Managing Availability of Tablespaces in Oracle

Managing Availability of Tablespaces in Oracle

Taking tablespaces Offline or Online

You can take an online tablespace offline so that it is temporarily unavailable for general use. The rest of the database remains open and available for users to access data. Conversely, you can bring an offline tablespace online to make the schema objects within the tablespace available to database users. The database must be open to alter the availability of a tablespace.

We usually take tablespaces offline for maintenance purposes.
To alter the availability of a tablespace, use the ALTER TABLESPACE statement. You must have the ALTER TABLESPACE or MANAGE TABLESPACE system privilege.

To Take a Tablespace Offline give the following command
SQL>alter tablespace ica offline;

To again bring it back online give the following command.
SQL>alter tablespace ica online;

To take individual datafile offline type the following command
SQL>alter database datafile ‘/u01/oracle/ica/ica_tbs01.dbf’ offline;

Again to bring it back online give the following command
SQL> alter database datafile ‘/u01/oracle/ica/ica_tbs01.dbf’ online;

Note: You can’t take individual datafiles offline it the database is running in NOARCHIVELOG mode.  

If the datafile has become corrupt or missing when the database is running in NOARCHIVELOG mode then you can only drop it by giving the following command
SQL>alter database datafile ‘/u01/oracle/ica/ica_tbs01.dbf’ offline for drop;


Making a Tablespace Read only

Making a tablespace read-only prevents write operations on the datafiles in the tablespace. The primary purpose of read-only tablespaces is to eliminate the need to perform backup and recovery of large, static portions of a database. Read-only tablespaces also provide a way to protecting historical data so that users cannot modify it. Making a tablespace read-only prevents updates on all tables in the tablespace, regardless of a user's update privilege level.

To make a tablespace read only
SQL>alter tablespace ica read only
Again to make it read write
SQL>alter tablespace ica read write;


Renaming Tablespaces

Using the RENAME TO clause of the ALTER TABLESPACE, you can rename a permanent or temporary tablespace. For example, the following statement renames the user’s tablespace:
ALTER TABLESPACE users RENAME TO usersts;
The following affect the operation of this statement:
  • The COMPATIBLE parameter must be set to 10.0 or higher.
  • If the tablespace being renamed is the SYSTEM tablespace or the SYSAUX tablespace, then it will not be renamed and an error is raised.
  • If any datafile in the tablespace is offline, or if the tablespace is offline, then the tablespace is not renamed and an error is raised.
Dropping Tablespaces

You can drop a tablespace and its contents (the segments contained in the tablespace) from the database if the tablespace and its contents are no longer required. You must have the DROP TABLESPACE system privilege to drop a tablespace.

Caution: Once a tablespace has been dropped, the data in the tablespace is not recoverable. Therefore, make sure that all data contained in a tablespace to be dropped will not be required in the future. Also, immediately before and after dropping a tablespace from a database, back up the database completely.

To drop a tablespace give the following command.
SQL> drop tablespace ica;

This will drop the tablespace only if it is empty. If it is not empty and if you want to drop it anyhow then add the following keyword

SQL>drop tablespace ica including contents;

This will drop the tablespace even if it is not empty. But the datafiles will not be deleted you have to use operating system command to delete the files.

But if you include datafiles keyword then, the associated datafiles will also be deleted from the disk.
SQL>drop tablespace ica including contents and datafiles;

Viewing Information aboutTablespaces and Datafiles

Oracle has provided many Data dictionaries to view information about tablespaces and datafiles.  Some of them are:

To view information about Tablespaces in a database give the following query
SQL> select * from dba_tablespaces
SQL> select * from v$tablespace;

To view information about Datafiles
SQL> select * from dba_data_files;
SQL> select * from v$datafile;

To view information about Tempfiles
SQL> select * from dba_temp_files;
SQL> select * from v$tempfile;

To view information about free space in datafiles
SQL> select * from dba_free_space;

To view information about free space in tempfiles
SQL> select * from V$TEMP_SPACE_HEADER;

Renaming or Relocating Datafiles belonging to aSingle Tablespace

You can rename datafiles to either change their names or relocate them.
To rename or relocate datafiles belonging to a Single Tablespace do the following.
1.       Take the tablespace offline
2.       Rename or Relocate the datafiles using operating system command
3.       Give the ALTER TABLESPACE with RENAME DATAFILE option to change the filenames within the Database.
4.       Bring the tablespace Online
For Example suppose you have a tablespace users with the following datafiles
        /u01/oracle/ica/usr01.dbf’
        /u01/oracle/ica/usr02.dbf’

Now you want to relocate /u01/oracle/ica/usr01.dbf’  to ‘/u02/oracle/ica/usr01.dbf’ and want to rename ‘/u01/oracle/ica/usr02.dbf’ to ‘/u01/oracle/ica/users02.dbf’  then follow the given the steps
1.       Bring the tablespace offline
SQL> alter tablespace users offline;
2.       Copy the file to new location using o/s command.
$ cp /u01/oracle/ica/usr01.dbf  /u02/oracle/ica/usr01.dbf’
Rename the file ‘/u01/oracle/ica/usr02.dbf’ to ‘/u01/oracle/ica/users02.dbf’ using o/s command.
$ mv  /u01/oracle/ica/usr02.dbf /u01/oracle/ica/users02.dbf
3.       Now start SQLPLUS and type the following command to rename and relocate these files
 SQL> alter tablespace users rename file  ‘/u01/oracle/ica/usr01.dbf’, 

        ‘/u01/oracle/ica/usr02.dbf’ to     ‘/u02/oracle/ica/usr01.dbf’,
             ’/u01/oracle/ica/users02.dbf’;
4.       Now bring the tablespace  Online
SQL> alter tablespace users online;

Procedure for Renaming and Relocating Datafiles in Multiple Tablespaces

You can rename and relocate datafiles in one or more tablespaces using the ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE statement. This method is the only choice if you want to rename or relocate datafiles of several tablespaces in one operation. You must have the ALTER DATABASE system privilege

To rename datafiles in multiple tablespaces, follow these steps.
1.      Ensure that the database is mounted but closed.

2.      Copy the data files to be renamed to their new locations and new names, using the operating system.

3.      Use ALTER DATABASE to rename the file pointers in the database control file.


For example, the following statement renames the datafiles/u02/oracle/rbdb1/sort01.dbf and /u02/oracle/rbdb1/user3.dbf to /u02/oracle/rbdb1/temp01.dbf and /u02/oracle/rbdb1/users03.dbf, respectively:
ALTER DATABASE
    RENAME FILE '/u02/oracle/rbdb1/sort01.dbf',
                '/u02/oracle/rbdb1/user3.dbf'
             TO '/u02/oracle/rbdb1/temp01.dbf',
                '/u02/oracle/rbdb1/users03.dbf;
Always provide complete filenames (including their paths) to properly identify the old and new datafiles. In particular, specify the old datafile names exactly as they appear in the DBA_DATA_FILES view.

4.      Back up the database. After making any structural changes to a database, always perform an immediate and complete backup.


5.      Start the Database


Ref: http://www.oracle-dba-online.com


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