How to drop a temporary tablespace in db2?
To remove temporary tablespace, you can follow the steps below:
- Firstly, make sure that no applications or sessions connected to the database are using the temporary tablespace. You can use the following command to check for active connections:
- Retrieve the APPLICATION_HANDLE, APPLICATION_ID, and AGENT_ID from the table SYSIBMADM.SNAPDB_APPL_INFO where the DB_NAME is equal to ‘
‘. - Please wait for any active connections to terminate or close them by terminating the relevant applications.
- In DB2 console or command line interface, use the following command to make the temporary tablespace unavailable:
- Put the temporary tablespace named
offline. - Please replace
with the name of the temporary tablespace you want to delete. - Ensure that the temporary tablespace is set to offline before using the following command to delete it.
- Delete the tablespace named
. - Please replace
with the name of the temporary tablespace you wish to delete. - After dropping the temporary tablespace, you can verify if it has been successfully deleted by using the following command.
- Retrieve the tablespace name from the SYSIBMADM.TBSP_UTILIZATION table where the tablespace type is ‘T’.
- If the temporary tablespace is successfully dropped, this command will not return the name of the dropped temporary tablespace.
Please be cautious when dropping temporary table spaces to ensure there are no active connections using it. Additionally, dropping temporary table spaces may result in transactions currently running in the database to fail. Before proceeding with the delete operation, make sure to back up the database and related data.