The
create tablespace
statement is used to create a
tablespace.
Permanent tablespace
create tablespace ts_something logging datafile '/dbf1/ts_sth.dbf' size 32m autoextend on next 32m maxsize 2048m extent management local;
create tablespace data datafile '/home/oracle/databases/ora10/data.dbf' size 10M autoextend on maxsize 200M extent management local uniform size 64K;
Temporary tablespace
create temporary tablespace temp_mtr tempfile '/dbf1/mtr_temp01.dbf' size 32m autoextend on next 32m maxsize 2048m extent management local;
Note, a temporary tablespace has tempfiles, not
datafiles.
Undo tablespace
create undo tablespace ts_undo datafile '/dbf/undo.dbf' size 100M;
Misc
More than one
datafile can be created with a single create tablespace command:
create tablespace ts_sth datafile 'c:\xx\sth_01.dbf' size 4M autoextend off, 'c:\xx\sth_02.dbf' size 4M autoextend off, 'c:\xx\sth_03.dbf' size 4M autoextend off logging extent management local;
Adding a
tablespace to a database is a structural change that
requires a backup.