Using Accounting Setup Manager

Chapter 3
Managing Database Storage

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

• Describe the storage of table row data in blocks
• Create and manage tablespaces
• Obtain tablespace information

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 How Table Data Is Stored

Columns Blocks

Table A Table B

Rows

Segment Segment
Table
Tablespace

Row piece Extent

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 Database Block: Contents

Block header
Growth
Free space

Row data

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 Exploring the Storage Structure

Click the links to view

detailed information.

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Creating a New Tablespace

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 Creating a New Tablespace

Choose the appropriate

Storage Type

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Storage for Tablespaces

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 Tablespaces in the Preconfigured Database

• SYSTEM • UNDOTBS1
• SYSAUX • USERS
• TEMP • EXAMPLE (optional)

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Altering a Tablespace

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Actions with Tablespaces

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Dropping Tablespaces

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Viewing Tablespace Information

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Viewing Tablespace Contents

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 Enlarging the Database

You can enlarge the database in the following ways:

• Creating a new tablespace
• Adding a data file to an existing smallfile tablespace
• Increasing the size of a data file
• Providing for the dynamic growth of a data file
Database

SYSTEM INVENTORY
tablespace tablespace

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 Quiz

Bigfile Tablespaces must have 1 file of at least 100

MB.
1. True
2. False

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

• Describe the storage of table row data in blocks
• Create and manage tablespaces
• Obtain tablespace information

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 Practice 3 Overview:
Managing Database Storage Structures

This practice covers the following topics:

• Creating tablespaces
• Gathering information about tablespaces

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