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Datafile Management: Steps To Make Datafile Off Line and Online

This document outlines steps for making a datafile offline and online, resizing a datafile, adding a datafile to a tablespace, and renaming a datafile in an Oracle database. The steps involve using SQL commands like ALTER DATABASE, ALTER TABLESPACE, and queries to V$DATAFILE and DBA_DATA_FILES to modify datafile properties and monitor their status and attributes.

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Datafile Management: Steps To Make Datafile Off Line and Online

This document outlines steps for making a datafile offline and online, resizing a datafile, adding a datafile to a tablespace, and renaming a datafile in an Oracle database. The steps involve using SQL commands like ALTER DATABASE, ALTER TABLESPACE, and queries to V$DATAFILE and DBA_DATA_FILES to modify datafile properties and monitor their status and attributes.

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DataFile Management

Posted by Narashim Reddy .R on August 16, 2009

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Steps to Make datafile off line and online:


SQL> select file#,ts#,status,bytes,name from v$datafile where file#=10;
FILE# TS# STATUS BYTES
- - - NAME

10 5 ONLINE 10485760
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users01.dbf
SQL> alter database datafile 10 offline;
Database altered.
SQL> select file#,ts#,status,bytes,name from v$datafile where file#=10;
FILE# TS# STATUS BYTES
- - - NAME

10 5 RECOVER 10485760
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users01.dbf
SQL> recover datafile 10;
Media recovery complete.
SQL> select file#,ts#,status,bytes,name from v$datafile where file#=10;
FILE# TS# STATUS BYTES
- - - NAME

10 5 OFFLINE 10485760
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users01.dbf
SQL> alter database datafile 10 online;
Database altered.
SQL> select file#,ts#,status,bytes,name from v$datafile where file#=10;

FILE# TS# STATUS BYTES


- - - NAME

10 5 ONLINE 10485760
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users01.dbf
Steps for Resizing the Datafile:
SQL> select file_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name=USERS;
FILE_NAME
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users.dbf
SQL> select tablespace_name,bytes/1024/1024 from dba_data_files where
tablespace_name=USERS;
TABLESPACE_NAME BYTES/1024/1024

USERS 100
SQL> alter database
datafile/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users.dbf resize 50m;
Database altered.
SQL> select tablespace_name,bytes/1024/1024 from dba_data_files where
tablespace_name=USERS;
TABLESPACE_NAME BYTES/1024/1024

USERS 50
Steps for adding a Datafile to Tablespace:
SQL> select file_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name=USERS;
FILE_NAME

/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users.dbf
SQL> alter tablespace
users add datafile/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users1.dbf size 10m;
Tablespace altered.
SQL> select file_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name=USERS;
FILE_NAME

/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users.dbf
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users1.dbf

Steps for Rename the Datafile:


SQL> select file_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name=USERS;
FILE_NAME

/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users.dbf
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users1.dbf
SQL> alter tablespace users offline;
Tablespace altered.
SQL> !

[oracle@reddy ~]$ cd tarun4/datafiles/


[oracle@reddy datafiles]$ mv users1.dbf users01.dbf
SQL> alter tablespace
users rename datafile/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users1.dbf to
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users01.dbf;
Tablespace altered.
SQL> alter tablespace users online;
Tablespace altered.
SQL> select file_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name=USERS;
FILE_NAME

/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users.dbf
/home/oracle/tarun4/datafiles/users01.dbf

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