6

Storage Structures

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do

the following:
• Define the purpose of tablespaces and data files
• Create tablespaces
• Manage tablespaces
• Obtain tablespace information

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 Tablespaces and Data Files

Oracle stores data logically in tablespaces and

physically in data files.
• Tablespaces:
– Can belong to only one database at a time
– Consist of one or more data files
– Are further divided into logical units of storage
• Data files:
Database
– Can belong to only one
tablespace and one database Tablespace
– Are a repository for schema
object data
Data files

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 Space Management in Tablespaces

• Locally managed tablespace:

– Free extents are managed in the tablespace.
– Bitmap is used to record free extents.
– Each bit corresponds to a block or group of blocks.
– Bit value indicates free or used.
• Dictionary-managed tablespace:
– Free extents are managed by the data dictionary.
– Appropriate tables are updated when extents are
allocated or deallocated.

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 Creating a New Tablespace

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 Storage for Locally Managed Tablespaces

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 Tablespaces in the
Preconfigured Database

• SYSTEM • UNDOTBS1
• SYSAUX • USERS
• TEMP • EXAMPLE

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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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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

• Use tablespaces to separate data
• Create various types of tablespaces
• Manage tablespaces
• Obtain tablespace information

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 Practice 6:
Working with Tablespaces

This practice covers the following topics:

• Creating tablespaces
• Gathering information about tablespaces

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