I can quickly drop a data file from a tablespace?
>
> Don't tell me using "alter database datafile '...' offline drop" command.
> It won't work.
>
> I am working on Oracle 7.3.4.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Xie
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