Oracle Data File Temp Tempfile Datafile

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Oracle Data & Temp Files

Version 11.1

General Information

Dependencies

file$	ts$	x$ktfbhc
dba_data_files	dba_temp_files
dba_free_space	gv$dbfile

Alter Data Files

Resize An Existing Datafile

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '<data_file_name | data_file_number>'
RESIZE <n> K|M|G|T|P|E;

Beware that you can only decrease the size of the datafile with the space that is free between highest used block of the datafile and the last block of the file. If the tablespace is fragmented, the free spaces between extents cannot be deallocated this way. Check dba_free_space for details.

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'c:\oracle\oradata\orabase ools02.tom'
RESIZE 50M;

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'c:\oracle\oradata\orabase ools03.dan'
RESIZE 50M;

Add A Datafile To An Existing Tablespace

ALTER TABLESPACE <tablespace_name>
ADD DATAFILE '<path_and_file_name>' SIZE <n>K|M|G|T|P|E;

ALTER TABLESPACE tools
ADD DATAFILE 'c:\oracle\oradata\orabase ools02.tom' SIZE 20M;

ALTER DATABASE
CREATE DATAFILE '<path_and_file_name>' SIZE <n>K|M|G|T|P|E
AS '<tablespace_name>';

ALTER DATABASE
CREATE DATAFILE 'c:\oracle\oradata\orabase\uwdata03.dbf' SIZE 1G
AS 'UWDATA';

Move Tablespace Datafile

Can also be used to move SYSTEM, SYSAUX, and TEMP tablespace files

SHUTDOWN

STARTUP MOUNT

-- Copy the datafile to it's new location

ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE
'<old_full_path>' TO '<new_full_path>';

-- then

ALTER DATABASE OPEN;

-- then you can safely delete the old datafile.

conn / as sysdba

shutdown immediate;

startup mount

host

$ cp /u01/oradata/tools01.dbf /u06/oradata/tools01.dbf

$ exit

alter database rename file '/u01/oradata/tools01.dbf'
to '/u06/oradata/tools01.dbf';

alter database open

host

$ rm /u01/oradata/tools.01.dbf

$ exit

Autoextend

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE <'data_file_name' | data_file_number>
AUTOEXTEND <OFF | ON [NEXT SIZE <n>K|M|G|T|P|E
MAXSIZE <UNLIMITED | <n>K|M|G|T|P|E>;

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'u06/oradata/tools01.dbf' AUTOEXTEND OFF;

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'u06/oradata/tools01.dbf' AUTOEXTEND ON MAXSIZE UNLIMITED;

Online / Offline

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE <'data_file_name' | data_file_number>
<ONLINE | OFFLINE [FOR DROP]>;

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'u06/oradata/tools01.dbf' OFFLINE;

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'u06/oradata/tools01.dbf' ONLINE;

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'u06/oradata/tools01.dbf' OFFLINE FOR DROP;

Alter Temp Files

Resize

alter database tempfile <temp file name>
resize <integer> K|M|G|T|P|E;

ALTER DATABASE TEMPFILE 'temp01.dbf' RESIZE 100M;

Drop

alter database tempfile <temp file name>
drop including datafiles;

ALTER DATABASE TEMPFILE 'temp01.dbf' DROP INCLUDING DATAFILES;

Drop Data File

Drop A Datafile

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '<file_name_or_file_number>' [offline] DROP;

set linesize 121
col file_name format a80

SELECT file_name, SUM(bytes)/1024/1024 DF_SIZE
FROM dba_data_files
GROUP BY file_name;

ALTER TABLESPACE users ADD datafile SIZE 50M;

SELECT file_name, SUM(bytes)/1024/1024 DF_SIZE
FROM dba_data_files
GROUP BY file_name;

ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\ORADATA\UKOUG\DATAFILE\O1_MF_USERS_35HCKNFO_.DBF'
OFFLINE DROP;

or

ALTER TABLESPACE users DROP DATAFILE 'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\ORADATA\UKOUG\DATAFILE\O1_MF_USERS_35HCKNFO_.DBF';

Data File Related Queries

Data File Information

set linesize 121
col file_name format a45
col tablespace_name format a20

SELECT file_name, tablespace_name,
bytes/1024/1024 MB, blocks
FROM dba_data_files
UNION ALL
SELECT file_name, tablespace_name,
bytes/1024/1024 MB, blocks
FROM dba_temp_files
ORDER BY tablespace_name, file_name;

