I've seen some hacks in the past involving dropping all segments for that tspace, direct deletes from fet$ and then dropping the tablespace...
Not for the faint hearted, certainly not supported and you never heard it from me :-) Cheers Connor --- "Casey A. Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When trying to select * from > DBA_FREE_SPACE_COALESCED the query hangs. It also > hangs when trying to calculate free space from the > DBA_FREE_SPACE view. I looked in the sys.fet$ table > and found that the TEMP tablespace has 21423 > entries and I believe this is my problem. > > Now for my questions. > > 1. Is coalescing the best solution for this > problem? > 1. Can I coalesce the tablespace without changing > it to a permanent tablespace? > 2. Is there a faster way to drop the exents then > the alter tablespace coalesce command? I ran it for > about 10 minutes and canceled it. > 3. Is this normal and do I need to coalesce the > TEMP tablespace on a regular basis to avoid this > happening again? > > > Thanks, > CAJ > ===== Connor McDonald http://www.oracledba.co.uk (mirrored at http://www.oradba.freeserve.co.uk) "Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Connor=20McDonald?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
