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    Table not giving up space problem

    9.2.0.4

    After computing statistics, a table has

    19,538 "BLOCKS"
    0 "NUM_ROWS"
    70 "EMPTY_BLOCKS"

    I tried "alter tablespace aq_1 coalesce", reanalyze .. no love.

    I've got 1 3gb datafile and I want to shrink it, there's no data in it.

    Any advice would be greatly apprciated.
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    Alter Table Move ..
    funky...

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    Since you want to shrink the size of your datafile, I would:
    1. alter table move to a new ts
    2. resize your existing ts
    3. alter table move back to original ts
    Jeff Hunter

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    If you do not want to move table. We can try EXP/IMP that table
    Raghu

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    Excellent suggestions. Thank you all.
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    created tablespace aq_2 to move tables from aq_1
    alter table el_webqueue move tablespace aq_2

    ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified

    I know it's busy and I can't do it online (like an index)

    What's keeping it from deallocating that space?
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    Do you tried .. It may be easy ..Create new table in existing TS or new TS

    Create table new_tab as select * from old_tab nologging;

    Drop old table
    Rename new table to old
    Raghu

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    Originally posted by KenEwald
    created tablespace aq_2 to move tables from aq_1
    alter table el_webqueue move tablespace aq_2

    ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified

    I know it's busy and I can't do it online (like an index)

    What's keeping it from deallocating that space?
    Does a process have the table locked?
    Is there a large uncomitted dml transaction on that table?

    As you know either commiting or rolling back that session should unlock the table.

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    It's an advanced queue - queue table.

    Messages are being consumed constantly from that queue table.

    Looks like I need to stop the subscribers to the queue then make the move.
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