Data File Block Sizing

-- as root created a file system with block size 1024

mkfs.ext3 -b 1024 /dev/sda3

-- mounted it

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/test

-- and issued

iostat -d -t -x /dev/sda3

-- in another shell

dd if=/tmp/foo of=/mnt/test/foo2 bs=1024k

-- the results

Time: 08:47:05
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s
avgrq-sz
avgqu-sz await svctm %util
/dev/sda3 0.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 4.00 0.00 2.00 0.00
2.00
0.10 50.00 50.00 1.00

Time: 08:47:10
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s
avgrq-sz
avgqu-sz await svctm %util
/dev/sda3 0.00 10200.40 0.20 83.60 0.40 20568.00 0.20
10284.00 245.
45 67.92 810.50 31.03 26.00

-- do the math

wsec/s / wrqm/s = 20568.00 / 10200.40 = 2,017

-- Roughly two sectors of 512 bytes. So write were in blocks of 1K.

Uneven Datafile Usage Within A Tablespace

CREATE TABLESPACE bowie_data
DATAFILE 'c:\bowie\bowie_data01.dbf' size 10m,
'c:\bowie\bowie_data02.dbf' size 10m,
'c:\bowie\bowie_data03.dbf' size 10m
uniform size 64;

col segment_name format a30

SELECT file_id, file_name
FROM dba_data_files
WHERE tablespace_name = 'BOWIE_DATA';

CREATE TABLE one (x NUMBER) TABLESPACE bowie_data;
CREATE TABLE two (x NUMBER) TABLESPACE bowie_data;
CREATE TABLE three (x NUMBER) TABLESPACE bowie_data;
CREATE TABLE four (x NUMBER) TABLESPACE bowie_data;

Now we've create 4 tables in this tablespace. Let's see which data file they were placed in ...

SELECT segment_name, file_id
FROM dba_extents
WHERE tablespace_name = 'BOWIE_DATA';

Note that *all* tables have their first extent created in the *first* data file defined to the tablespace.

Now lets grow these tables and see what happens next.

ALTER TABLE one ALLOCATE EXTENT;
ALTER TABLE two ALLOCATE EXTENT;
ALTER TABLE three ALLOCATE EXTENT;
ALTER TABLE four ALLOCATE EXTENT;

SELECT segment_name, file_id
FROM dba_extents
WHERE tablespace_name = 'BOWIE_DATA'
ORDER BY segment_name;

... and the second extent of each table has been created in the second data file of the tablespace.

If a particular table were to keep growing ...

ALTER TABLE four ALLOCATE EXTENT;
ALTER TABLE four ALLOCATE EXTENT;

SELECT segment_name, file_id
FROM dba_extents
WHERE tablespace_name = 'BOWIE_DATA'
ORDER BY segment_name;

You can see how the extents get allocated to the data files in a round robin fashion. But the first extent is allocate to the first data file (providing it has sufficent space) ...

CREATE TABLE five (x NUMBER) TABLESPACE bowie_data;

SELECT segment_name, file_id
FROM dba_extents
WHERE tablespace_name = 'BOWIE_DATA'
ORDER BY segment_name;

Let's add a new data file. What happens now ...

ALTER TABLESPACE bowie_data
ADD DATAFILE 'c:\bowie\bowie_data04.dbf' SIZE 10M;

ALTER TABLE four ALLOCATE EXTENT;

SELECT segment_name, file_id
FROM dba_extents
WHERE tablespace_name = 'BOWIE_DATA'
ORDER BY segment_name;

A new extent is added to table four. And uses the new datafile.

ALTER TABLE four ALLOCATE EXTENT;

SELECT segment_name, file_id
FROM dba_extents
WHERE tablespace_name = 'BOWIE_DATA'
ORDER BY segment_name;

ALTER TABLE four ALLOCATE EXTENT;

SELECT segment_name, file_id
FROM dba_extents
WHERE tablespace_name = 'BOWIE_DATA'
ORDER BY segment_name;

... and now the new file is used. The files are still used in a round robin fashion with the new file slipping in.

Note how file 16 is the *most* used file and file 19 is the least. If I were to allocate several new tables that were only 1 or 2 extents in size, see how file 16 would be the one to be most "filled".

Related Topics

Tablespaces

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