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How To Drop a Tablespace?

If you have an existing tablespace and you don't want it anymore. You can delete a tablespace by using the DROP TABLESPACE statement as shown in the example below:

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

SQL> DROP TABLESPACE my_space;
Tablespace dropped.

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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?