How to create Oracle tablespace files?

1 year ago
Benjamin Taylor
2 minutes

To create an Oracle table space file, you can follow these steps:

  1. Login to the Oracle instance on the database server.
  2. Open SQL*Plus or any other SQL client tool.
  3. Log in to the database using a user with administrative privileges, such as logging in as the sys user.
  4. The syntax for creating a new tablespace file is as follows:
  5. Create a tablespace with the specified name, datafile path, size, and optional settings for autoextend, logging, online status, and permanence.
  6. Name of the tablespace to be created.
  7. file_path: Path to the tablespace file.
  8. file_size: the initial size of the table space file.
  9. AUTOEXTEND ON: Specifies that the datafile in the tablespace can increase automatically.
  10. NEXT file_increment: specifies the automatic increment size of the tablespace files.
  11. MAXSIZE max_size: Specifies the maximum size of the tablespace files.
  12. LOGGING: Specifies tablespace files for logging.
  13. ONLINE: Specified table space files are available online.
  14. PERMANENT: specifies the tablespace as a permanent tablespace.
  15. TEMPORARY: Specifies the tablespace as a temporary tablespace.
  16. To create a permanent tablespace file named userspace with a size of 100MB, you can use the following command:
  17. Create a tablespace called “userspace” with a datafile located at ‘/u01/oracle/data/userspace01.dbf’ and a size of 100MB, set to autoextend in increments of 10MB up to a maximum size of 500MB. Ensure it is set to logging, online, and permanent.
  18. After executing the above command, the tablespace file will be created and available for use.

Please note that creating a tablespace file requires a user with administrative privileges. If you do not have these privileges, please contact the system administrator or database administrator for assistance.

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