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Oracle Tutorials - Bring a Tablespace Offline

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How To Bring a Tablespace Offline?

If you want to stop users using a tablespace, you can bring it offline using the ALTER TABLESPACE ... OFFLINE statement as shown in the following script:

SQL> connect HR/fyicenter
Connected.

SQL> CREATE TABLESPACE my_space 
  2  DATAFILE '/temp/my_space.dbf' SIZE 10M;
Tablespace created.

SQL> ALTER TABLESPACE my_space OFFLINE NORMAL;
Tablespace altered.

After bringing a tablespace offline, you can backup or rename the data file safely.

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1. What Is an Oracle Tablespace?
2. What Is an Oracle Data File?
3. How a Tablespace Is Related to Data Files?
4. How a Database Is Related to Tablespaces?
5. How To View Tablespaces in the Current Database?
6. What Are the Predefined Tablespaces in a Database?
7. How To View Data Files in the Current Database?
8. How To Create a New Oracle Data File?
9. How To Create a New Tablespace?
10. How To Rename a Tablespace?
11. How To Drop a Tablespace?
12. What Happens to Data Files If a Tablespace Is Dropped?
13. How To Create a Table in a Specific Tablespace?
14. How To See Free Space of Each Tablespace?
15. How To Bring a Tablespace Offline?
16. How To Bring a Tablespace Online?
17. How To Add Another Datafile to a Tablespace?
18. What Happens If You Lost a Data File?
19. How Remove Data Files before Opening a Database?