Use the DROP TABLESPACE statement to remove a tablespace from the database.
Prerequisites
You must have the DROP TABLESPACE system privilege. You cannot drop a tablespace if it contains any rollback segments holding active transactions.
Syntax
Keywords and parameters
tablespace
Specify the name of the tablespace to be dropped.
You can drop a tablespace regardless of whether it is online or
offline. Oracle recommends that you take the tablespace offline before
dropping it to ensure that no SQL statements in currently running
transactions access any of the objects in the tablespace.
You may want to alert any users who have been assigned the tablespace
as either a default or temporary tablespace. After the tablespace has
been dropped, these users cannot allocate space for objects or sort
areas in the tablespace. You can reassign users new default and
temporary tablespaces with the ALTER USER statement.
Restrictions:
You cannot drop the SYSTEM tablespace.
You cannot drop a tablespace that contains a domain index or any objects created by a domain index.
See Also:Oracle8i Data Cartridge Developer's Guide and for more information on domain indexes
INCLUDING CONTENTS
Specify INCLUDING CONTENTS to
drop all the contents of the tablespace. You must specify this clause
to drop a tablespace that contains any database objects. If you omit
this clause, and the tablespace is not empty, Oracle returns an error
and does not drop the tablespace.
Forpartitioned tables, DROP TABLESPACE will fail even if you specify INCLUDING CONTENTS, if the tablespace contains some, but not all,
Partitions of a range- or hash-partitioned table, or
Subpartitions of a composite-partitioned table.
Note: If all the partitions of a partitioned table reside in tablespace, DROP TABLESPACE ... INCLUDING CONTENTS will drop tablespace, as well as any associated index segments, LOB data segments, and LOB index segments in the other tablespace(s).
For a partitioned index-organized table,
if all the primary key index segments are in this tablespace, this
clause will also drop any overflow segments that exist in other
tablespaces. If some of the primary key index segments are not in this tablespace, the statement will fail. In that case, before you can drop the tablespace, you must use ALTER TABLE ... MOVE PARTITION
to move those primary key index segments into this tablespace, drop the
partitions whose overflow data segments are not in this tablespace, and
drop the partitioned index-organized table.
If the tablespace contains a container table or detail table of a materialized view, Oracle invalidates the materialized view.
If the tablespace contains a materialized view/snapshot log, Oracle drops this log and any other direct-load INSERT refresh information associated with the table.
CASCADE CONSTRAINTS
Specify CASCADE CONSTRAINTS to drop all referential integrity constraints from tables outside tablespace that refer to primary and unique keys of tables inside tablespace.
If you omit this clause and such referential integrity constraints
exist, Oracle returns an error and does not drop the tablespace.
Example
DROP TABLESPACE Example
The following statement drops the mfrg tablespace and all its contents:
DROP TABLESPACE mfrg
INCLUDING CONTENTS
CASCADE CONSTRAINTS;