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How to reclaim unused space in an Oracle Database?
Reclaiming Unused Space with Oracle ASM. Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is essentially an Oracle-managed file system which manages all database data files, redo logs, control files, backup sets – essentially everything except for the Oracle software and configuration files.
What’s the best way to reclaim unused space?
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Is there a command to reclaim space from a VM?
ESXi supports the space reclamation command, also called SCSI unmap command, that originates from a VMFS datastore or a VM guest operating system. The command helps thin-provisioned storage arrays to reclaim unused space from the VMFS datastore and thin virtual disks on the datastore.
How can I reclaim space from my datafiles?
In case of truncate, if you truncate some big size tables then it will release space from the datafiles but space will not be visible at the ASM or file system level because high watermark of the datafiles (max size) will not shift to backward position. But internally space will be there inside the datafiles. You can check from DBA_FREE_SPACE.
How to check unused space in SQL Server?
alter the column as VARBINARY (MAX). Then try copying the data into a completely new table. Check the new table size using sp_spaceused “tablename”. If you are satisfied with the unused space of table, then check the unused space of the database using the same command without specifying a table name.
Why is file space not reclaimed when data is deleted?
The reason is because file space allocated is not automatically reclaimed when data is deleted. Monitoring file space usage and shrinking data files may be necessary in the following scenarios: Allow data growth in an elastic pool when the file space allocated for its databases reaches the pool max size.
How to get rid of unused space in a file system?
A file system on thin-provisioned volume, when mounted with the discard flag will recognize when space becomes unused after a file is deleted, and issue trim commands to UNMAP the unused space.