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Thread: unable to create INITIAL extent

  1. #1
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    I am getting the following error when I try to do massive inserts & deletes.

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    The following error has occurred:

    ORA-01658: unable to create INITIAL extent for segment in tablespace SYSTEM
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    After doing some research, I tried the following:

    1) set maxextents unlimited
    2) set autoextend on
    3) coalesce

    The problem still persists. The maxsize of the datafile is unlimited and has 36GB of disk space left...

    Any suggestions?

    R
    On the other hand, you have different fingers.

  2. #2
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    so you are creating objects in tablespace SYSTEM, it´s a bad idea because tablespace SYSTEM is almost impossible to reorganize once it´s fragmentated
    But anyway unable to create initial extent means there arent enough contiguos freespace to acomodate the new initial extent, check the creation script

  3. #3
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    The default tablespace for this user is not system, it is "billing_ts"... Why would it create objects in the SYSTEM tablespace? How can I change this?

    R
    On the other hand, you have different fingers.

  4. #4
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    Also, check if any users have SYSTEM as their temporary tablespace with the DBA_USERS view.

    Good luck.
    David Knight
    OCP DBA 8i, 9i, 10g

  5. #5
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    That was it! The temporary tablespace was set to SYSTEM for this particular user. Thank you all so much

    R
    On the other hand, you have different fingers.

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